Author: Paul R. Pival
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EBSCO Content Clarification and a Mea Culpa
This morning I received the following email from Susan at EBSCO Publishing (published with permission): Hi Paul, At ALA, EBSCO had a customer luncheon where we mentioned that our databases will have some newly unique content relative to other full-text database vendors. There are many unique full-text publications in our databases. These can be due…
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EBSCO exclusive content
Last Saturday EBSCO held a luncheon at ALA in which they dropped several interesting bits of information. First, in all EBSCO products they'll be switching the default from date to relevancy ranking sometime in the Summer of 2010. You'll still be able to change this in the Admin interface, but something to be aware of. …
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The trouble with de-duplication and web-scale discovery
One of the topics of discussion at last week's Summon Advisory Board was the status of de-duping records returned by Summon. On the face of it it seems to be a simple issue – if the titles and authors match, throw the duplicate records out and you're good to go. The Summon technical team explained…
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Thoughts from the Summon Advisory Board Meeting
Late last year I was invited to become an inaugural member of the Summon Advisory Board, and yesterday here in Boston we held our first meeting. What a rush! It's days like that that remind me just how much I love my job. The day was filled with stimulating conversation, and I got to meet…
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Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides
Another press release at Library Technology Guides: Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides. I’m not entirely sure what this integration actually means, but as a customer of both LibGuides and Serials Solutions I have a query in, and will let you know what more I find out.
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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OffCamp Schedule Posted
The full conference schedule for the 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference has been posted.
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The strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads
Oooh, Dan D’Agostino, Collection Development Librarian at the University of Toronto, has an excellent guest post at TeleRead where he starts to nail the current problem with academic ebooks; namely that they’re not downloadable. This is the first in a two? part post that examines the strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads. …
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eBooks on The Current
Part 3 of yesterday’s The Current on CBC was a 26-minute piece on eBooks; mostly about pricing structures, with reminders that publishers provide a lot more than the paper upon which books are printed. At the 15-minute mark is an interview with David Kent, who’s the President and CEO of Harper Collins Canada. He guesses…
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Registration now open for OffCamp Library Services Conference 2010
Registration is now open for the 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference (OCLSC) to be held in Cleveland OH, April 28-30, 2010.