Author: Paul R. Pival
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Educause Top-Ten IT Issues, 2013: Welcome to the Connected Age
Not a brand-new read, but *I* just finished reading the Educause annual paper, Top-Ten IT Issues, 2013: Welcome to the Connected Age (PDF). While libraries are only explicitly mentioned once or twice in the entire 19 pages, one of the panelists was a librarian, so there is that I guess. I only bother to mention that because…
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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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Postifier – yet another option for reporting available seats?
My quest continues. I didn't think it was all the way back in January that I last posted about this dream, but it was! Postifier is a little gizmo intended to be put inside a mailbox that will alert you when there's actually something placed inside: The device lives on the inner roof of your…
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Free ebook: The Teacher-Librarianship by Distance Learning program at the University of Alberta
The Teacher-Librarianship by Distance Learning program at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) is pleased to announce the publication of a new free ebook: Becoming and Being: Reflections on Teacher-Librarianship, edited by Jennifer Branch-Mueller, Kandise Salerno, and Joanne de Groot. Each chapter was written by 25 graduating (or soon to graduate) TLDL students as part…