Category: Scholarship
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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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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.
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CFP: Book Chapters for Embedded Librarians
This ought to be up the alley of quite a few of you: Editors of the forthcoming ACRL publications book Embedded Librarians: Moving beyond one-shot instruction, to be published late 2010, seek proposals for chapters from skilled librarians who have researched and/or implemented an embedded librarian program. The book will provide an overview of embedded…
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CFP: Netspeed 2010
Seems a little early, but The Alberta Library (TAL) has put our a Call For Proposals for Netspeed 2010, to be held October 20-22, 2010 in Edmonton, AB. Here’s the call: The Alberta Library (TAL) invites proposals for conference sessions at Netspeed 2010, to be held October 20-22, 2010, in Edmonton, AB. Netspeed is a…
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Program Announced for Off-Campus Library Services Conference 2010
The Fourteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference will be held April 28-30, 2010, at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The list of presentations has just been announced. Looks like there should be something for most everyone in that list!
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Webinar: The Future of the Library – How the Library Ecosystem is Evolving to Support 21st Century Information Demands
Library Journal has another interesting-sounding webinar coming up this week (11/18/2009 12:00 PM EST): The Future of the Library – How the Library Ecosystem is Evolving to Support 21st Century Information Demands. From the registration page: Libraries are continuing to evolve and are using new technologies to expand their presence as virtual knowledge centers for…
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Apparently people want scholarly articles
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a recently-published study that monitored a file-sharing site where almost 5,500 scholarly articles were traded over a 6-month period, “costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year.” Interestingly, the study is freely available online from The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics. I call BS…
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Internet Librarian days 2 and 3
Didn't take many notes on day three, so I'm combining two days in this post. Even so, it shouldn't be as long as the day one post. I took these notes for myself, not necessarily for the blog, so they're most definitely not session reports – hopefully some useful links to explore. I started the…
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Internet Librarian day one recap
I thought I'd try something new this year by not bringing my laptop to the sessions. I figured maybe I'd pay more attention, and I think it's working for me. I've still got the Wi-fiPhone for checking email from time to time, but for the most part I'm listening and writing down what ideas I…