By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Alexandra Lange, writing on the Bloomberg website in March 2020, reminded her readers that “between 1991 and 2011, the U.S. lost 1,000 chain bookstores.” A story...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries BOOKTOK’S ROLE IN THE EVOLVING NATURE OF READING In an editorial published in the March 2022 issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Prior to the beginnings of the COVID pandemic, studies found decreasing numbers of people reading for leisure. The American Psychological Association reporting...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries In a new 2022 Scientometrics assessment of the three core citation indexes – Web of Science, Dimensions and Scopus – German scientists concluded that “WoS largely...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Throughout the long history of scientific research and reporting, theories that have formed and continue to evolve about the influence and value of prior research...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries In 2021, the apps that used photos and videos to create their user experiences dominated the social app industry. BookTok isn’t the only book-specific social...
NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information CCC is unveiling key findings from “Information Seeking and Consumption Study,” which is based on data gathered by Outsell. They include the following: [P]otential instances of unlicensed sharing per...
Library of Congress Opens New Web Archive Collection Documenting Protests Against Racism & Learn About LC’s Black History Month Programs Citing the Library of Congress Newsroom, infoDOCKET reports "A new web archive collection from the Library of Congress...
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
