Category: Scholarship
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11 tools for creating digital magazines
Can’t remember how I came across this one, but over at NetMagazine you’ll find a great post sharing 10 tools you can use to create professional-looking digital magazines, and most without any significant cost at all! Each entry lists the pros and cons of each tool, and links to a working example you can check…
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After 244 years, Britannica announces it will discontinue its print version
As reported in the New York Times, "Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project." It'll be interesting how this will change basic intro…
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How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box
A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries are turning increasingly to unified search solutions to simplify search and discovery of library resources. Unfortunately, very…
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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…