The Information Futures Commission wants to know:
what’s your experience of finding, accessing, using and sharing scholarly information?
what would that experience be like in an ideal future, say 10 years from now?
Take our 15-minute survey and let us know!
Results of the survey will be published by the Information Futures Commission and used to inform discussions during [...]
Fifth-year arts-law student James5 (aka Devon Whittle) offers seven tips for new university students, including some comments about laptop usage, Endnote and personal information management. James5 is a student at the University of Melbourne.
In an Ockham’s Razor talk on ABC Radio, Sydney-based science writer Peter Macinnis describes his own ‘fact fossicking’ behavior when researching [...]
A study by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) concludes that “research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance [...]
This week’s VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne includes a series of presentations about designing physical and virtual spaces for scholarly activity.
Scholarly activity happens in many different kinds of places. Perhaps the most obvious is the library building.
What does a library look like? Here are photos of two libraries that look like giant bookshelves: temporary construction [...]
If you follow all the links, this post will take up about 30 minutes of your life. If you’re interested in the broad field of scholarly information, or if your focus is on user experience or customer service, I think you’ll find it an entertaining and thought-provoking half-hour.
Anthropologist Michael Wesch made a splash in the [...]