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Jennifer Parsons

California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks | Ars Technica - 1 views

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Professional Development Creative Commons california textbooks ebooks libraries

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • He signed two bills, one to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them, at a meeting with students in Sacramento.
  • The law specifies that the textbooks must be placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of California to use the textbooks in their own classrooms.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Interesting.  I wonder what an open-source textbook will be like, or what can be done with it.  Also, the article seems to assume that the information in the textbooks is under the same license.
Scott Peterson

How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative - 0 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 29 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 29 Aug 13
     
    Initially I thought this would be an informative article but it was essentially a long complaint about trying to get scholarly communication working, and I kept thinking if the author is aware of the problems beforehand then why not anticipate solutions?
Megan Durham

Are Librarians Important? (Infographic) - 2 views

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library libraries professional

shared by Megan Durham on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 21 Sep 12
     
    This is just full of useful information-READ it!
Sharla Lair

Cool! Harvard Library Lab Releases 20 Project Overview Videos Online | LJ INFOdocket - 0 views

www.infodocket.com/...tional-videos-available-online

Professional Development harvard lab library project

shared by Sharla Lair on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 04 Mar 13
     
    Really neat ideas from Harvard Libraries!
adrienne_mobius

Fall 2012 (v.24 no.4) - National Information Standards Organization - 1 views

www.niso.org/...v24no4

library services platforms sierra

shared by adrienne_mobius on 11 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 11 Jan 13
     
    The feature article "The Future of Library Systems" has a section about Sierra and a summary comparison of new library services platforms.
Scott Peterson

The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 - 0 views

www.lootedart.com

Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 25 Apr 13
     
    The website of Central Registry for looted Nazi books and Art, including two databases; one for books and one for objects.
Sharla Lair

Dogged by Nepotism Charges, Chiropractic College Reveals Earnings of Chief's Family - Leadership & Governance - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Logan nepotism earnings

shared by Sharla Lair on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • After years of guarding such details, one of the nation's largest nonprofit chiropractic colleges has disclosed on its tax forms that the institution's president and his family members collectively earned more than $1-million in 2010-11. The bulk of the $1,028,939 went to George A. Goodman, whose $798,198 compensation as president of Logan College of Chiropractic University Programs, in Missouri, rivals that of the leaders of some elite research institutions. The remaining $230,741 went to Mr. Goodman's wife, son, and daughter-in-law.
  • The IRS assesses all benefits flowing to a family to determine whether compensation for a chief executive is excessive, and any tax form that fails to provide that information is incomplete, said Raymond D. Cotton, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in presidential contracts and compensation matters.
  • The second-highest earner in the family was Mr. Goodman's son, Jason C. Goodman, whose compensation as an instructor totaled $97,910. Elizabeth A. Goodman, Mr. Goodman's wife, earned $92,486 in her role as dean of university programs. Jessica Chrun-Goodman, Jason Goodman's wife, earned $40,345 for duties unspecified in the form.
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  • Mr. Goodman, according to The Chroni­cle's analysis, earned more than all but one other public- or private-college president in Missouri in 2009-10. Only Mark S. Wrighton, president of Washington University in St. Louis, earned more. Mr. Goodman's compensation constitutes about 3 percent of Logan's $24.6-million budget. His total pay for 2010-11 slightly exceeded that of Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Tufts University. Tufts has a budget $768-million.
  • Sharla Lair on 19 Oct 12
     
    Logan College of Chiropractic University has finally released how much the president and his family are paid. If you remember, several months back, another Chronicle article mentioned hints of nepotism. What's totally outrageous is that the president at Logan is the 2nd highest paid president in MO, with only Wash U being higher paid. I have concerns over the impact this can make on Logan as a whole.
Jennifer Parsons

Coyle's InFormation: Is Linked Data the Answer? - 0 views

kcoyle.blogspot.com/...is-linked-data-answer.html

Professional Development linked data library libraries metadata

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • What this means for us in libraries is that we shouldn't be thinking that linked data will replace bibliographic data. It will encode the aspects of bibliographic data that will give us the most and the best links.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 24 Oct 12
     
    Karen Coyle's answer is, "Yes, but it can't be an end of itself."  She gives a very nice imaging of what linked library data could possibly do.
Sharla Lair

Next ALCTS e-Forum: BISAC and Beyond, April 17-18 - 0 views

www.ala.org/...sympa

training BISAC ALCTS

shared by Sharla Lair on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
    • Sharla Lair
      Sharla Lair on 09 Apr 12
       
      BISAC and Beyond: Making Word-Based Classification Your Own April 17-18, 2012 Hosted by Logan MacDonald and Loretta Mainock Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, sessions begin and end at: Pacific: 7am - 3pm Mountain: 8am - 4pm Central: 9am - 5 pm Eastern: 10am - 6pm Description: Many libraries are considering moving away from traditional classification systems like Dewey or LC in favor of word-based systems based on BISAC, a classification scheme used by book retailers and publishers. Reclassifying a library collection takes thought, planning, courage, and sweat. How can a word-based classification system benefit your customers? Join the conversation and talk to other libraries who have already ditched Dewey or are considering making the switch. Topics for discussion may include: Why switch to a BISAC-based system? Adapting BISAC for the needs of your customers Planning the conversion process Tips, tricks, and FAQs for reclassifying collections Using BISAC for collection development Rethinking the 'flow' of your nonfiction collection Merchandising with BISAC BISAC and the MARC record Leveraging BISAC in the OPAC to add discovery points Logan Macdonald is the Collection Development Manager for Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado. In 2008, Logan helped develop WordThink, Anythink's BISAC-based classification system that was implemented district-wide in 2009. Prior to joining Anythink, Logan worked for the Montrose Regional Library District in Montrose, Colorado and University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. He is frequently introduced by colleagues as "The Man Who Killed Dewey." Loretta Mainock is the Anythink Buyer for children's materials and also purchases econtent, music and dvd's for Anythink Libraries. She has been with the library district for more than 15 years. She has been in
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chronicle.com - Readability - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Sharla Lair

Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google's New Knowledge Graph Search - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...les-new-knowledge-graph-search

Professional Development google search

shared by Sharla Lair on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 25 May 12
     
    Review of Google's new Knowledge Graph search.
  • anonymous on 26 May 12
     
    I think this is a cool and worthwhile improvement, but where the article makes a comparison to Wolfram Alpha I have to disagree. Google's knowledge engine is exactly the type of thing you get to do with the semantic web - and it's awesome - but it's not a *computational* knowledge engine like WA. If you google "The moon" you get some useful information about it including it's distance. But the distance there is just some number pulled from some resource. WA /calculates/ the distance to the moon at the exact moment of your search. Not to say WA is better - it's just different. WA has an entry for Leonardo da Vinci, and has a lot of the same facts as Google does - but it doesn't really have much of a capacity to show you anything related to him. Anyway, cool new feature that I'd noticed and used already but hadn't actually heard mention of. One of those things that Google just kinda slipped in that works.
anonymous

Jury says Google's Android does not infringe Oracle patents - Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News & Updates | Geek.com - 0 views

www.geek.com/...fringe-oracle-patents-20120524

technology patents news google oracle

shared by anonymous on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • The judge still needs to decide if APIs can be copyrighted, which is the only count Google lost in phase one. If the judge decides they are not, then it becomes much harder for Oracle to continue on.
  • Oracle is likely to seek an appeal, but even if it gets another shot, the information coming from jurors makes it clear that Oracle’s arguments were not even close to convincing.
  • Oracle might still end up with some kind of payout in the future, depending on how judge Aslup decides on the remaining issues. There might even need to be another jury to decide on damages later, but right now, Oracle has won essentially nothing.
  • anonymous on 25 May 12
     
    Suck it Oracle.
adrienne_mobius

Update: 'Google Search Education' - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...40023

google information literacy teaching

shared by adrienne_mobius on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 31 May 12
     
    Google has a new site called Google Search Education with different lesson plans for picking the right search terms, understanding search results, narrowing a search, and evaluating credibility of sources.
Sharla Lair

How to Turn a City into a Library - The Digital Reader - 0 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...-to-turn-a-city-into-a-library

Professional Development city library

shared by Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    Interesting project in Austria. They placed 70 QR codes around the city each leading to a particular ebook or mp3 that can be downloaded for free.  The blog states, "This project is in effect giving digital content a finite location, thus removing one of the key aspects that separates paper books from ebooks". 
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Jul 12
     
    I wonder if the posts are in places with literary or historical significance-- e.g., a QR code near the former home of a famous author, leading to excerpts or readings from his or her books. I can see a huge potential for museums here, actually. For example, at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, a QR code can be posted to information or collections on the Dred Scott Decision. Or here in Columbia, QR codes posted in the Red Campus can pull up copies of historical documents on the 1892 fire.
Sharla Lair

Bring Courtesy Back to the Workplace - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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Professional Development workplace courtesy

shared by Sharla Lair on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • In the absence of high-touch, personal connections many managers are reporting breakdowns in courtesy and respect, many of which are amplified by the stresses of the workplace. Some common examples I've heard recently include a last-minute request for "urgent" information without regard for what it will take to get it done; a manager ignoring emails and voice mails which delayed resolution of a customer problem; a team that worked all night to meet a budget deadline and then received neither feedback nor thanks for their work; and a manager in Asia who was required to attend regular teleconferences with a North American team that kept her up through the middle of the night, with no acknowledgement of what was involved.
  • Sharla Lair on 11 Sep 12
     
    Interesting read about courtesy. I know we deal with this on a day-to-day basis with our members and vendors. Are we doing it to each other too?
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Everyone's a Maker at this Library Maker Space - 0 views

www.shareable.net/...er-at-this-library-maker-space

shared by Justin Hopkins on 26 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    An article about a Maker Space at the Westport, Connecticut library, which includes a 3D printing project. 3-D printing is one of the waves of the future and I know the MST library looked at one; hosting the Maker Space in the middle of the library is a good way to promote it but I wonder if the noise and activity will end up distracting to the other patrons.
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    This is epic. Someday soon libraries will be repositories of genetic information and in addition to 3D printers they will have biological printers. Even though libraries lending seeds is fairly new, in the not so distant future that function will be obsolete as patrons are able to come into the library and print the genetic materials needed to grow any plant species on record.
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Libraries Aren't Dying, They're Evolving - 1 views

www.shareable.net/...the-evolving-library

shared by Justin Hopkins on 26 Jul 12 - No Cached
    • Justin Hopkins
      Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
       
      This is so true. I remember back in the old days of COIN (Columbia Online Information Network). COIN was an ISP that the public library ran. It was free for anyone to use, but if you wanted a decent connection or access to email you had to pay. It was in the days before www. Anyway it was so cool and the perfect example of how libraries were quick to jump on the new tech. I remember seeing the metal and smoked glass cabinet full of modems on the second floor of the old library building out where everyone could see and marvel at it. It had a big sign hanging from the ceiling "COIN".
  • The State of America’s Libraries Report for 2011 notes that library visitation per capita and circulation per capita have both increased in the past 10 years.
  • “In general, libraries embraced the internet right away,” says Raphael. “And not just to provide computers for patrons. They recognized that it became a new tool for librarians.”
  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    A positive four part blog entry about how libraries are evolving to meet new needs, strengthen communities during bad economic times, and are centers for sharing. Overall I think this article is the most realistic one I've read in some time. It still acknowledges that libraries are doing more with less, and that perceptions of libraries are slow to change.
Jennifer Parsons

Libraries and Information Science Beta - Stack Exchange - 1 views

libraries.stackexchange.com

Professional Development library librarians message boards best practices

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 30 May 12
     
    Interesting-- this is a very simple sharing site with a Yahoo! Answers/ message board (at least that's what old people who came of age in the 90s like me call it) sort of feel, but I like it. It's straightforward and easy to navigate.
Jennifer Parsons

[Series] Emerging Careers in Librarianship: Data Curation « Hack Library School - 0 views

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librarians careers data_curation media librarianship Professional Development

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Data curation is defined as “the active and ongoing management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education.” (GSLIS) The volume of scientific data is growing exponentially across all scientific disciplines. This phenomenon has been termed the “data deluge.” The data deluge is now a fundamental characteristic of e-science and “big science,” especially in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, and earth and atmospheric sciences. Moreover, stakeholders are beginning to recognize the value in sharing data assets with each other and in curation of data for re-use over the long term. Competent information professionals are needed to curate this data for future research and education requirements.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 14 Jun 12
     
    After the opening keynote at our conference, this seemed relevant.  I think the need for data curation will become more and more relevant as we move to a paperless society.  Though, given the challenges of what to preserve and how, that day may be long in coming.
adrienne_mobius

Pin it! - 2 views

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Pinterest library marketing information literacy

shared by adrienne_mobius on 08 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 08 Jun 12
     
    Cynthia Dudenhoffer wrote this article in College & Research Libraries News about using Pinterest as a library marketing tool.
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