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Life after Google: You Have Options - 0 views

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    Back in October, the geeks were crapping their collective shorts in anger at some ill-advised changes coming out of Mountain View. If you'll recall, Google tweaked Reader and rolled out some crappy apps in what was called the week Google messed up. "We're leaving Google!" the geeks proclaimed.
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Fair-Use Guide Hopes to Solve Librarians' VHS-Cassette Problem - Wired Campus - The Chr... - 1 views

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    The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call "the VHS-cassette problem." Here's the scenario: An academic library has a collection of video tapes that is slowly deteriorating, thanks to the fragile nature of analog media.
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U.S. House Introduces SKILLS Act - 0 views

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    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.
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Free/Open Source Software for Libraries - 0 views

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    FOSS4LIB (Free/Open Source Software for Libraries), a website dedicated to providing guidance about open source software for the library community.
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You mean I can use the library, too? Collaborating with campus human resources to devel... - 2 views

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    A library class for staff? No problem, we've done hundreds of those for students. How different can it be?" was our first reaction to a proposal to develop a library orientation class for university professional and administrative staff.
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How to Turn Off Google's Annoying New Personal Search Results - 0 views

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    A way to turn off this annoying feature
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OPAC Survey - 1 views

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    There are many more questions and results on this blog. This particular question just seemed worth pointing out. Have you ever suffered from "OPAC envy" when looking at someone else's OPAC?
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ACRLog » Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition) - 0 views

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    The Research Works Act will prohibit federal agencies from unauthorized free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, to some degree, has been federally-funded but is produced and published by private sector publishers receiving no such funding. It would also prevent non-government authors from being required to agree to such free distribution of these works. Additionally, it would preempt federal agencies' planned funding, development and back-office administration of their own electronic repositories for such works, which would duplicate existing copyright-protected systems and unfairly compete with established university, society and commercial publishers.
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ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education | Association of College... - 0 views

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    We are pleased to announce publication of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (pdf) by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). The Visual Literacy Standards include: · an introduction to and definition of visual literacy · a brief discussion of visual literacy and higher education · a brief discussion of visual literacy and information literacy · suggestions for implementing the Standards · key sources and bibliography · 7 standards, 24 performance indicators, and 90 learning outcomes
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New Study Shows E-Textbooks Saved Many Students Only $1 - 1 views

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    Despite the promise that digital textbooks can lead to huge cost savings for students, a new study at Daytona State College has found that many who tried e-textbooks saved only one dollar, compared with their counterparts who purchased traditional printed material.
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Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access - 0 views

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    In this article I would like to make the case that a change in the delivery of sci- entific content and in the business models for delivering scholarly communication was inevitable from the moment journals moved online, even if much of this change is yet to come. By applying a thesis put forth by Chris Anderson in his 2009 book Free,1 I will argue that given that scholarly journals are now digital products, they are subject to very dif- ferent economic principles and social forces than their print ancestors.
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OCLC WorldShare Announcement - 0 views

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    Today we are launching the OCLC WorldShare Platform, a shared technical infrastructure that will support a growing number of OCLC services and applications. This platform will enable library developers, partners and other organizations to create, configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users.
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How the Internet Is Ruining Everything - 0 views

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    Was the Internet helpful to civilization?
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LJ's ILS Survey: Are You Satisfied? - 1 views

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    LJ recently asked librarians to tell us what they, and their patrons, thought of their ILSs. Nearly 1300 librarians responded, including 709 public librarians and 541 academic librarians, and their answers will strike a chord with many readers.
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What do Americans want from their libraries? Here's our chance to find out - 0 views

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    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.
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Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure - 0 views

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    Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing.
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Google Scholar -- Support for Libraries - 1 views

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    So, apparently we need a link resolver.
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Renovation as a catalyst - 1 views

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    Some food for thought
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Creating Search Boxes - Springshare Help at Springshare - 0 views

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    How we can deploy search in LibGuides
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JSTOR Search Widget - 0 views

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    Embed a JSTOR search widget into a web page
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