November 19, 2009 – 11:53 am
nbsp;http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/013/downlo…
contents include
The Ripple Effect – extending the library’s reach
Web scale for libraries: a sea change for the 21st century
The first cooperative management service for libraries is an unparalleled effort guided by members
November 18, 2009 – 12:54 pm
nbsp;http://www.dlib.org/
contents include:
Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections
by Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility
by Samson C. Soong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
and lots more
October 21, 2009 – 10:18 am
nbsp;http://www.educause.edu/eq
contents include:
Greening Technology in U.K. Higher Education; by Rob Bristow with Mark Samuels
Green Desktop Computing at the University of Oxford; by Howard Noble, Daniel Curtis, and Kang Tang
Powering Down From the Bottom Up: Greener Client Computing; by Tom O’Donnell
Bottom Up and Top Down: Making IT a Key Part of the Campus Sustainability Effort; by Dennis [...]
October 6, 2009 – 2:20 pm
nbsp;http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/p…
Features
What is our value and who values us?
Lori A. Goetsch
The 2009-10 ACRL President’s focus
The blended librarian in the learning commons
Bryan Sinclair
New skills for the blended library
The Tech Deck
Laurie Alexander, Laurie A. Sutch, Harold Tuckett
Your place for the blended library
JOB OF A LIFETIME
Emerging technologies at Towson University
Erin Dorney
The hat trick
Podcast Interview
The college library in the 21st [...]
October 6, 2009 – 7:24 am
nbsp;http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs…
The following papers are included in this month’s issue:
First Monday
Volume 14, number 10 – 5 October 2009
Everyday life, online: U.S. college students’ use of the Internet by Steve Jones, Camille Johnson-Yale, Sarah Millermaier, and Francisco Seoane Perez
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin…
Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation by Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin…
Patterns of online behaviour in the United [...]
September 29, 2009 – 2:57 pm
nbsp;http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php…
articles of interest for acaedemic librarians:
John Feather’s thought provoking paper addresses the important question “Do we need the information professions?”
A survey of e-book usage at UWE – LIRG prize-winning research from Jackie Chelin and colleagues
Janet Clapton’s practical checklist for establishing the context of a new research project.
September 23, 2009 – 11:12 am
nbsp;http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/ind…
articles of interest to academic librarians include:
Access All Areas: Exploring the Use of Library and IT Facilities by University of Salford Pre-registration Diploma Nurses During Periods of Clinical Practice Placement Mike Raynor
University Student and Faculty Opinions on Academic Integrity Are Informed by Social Practices or Personal Values Matthew Thomas
Scholars in International [...]
September 23, 2009 – 8:54 am
nbsp;http://www.istl.org/
CONTENTS:
Articles
Chemical Information in Scirus and BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
by Regina B. Bendig, McMaster University
What Does It Mean to Be a Science Librarian 2.0?
by Missy Harvey, Carnegie Mellon University
Managing Biological Journal Citations: The Use of a BIBTeX Journal Titles and Abbreviations Database in Conjunction with LaTeX Type-Setting System
by Xuejun Dong, North Dakota State University; Geoffrey [...]
September 22, 2009 – 1:01 pm
nbsp;http://www.info.scopus.com/researchtrend…
Learning from our mistakes
Critics have long held that only positive results (where the outcome fits the hypothesis) are published in journals. However, science has always progressed by learning from its mistakes as well as its successes. Research Trends investigates the impact of negative findings.
Analyzing the multidisciplinary landscape
Many of our most urgent scientific challenges require [...]
September 16, 2009 – 7:50 am
nbsp;http://dlib.anu.edu.au/
EDITORIAL
It’s Time for Wider Acceptance of e-Textbooks
by Bonita Wilson, CNRI
LETTERS
To the Editor
ARTICLES
Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)
by Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University; and Ann Green, Yale University
doi:10.1045/september2009-steinhart
Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs
by Ioannis Papadakis and Michalis Stefanidakis, [...]
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