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Mar 16
NFAIS is pleased to announce that Dean Smith, Director of Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press, has been added as a speaker to the NFAIS-sponsored webinar on March 23rd to address the creation of the University Press Content Consortium. The new consortium was created based on the fin... Read more »
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Nov 03
An interesting piece from The Atlantic reveals a newly-launched enhancement to the search functionality within Google Books. "Rich Results" factors in 100 variables to find the likeliest set of titles that match the individual user's requireme... Read more »
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Jul 01
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and ASIDIC (formerly the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers - www.asidic.org), today jointly announced the assimilation of ASIDIC members into the NFAIS Community as a result of the dissolution of ASIDIC on June 30, 2010. the agreement will provide ASIDIC members in good standing with all NFAIS member benefits... Read more »
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Oct 15
Joan Lippincott of CNI gave a wonderful opening keynote in early October at the LITA National Forum, discussing the opportunities and challenges represented by mobile devices for those in the information community. A brief report of her comments is available here. Equally knowledgeable, L... Read more »
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Oct 12
In his talk last week at the RSuite User Conference, Jason Monberg, VP of Product Management, Mark Logic, referenced three areas where publishers might further derive value from their content, specifically delivery, agility, and conversation.
With regard to de... Read more »
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Oct 08
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Programs and Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC, points today to a report from the Libraries of University of Minnesota. It pertains to discoverability of authoritative content. (Download the full 160 page PDF,Read more »
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Sep 24
I recently came across the synthesize-specialize-mobilize blog, authored by Mark Dahl, Associate Director of Digital Initiatives and Collection Management, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College. Dahl had written an article entitled The Evolution of Library Discovery Systems which ... Read more »
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Sep 23
Today Google introduced a new element to their Google Toolbar, Google Sidewiki. It's a very simple and easy-to-use annotation tool for knowledge workers who use and refer to Web-based resources. It's got a social element to it in that annotations may be shared with others who visit t... Read more »
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Jul 13
Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow, a report sponsored by NISO and OCLC, has been released just in time for ALA in Chicago later this week. The report provides interesting insights into the various ways that bibliographic metadata is being utilized and the ramifi... Read more »
