Posts Tagged ‘Library’
Learning Opportunity Around Open Access
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity before the year’s end. On Monday, December 19th at 11:00 a.m. (EST), they will offer the webinar titled, “Document Delivery in the Information Ecosystem.” The webinar will address issues in the world of scholarly publishing and open access. Scholarly output continues…
Read MoreTraditions
Tradition. Every time I hear this word, the scene from Fiddler on the Roof pops into my head. “You may ask how did these traditions start? I’ll tell you, I don’t know, but it’s tradition!” There are so many traditions and yet many don’t know where they come from. Some start out as one thing,…
Read MoreNew Partnership Enhances Learning
Credo has a reputation as the industry leader for information literacy, critical thinking, and research solutions. Recently they announced it is contributing features and enhancements to the open edX initiative, the leading nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Library Technology Guides brought this to our attention in their release, “Credo Commits to Learning…
Read MoreGetting to Know Your Libaries
Many believe academic libraries and publishers can work together more effectively to deliver on their shared core mission – to foster access to the world’s knowledge across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries for researchers, students and academics alike. This interesting information came to us from USKG in their opinion piece, “Managing relationships between libraries and publishers for…
Read MoreAcademic Journals Undergo Changes
Emerald Group Publishing has changed the names, broadened the scope and appointed new editors to some of its key Library & Information Science journals. Emerald Group Publishing brought this interesting news to us in their release, “Emerald re-envisions its Library & Information Science journals.” Eileen Breen, Publisher at Emerald, said: “Library Science is becoming more interdisciplinary and…
Read MoreOpen Processes Build Community
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to provide support in advocating open source and open access by providing additional financial support to Koha, the world’s first full-featured, free, open source Integrated Library System (ILS) that is used worldwide by more than 15,000 libraries of all types. Library Technology brought this news to us in their article, “EBSCO Information Services…
Read MoreNavigating Libraries Shouldn’t Be This Hard
In December of 2015 I took a break from business meetings and conferences and went over to visit the King’s Library at the British Museum. I had not been there in a while, but I knew that the 60,000 book collection of King George III was moved there in 1823. It is in a beautiful…
Read MoreChanges in Publishing
Scholarly publishing as an industry has changed, dare we say evolved, over the last few decades. Some of this was by design and some was forced adaptation to a new reality. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this information to our attention in their article, “A Quick Tour Around the World of Scholarly Journal Publishing.” This reality consists of…
Read MoreWho Wrote It?
In a surprising turn of events, Oxford University Press announced that its new edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare will credit Christopher Marlowe as a co-author on the three Henry VI plays. This interesting news came to us from NPR in their story, “Christopher Marlowe Officially Credited As Co-Author Of 3 Shakespeare Plays.” This is…
Read MoreNew President for Association of Research Libraries
Mary M. Case recently began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Prior to her election, Case served as the university librarian and dean of libraries at University of Illinois at Chicago. This news came to us from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in their release, “ARL Board of Directors 2016–2017 Elected by…
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