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  • Knowledge Creation Platforms – what a wonderful start to a story

    Yesterday a colleague passed on a link to a wonderfully thoughtful journal article: Knowledge Creation Platforms: The Next Step after Web-Scale Discovery, by Carl Grant, whom I am now following on Twitter. In this piece, Carl brings us up to speed with a brief history of how technology has gotten us (libraries) to our current

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  • Survey of library services for distance learning programs

    Primary Research Group, publisher of research reports and surveys about libraries, is surveying academic libraries world wide for a report on how libraries serve distance learning programs. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey data.  Participants are listed in the report but answers are confidential. To take the survey

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  • Some skills you might want for the 21st century

    I just finished reading a report called Working together: evolving value for academic libraries, and found it a good read. Presenting the results of several surveys, the authors describe the areas in which academic libraries have traditionally attempted to demonstrate value (embedded teaching), and the areas in which they should probably start putting more focus

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  • CFP: Workshop on Digital Surfaces in Libraries (DSL)

    http://libraryworkshop.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Digital Surfaces in Libraries (DSL)  ======================================= We invite you to join DSL, a venue for collaboration and discussion on the successes and pitfalls encountered in working in with interactive surfaces in library spaces by bringing together researchers, designers, practitioners, and librarians.  This full day workshop is held in conjunction

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  • 26% of book collections are now digital…

    …at least according to the results of Wiley's 2013 Librarian Survey. They've created a couple of nice infographics to go along with their data, so go have a look.

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