Feb 01
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™) is releasing a draft Discovery Service Code of Practice for review and comment by March 16, 2012. NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, benefiting not only its member organizations, but also the global community of information... Read more »
Aug 30
The Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant is pleased to announce that it has been classified as a public charity by the Internal Revenue Service. As such, it is exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and all contributions to it are therefore fully deductible, as well. The Grant also is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devi... Read more »
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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 »
Jan 05
Martin Fenner, a practicing researcher at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany, has posted a pre-print of his article on the various initiatives aimed at the creation of unique author identifiers for purposes of research information retrieval and attribution.
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Nov 05
A particularly useful presentation at this year's Charleston Conference was on the topic of Patron-Driven Collection Development. Librarians from the University of Iowa offered practical insights into the use of their ebook collections, working in conjunction with YBP and ebrary. 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 »
Sep 13
From the Press Release: Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters has announced her intention to retire effective December 31, 2010. Ms. Peters has served as Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994, a tenure longer than any other Register with the exception of Thorvald Solberg, the first Register. Her exemplary service to the ... 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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Jul 01
NFAIS member organizations ProQuest and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) have announced an agreement that will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The agreement assures the database's continuing development and accessibility to researchers around th... Read more »
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Jun 04
Librarian Phil Bradley and industry analyst Stephen Arnold are two people who have found Microsoft's recent launch of social dashboard, Spindex to be of interest and potentiall... Read more »
May 07
Aaron Tay of the National University of Singapore, blogging at Musings on Librarianship, has done a fascinating job of assessing library mobile sites with an eye... Read more »
Apr 30
There are some interesting findings and statistics in the findings from this research paper, Social Software in Academia: Three Studies on Users' Acceptance of Web 2.0 Services, presented at the WWW2010 event.
From section 4.1.2 of the paper, "How often do you use the following services for scientific... Read more »
Apr 22
Judge Denny Chin has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. This is of particular interest to those in the information community because Chin had been the judge associated with the critical litigation surrounding... Read more »
Apr 14
The other day I was using the search tool, Bing. It's important to note that the attraction of Bing (at least for me) is not necessarily the actual search results returned. Those are fine, but not necessarily superior to those from Yahoo or Google. The attraction of Bing for me is the compelling user experience. Invariably th... Read more »
Apr 09
The library profession has prided itself on the contributions that it makes in support of scholarship and pedagogy. In the current environment, there are librarians who feel that role is under-rated. Stephen Bell is one such librarian and has expressed his suspicion that the faculty and students don't get it and that libraries need to Read more »
