Academic Libraries
Many SOLINET libraries among the Best College Libraries for 2009
Posted by Jennifer on 31 July, 2008 in Academic Libraries, Awards
The Princeton Review has posted its rankings for “Best College Library” for 2009. Our congratulations to Duke, William & Mary, Emory, and U-Virginia for making the grade!
Among other rankings:
* Clemson, Tulane, and UNC-Chapel Hill were ranked for “Happiest Students.”
* Chapel Hill, U-Georgia, U-Florida, LSU, Duke, and Ole Miss were all ranked as [...]
Top Ten Assumptions for the Future of Academic Libraries and Librarians
Posted by Max on 14 January, 2008 in Academic Libraries, Library News
From ACRL’s “Environmental Scan 2007” (PDF)
1. There will be an increased emphasis on digitizing collections, preserving digital archives, and improving methods of data storage, retrieval, curation, and service
2. The skill set for librarians will continue to evolve in response to the changing needs and expectations of the populations they serve, [...]
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Posted by Max on 28 November, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Accounting, Library News, Member Services, Public Libraries
Ever wonder what sort of dollar amount you can place on the services you use at your local library? With this calculator developed by the Library Research Service of the Colorado State Library in Denver, wonder no more.
Report from the Beach
Posted by Max on 19 October, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Conferences, Digital Libraries, Library News, Products and Services, Public Libraries
Today is not over and I am exhausted already! Ever feel like that at a conference? This morning I attended two sessions and one this afternoon. Here is the breakdown on them:
Lip Smacking Good: Web 2.0 Technologies and Your Library Blog, by Robin Fay and Amy Watts of UGA. They gave a short but [...]
That’s Hot: UK Library on the cover of the Chronicle!
Posted by Max on 6 September, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Library News
This is the type of pin-up that librarians love: The cover of a major magazine/journal. No it’s not Nancy Pearl. No it’s not Stephen Abram. It’s the University of Kentucky’s beautiful William T. Young Library.
From the article:
Young Library houses the general undergraduate collection and social science, humanities, business, [...]
Banning MySpace
Posted by Max on 30 August, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Library News, Public Libraries, Social Software
According to TampaBay’s 10, the Temple Terrace Public Library (FL) has banned the popular social software site MySpace as well as chatrooms and some blogs. They are looking at adding Facebook to the list of banned sites. On the other hand, there are libraries which have created MySpace accounts like:
Orange County Public [...]
Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification Checklist is Published
Posted by Laura on 14 March, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Reports
The Center for Research Libraries and RLG Programs (a unit of the OCLC Programs and Research division) announce the publication of Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist.
According to Bernard Reilly (President, Center for Research Libraries), “At a time when universities and research libraries are being called upon to bear the substantial costs of [...]
Find a Pearl in OAIster!
Posted by Max on 27 January, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Digital Libraries
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. It harvests records using OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocal for Metadata Harvesting) which is not the same as the Open Access movement. This is part of what is known as the “deep web” - resources that are not traditionally found in standard web search tools [...]