by Donald Hawkins | May 9, 2022 | Full Text Articles
Against the Grain V34#2 The Miles Conrad lecture has been a highlight of NISO conferences, and NFAIS meetings. It was established to honor the memory of G. Miles Conrad who was director of Biological Abstracts, (now BIOSIS Previews). In 1957 he organized a...
by Donald Hawkins | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Full Text Articles
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) When the organizers of the 17th Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) Conference, Bonnie Tijerina, her sister Sandy, and Conference Planner Danielle Sell, began to plan the event scheduled for...
by Donald Hawkins | Dec 8, 2021 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight
By: Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger Information Today’s 2021 Internet Librarian conference, was scheduled for October 26-28 in Monterey, CA, but because of COVID it became a totally virtual event. This was the 25th Internet Librarian...
by Donald Hawkins | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog Posts, Full Text Articles
By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor This virtual seminar organized by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) occurred on October 5-6, 2021 and was entitled “How to Move Fast and Not Break Things: Balancing High-Speed Outputs at the risk...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 8, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
And so we have come to the end of the 2021 Charleston Conference–the first fully hybrid one. Judging from various comments, it was very successful. Now we look forward to 2022, and we hope it returns to its “new normal.” So stay safe and don’t...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 5, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
Sandy Avila, Science Librarian and Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services Librarian, both at the University of Central Florida coordinated the immensely popular closing session. The Palooza featured questions to which the audience answered using polling software. Here...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 5, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver, described studies about the value of the Big Deal. He presented a report last year on a study of the growth in OA publishing,but that does not have an effect on Big Deals. According to Delta Think, the...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 5, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
Erin Gallagher and Jason Heckathorn from the Acquisitions and Collections Department in the library at the University of Florida said that they like others were required to work from home.in March 2020 which was in a hiring freeze. There were 3 open positions, and...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 5, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
This session is traditionally one of the most popular at Charleston Conferences. For many years, it has been moderated by Ann Okerson, now Sr. Advisor at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and features two other legal experts discussing a range of legal issues...
by Donald Hawkins | Nov 5, 2021 | Charleston Conference Notes
Innovation Sessions focus on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries and consist of 5 -minute presentations. ChronosHub: An OA management system to navigate the complexities, best practices, collaboration, standardization, and automation of information....