ACS Mobile: New Information Access Option
Mar 17
Earlier this week, the American Chemical Society (ACS) posted a video demonstration of their Read more »
OCLC Modifies WorldCat URLs
Mar 16
Most of the information community is agreed that the higher the quality of your metadata (including the various forms of identifiers available), the more discoverable your content will be for users. That said, most users have difficulty recalling such unique identifiers as an ISBN or OCLC record number when seeking out a particular title.
That's why it was interesting to see OCLC's <... Read more »
Usage and Growth of Twitter
Mar 12
With Twitter reaching 50 million tweets per day, it represents a significant platform for both information communication and dissemination purposes. Indeed, as one analyst pointed out, the Read more »
UKSG and NISO Release KBART Recommended Practices
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 »
Fueling Usage through Mobile Phone Apps
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 »
The 2010 Horizon Report
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 »
Report and Recommendations From The Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
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 »
The Potential for the Web in 2010
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 »
Impact of Mobile in the Library Environment
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 »
Reviewing the Past, Looking to the Future
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 »
Member News From London Online Meeting
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:
Semantic Web: Fact or Myth?
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 »
Did You See It In The Times?
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 »
Tweets From A Library Conference
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 »
The STM Report
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 »