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Jan 19
Announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston by the United Kingdom Serials Group
(UKSG) and the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO), the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools)
Working Group has published their initial set of practical
recommenda... Read more »
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Jan 15
Anyone following the plethora of news announcements released in
time for ALA Midwinter is aware that mobile is currently one of the
hottest area of activity in the library environment. All the more
reason then to view this video (from Ohio television news
station, NBC4) that shows Mike Teets, Vice
President, OCLC Enterprise Ar... Read more »
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Jan 14
The 2010 Horizon
Report (PDF download) is a collaboration between the New Media Corsortium and the
Coalition for
Networked Information. Although the report has not yet been
formally released, Read more »
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Jan 13
In mid-2009, the House Committee on Science and Technology in
conjunction with the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) convened a body of stakeholders to discuss scholarly
publishing. They were specifically asked to "develop a consensus
regarding access to and preservation of the results of federally
funded research that addresses the needs of all parties."
Roundtable ... Read more »
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Jan 08
The Edge's
annual question for 2010 is How Is The Internet
Changing The Way You Think?
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html See pieces by Clay
Shirky, Read more »
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Jan 04
In reviewing news clips from the month of December, I came
across this
ResourceShelf entry, directing me to several presentations from
academic librarians on mobile technology.
In particular, I want to draw attention to the Read more »
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Dec 16
Earlier this week, Internet marketing guru Seth Godin
released an 82-page book (PDF only) into the wild entitled
What Matters Now. It's an anthology of short
pieces by 52 thoug... Read more »
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Dec 03
Within the information industry, the Online Information
event held annually in London is noted for a burst of vendor
releases. This year's announcements include:
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Nov 20
There are times when a stellar result is only achieved through
cooperation across several communities. That was the case with the
recent one-day program co-sponsored by NFAIS, CENDI and FLICC,
The Semantic Web: Fact or
Myth?. The program featured an outstanding array
of speakers recruited by the... Read more »
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Nov 10
NFAIS members are aware of the usefulness of Twitter for
purposes of current awareness; see for example the twitter stream from
NFAIS member organization, AIP. Are they aware as well of
The Twitter
Tim.es? A social recommendation system, TwitterTim.es looks at
the tweets of ... Read more »
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Nov 04
Run a search using
#chsconf09 and listen to the tweets emanating from this year's
Charleston
Conference, a well-established conference devoted to library
acquisitions and collection development. The tidbits that I gleaned
this morning wer... Read more »
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Nov 03
During the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Association of
Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) released a
research report authored by Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, entitled
The STM Report: An overview of scientific, and
scholarly journals publishing. An update of an
initial industry benchmark report done in 2006, the report delivers
a positive p... Read more »
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Oct 27
The University
of Michigan Press blog links today to an extensive outline of
their new MPublishing initiative. With a mission of being the
primary academic publishing unit of the institution,
MPublishing
will c... Read more »
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Oct 26
In looking over the RSS feeds this morning, I noted an entry
from the Law Librarian Blog relating to the usability of a
particular information resource (see The Witches ... Read more »
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Oct 20
When discussing mobile access and delivery of content within the
context of scholarly communication, many providers of scholarly and
scientific information do not see an immediate relevance to their
products and services. As a result, they choose to delay any
further consideration of this new delivery channel. They just don't
see the potential for now. In hindsight, this may prove to be a
mi... Read more »
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