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Call for nominations – Springhare Innovation in Academic Libraries Award
The Academic Division of SLA is very proud to present for the second year an award for academic libraries, sponsored by Springshare, Inc., creator of LibGuides! This annual award recognizes a new program or service that demonstrates an innovative approach to academic librarianship. Please feel free to distribute to all innovative academic libraries you may
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Thanks for nothing, big guys (UofT and UWO cave to Access Copyright)
This made a big splash up here in Canada last week, but then seemed to quickly quiet down, and I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong spots. Read many of the details on the Excess Copyright blog, but as Howard Knopf points out, "In an astonishing development that has caught all
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CFP: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy Programs
Call for Proposals: Book chapters on scholarly communication and information literacy Title: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy ProgramsBook editors: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University and Merinda Kaye Hensley, Instructional Services Librarian/Coordinator, Scholarly Commons at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Estimated publication date: ALA
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Lifehacker’s best screencasting and screen capture apps
Over the past several weeks, Lifehacker has listed what they believe to be the best screencasting and screen capture tools for both Windows and Mac. In each post they cover the tool's Features, Where it excels, Where it falls short, and The Competition. Here they are: Best Screen capture tool for Windows (I had never