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Deb Robertson

The Collections shift - Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - 0 views

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collection_development future

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  • Deb Robertson on 02 Oct 11
     
    Contains link to presentation at RLG by David Lewis outlining a strategy for academic libraries with the following points: "Complete the migration from print to electronic collections Retire legacy print collections Redevelop library space Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise Migrate the focus of collections from purchasing materials to curating content"
Sara Thompson

Think Like a Start-Up: a White Paper - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views

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libraries innovation management professional planning ideasfile resources

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  • I’ve been fascinated with startup culture for a long time and as I considered all the changes happening in academic libraries (and higher ed) the parallels were quite stunning.
  • we are being required to rethink/rebuild/repurpose what a library is and what it does. The next twenty years are going to be an interestingly chaotic time for the history of our institutions.
  • In concise terms: startups are organizations dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This sounds exactly like an academic library to me. Not only are we trying to survive, but we’re also trying to transform our organizations into a viable service for 21st century scholars and learners.
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  • I’ve found that entrepreneurs tend to love talking about the future of higher education, largely because it didn’t work well for them and they want to see something different.
  • Let me know if something resonates with you or your workplace. I’d love to hear from libraries practicing a similar R&D methodology.
  • Sara Thompson on 09 Apr 12
     
    Deb, I think this would be right up your alley. He's asking a lot of the same questions you ask, with some interesting links on the last page to other resources. Sections: 1. Is higher ed too big to fail? 2. Innovators wanted 3. Think like a startup 4. Lean startups 5. Build, Measure, Learn 6. Three Essential Qualities 7. Too much assessment, not enough innovation 8. A strategic culture (not plan) 9. Microscopes and telescopes 10. Real artists ship
Mark Lindner

New: "Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries... - 0 views

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ColDev librariana libraries IFLA

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  • Mark Lindner on 26 Mar 12
     
    Electronic resources represent an increasingly important component of the collection- building activities of libraries. "Electronic resources" refer to those materials that require computer access, whether through a personal computer, mainframe, or handheld mobile device. They may either be accessed remotely via the Internet or locally.
fleschnerj

Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 21 May 12
     
    Libraries are changing, despite their facades. And they're changing to high-tech service companies with embedded librarians, according to some library professionals. Of course, that assumes they aren't defunded out of existence. For ladies and gentlemen of a certain age, the library is changing too fast. For kids, it's changing too slow.
Sara Thompson

Library Labs RSS4Lib - 0 views

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libraries innovation creativity technology examples webtools search research

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  • Sara Thompson on 28 Jun 12
     
    "The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services."
Sara Thompson

Can You Put that in the Form of a Question? | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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libraries info-literacy instruction teaching assignments research education

shared by Sara Thompson on 02 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • One of their assignments is to interview a researcher in their field. This year, since the students had a nice mix of majors from across the curriculum, we used reports from the interviews as an opportunity to analyze on how research traditions vary from one discipline to another and how these experts’ processes differ from those of non-experts.
  • One thing that many students remarked on as they reported on their interviews: the activities that define research are enormously varied from one discipline to another. The process a researcher goes through to examine the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote one of his history plays is a world apart from what a researcher does to develop a new vaccine or what an ethnographer does when studying an isolated culture in Brazil.
  • The scientists all had co-authors; the social scientists were a mix of solo and collaborative projects, and the humanists all performed solo acts. And yet, it became clear that all of them were working within an ongoing conversation. None of them was doing work that didn’t draw on and respond to the work of others.
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  • Every interview subject conducted some sort of a literature review as part of any research project
  • Every researcher described some strategies for keeping up with new developments in their area of expertise, all of which involved some scanning of new publications and some personal contact with individuals exploring the same territory.
  • For most, presenting research at conferences was a common part of bringing their research to completion. For all, writing up results for publication was an important final step, and they seemed acutely aware of the pecking order for publication venues in their field.
  • (In contrast, undergraduates mostly encounter articles within databases, called up by key words, not as artifacts within a particular journal which carries clout.)
  • One thing the students all gained through these interviews was an appreciation that research is not a matter of finding answers in other people’s publications. Every scholar interviewed described how they had asked a question that nobody had asked before, a question they couldn’t answer themselves until they had completed the research. It struck me that so much of what undergraduates experience as “research” is very nearly the opposite, a process of uncovering answers others have already arrived at.
  • I’m also thinking about what these interviews said collectively about how real research is conducted. It makes me a little crazy when students abandon a truly interesting question because they can’t find sources to quote that provide the answer, or when they change their topic based on what they can find easily. Or (shudder) when they say they've written their paper, but need help finding five sources to cite. Clearly, they are not learning how to do research; they aren't even learning what research is.  What I would really, really like is to figure out how to give every student the experience of not worrying so much about getting the right answers, but learning how to ask a really good question. The kind they won't find answered in the library.
  • Sara Thompson on 02 Jun 12
     
    "I teach a course in the spring called Information Fluency... It's an upper division undergraduate course pitched to students who are planning to go to graduate school, giving them a chance to learn more about the way the literature of their field works as well as generally how to use library and internet tools for research."
Sara Thompson

ALA Library Fact Sheet 21 - Automating Libraries and Virtual Reference: A Selected Anno... - 0 views

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libraries software technology resources articles

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  • Sara Thompson on 28 Nov 11
     
    Lots of links to reports and articles about library software including ILS vendors. Great resources!
fleschnerj

What do Americans want from their libraries? Here's our chance to find out - 0 views

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Pew libraries research

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  • fleschnerj on 28 Nov 11
     
    What does your community want and need from a library? If you're a librarian, chances are you've made efforts to find out, to strategically plan, to adjust services to local interests and changing needs. Rarely, though, do any of us get to see a broad view of our library community through the filter of independent data.
Sara Thompson

Directory of libraries and their ILS choice - 1 views

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libraries software bcushare

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  • Sara Thompson on 29 Nov 11
     
    Iowa academic libraries -- Symphony users include Dordt, Drake, and Morningside
Sara Thompson

Canada Water library - review | Art and design | The Observer - 0 views

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libraries buildings design travel

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  • Sara Thompson on 04 Dec 11
     
    a new public library in London with an unusual shape
Mark Lindner

How to Go High-Tech on a Tight Budget | ALA TechSource - 0 views

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libraries technology

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  • Mark Lindner on 14 Dec 11
     
    "For libraries, it's one of the biggest conundrums of our time. To be the library your patrons want and need you to be, you've got to be high-tech, offering fast, IT-integrated services people can't get on their own. Yet to do this, you have to spend money...money you do not have in your budget."
  • Mark Lindner on 14 Dec 11
     
    Not for the workshop but for the link suggestions.
fleschnerj

U.S. House Introduces SKILLS Act - 0 views

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school libraries law SKILLS Act

shared by fleschnerj on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 19 Jan 12
     
    Defines an "effective school library program" to be staffed by a state-certified school librarian, have up-to-date materials including technology, teaches digital literacy skills, and finally, has regular collaboration between other education professionals over curriculum. Replaces Improving Literacy Through School Libraries with Improving Literacy and College and Career Readiness Through Effective School Library Programs which would award competitive grants to underserved local schools and school districts to develop an effective school library program. Allows school librarians access to professional development funds under Title II of ESEA.
Sara Thompson

28 more libraries join the OCLC WorldShare Management Services community -- [Library Te... - 0 views

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libraries oclc OPAC

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  • This brings the number of libraries worldwide committed to using OCLC WorldShare Management Services to 171.
  • Today, 33 libraries are live with WorldShare Management Services.
Mark Lindner

Now Online: Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Webcast Now Available... - 0 views

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ACRL libraries standards webcast academia

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  • Mark Lindner on 12 Nov 11
     
    " the webcast provided an overview of the revision, highlighting ways the standards can benefit libraries in the strategic planning, program review, and self-study processes. The webcast archive and full text of the revised standards are both freely available on the ACRL Standards and Guidelines page."
Sara Thompson

Information Technology and Libraries: Vol 31, No 1 (2012) - 1 views

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articles usability webdesign libraries research to-read

shared by Sara Thompson on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Articles Copyright: Regulation Out of Line with our Digital Reality? PDF Abigail J. McDermott 7-20 Library Use of Web-based Research Guides PDF Jimmy Ghaphery, Erin White 21-31 Investigations into Library Web-Scale Discovery Services PDF Jason Vaughan 32-82 Usability Test Results for a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library PDF Jody Condit Fagan, Meris A. Mandernach, Carl S. Nelson, Jonathan R. Paulo, Grover Saunders
  • Sara Thompson on 06 Mar 12
     
    First open-access e-version issue
fleschnerj

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (and the Interesting) of Libraries and eBooks - Data fro... - 0 views

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Pew Libraries Research Data

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  • fleschnerj on 22 Jun 12
     
    This morning at 12:01 am Pew released their new report on the role of libraries in the digital age - title Libraries, patrons and ebooks. You can read the full report here and I encourage you to do so, there is a great deal of good data there.
Mark Lindner

Libraries: Be careful what your web sites "Like" « Everybody's Libraries - 3 views

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facebook privacy libraries social media have_read

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  • Mark Lindner on 22 Oct 11
     
    Some things to think about as the library redesigns its website.
fleschnerj

At Play in the Academic Library - 1 views

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play academic libraries

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  • fleschnerj on 04 Oct 12
     
    Of the many experiences students expect to have in an academic library, play probably never comes to mind. Seeing a coffee shop within the library probably feels familiar, as do comfortable chairs, and of course they expect librarians, study rooms, and books, and Wii…wait, what?!
Sara Thompson

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication | Pacific University Library - 0 views

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openaccess libraries copyright publishing journal articles

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  • Sara Thompson on 17 May 12
     
    "The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the "common Stock of Knowledge.""
fleschnerj

Apps change everything at library - 0 views

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libraries IOS Apps

shared by fleschnerj on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 07 Sep 12
     
    A few months ago the Winnetka-Northfield Library launched their mobile application for the iPod, iPad and iPhone, along with an Android device app available at winnetka.boopsie.com.
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