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...
PALNI awards grants to fund eight open textbooks According to Library Technology Guides "The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) has awarded PALSave Textbook Creation Grants to fund eight open textbooks from faculty authors at its supported...
PALNI awards grants to fund eight open textbooks According to Library Technology Guides "The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) has awarded PALSave Textbook Creation Grants to fund eight open textbooks from faculty authors at its supported...
APA Report: US Sees Double-Digit Audiobook Sales Growth for 11th Year According to Publishing Perspectives "... the United States-based Audio Publishers Association says that audiobook revenue in the American market grew by 10 percent in 2022 to US$1.8 billion—the...
NORTH College Librarian, Colby-Sawyer College, (Lake Sunapee, NH) Head of Collection Strategies - Smith College Job Location: Massachusetts Associate Dean for Content and Discovery, UMass Amherst, (Amherst, MA) Research Librarian for the Sciences – Tufts University,...
C&RL News – June 2023 is now available According to ACRL Insider "The June 2023 issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles...." MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS...
