October 30, 2009 – 1:18 pm
nbsp;http://www.ala.org./ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/…
Very little literature exists on the nature of external reporting lines and funding structures of academic special libraries. This study focuses on academic health sciences libraries. The authors analyze information gathered from statistics published by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) from 1977 through 2007; an anonymous online survey of AAHSL library directors; [...]
October 30, 2009 – 1:17 pm
nbsp;http://www.ala.org./ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/…
Library faculty are often tenure track, requiring a record of significant publishing and service before achieving tenure. However, meaningful tools and methods for evaluating the scholarship of librarianship frequently fall short in providing an accurate picture of the scholarship of any particular candidate. The authors conducted a case study analyzing the research output of Oregon [...]
October 30, 2009 – 11:56 am
nbsp;http://www.eahil.net/journal/journal_200…
Challenges for library space – space for books or space for users; the case of Kuopio University Library J. Saarti Library spaces – new theatres of learning: a case study H. Todd Creating library space for users to work better, learn better, feel better S. Wood-Lamont, I. Robu The renovation of the Marquesa de Pelayo [...]
October 26, 2009 – 2:05 pm
Today, The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) and JISC have signed a three year partnership agreement to bring together the knowledge of UK library professionals with JISC’s expertise in digital technologies.
The two organisations will work towards a vision of everyone having equal access to the widest range of resources supporting world class [...]
October 21, 2009 – 9:58 am
nbsp;http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/acces…
A new collection of scholarly articles by MIT authors is openly available to the world today through MIT’s research repository DSpace@MIT. The launch of the “MIT Open Access Articles” collection coincides with International Open Access Week to reflect the spirit of an MIT faculty policy established in March 2009.
source: MIT Libraries news
October 21, 2009 – 9:44 am
nbsp;http://www.ilovelibraries.org/loveyourli…
a site of the American Library Association
examples; Cart Drill Team
Careers in Libraries
The Hollywood Librarian
Thomson-Gale Librareo Library Video Contest
Library Tours
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October 19, 2009 – 1:17 pm
nbsp;http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2009-1…
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 16 October 2009—Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Strategy, Columbus Metropolitan Library, spoke at OCLC on 9 October 2009.
A recording of her presentation and the discussion that followed, including video and slides, is now available as a streaming webcast. Individual files of the audio and slides are also available.
More information
Webcast of Helene [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:31 pm
nbsp;http://www.library.cornell.edu/news/0910…
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $385,000 to the libraries at Columbia University in New York City and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to support the development of an innovative partnership dubbed “2CUL.” This new relationship has the potential to become the most expansive collaboration to date between major research libraries.
Starting this fall, Cornell [...]
October 15, 2009 – 10:32 am
http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations
An audio archive of the October CNI Conversations session is now available at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations. During that discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium. Cliff also responded to participants’ questions about the Bamboo Project, the trend for university libraries and university presses to work together, and the [...]
October 13, 2009 – 7:10 am
The Research Information Network (RIN) and OCLC Research are undertaking a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US. This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process.
The project aims to [...]
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