by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries When we get to the end of the year, it seems we have collectively come to express how terrible that just-ending year was. At the same time, we also tell ourselves there is no chance the...
In my role at SAGE Publishing, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to learn from Victoria Dew, founder and CEO of Dewpoint Communications. Victoria has been incredible in helping my colleagues and me cut through all of the “noise” and improve how we communicate within our organization. I spent some time with her and asked her to share some of her best advice for academic librarians who are working to ensure that their invaluable resources and services are used by students and faculty.
by Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor <dthawkins@verizon.net> Note: A summary of this article appeared in the xxx issue of Against The Grain v30 #4 on Page aa. The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) met at the Sheraton Grand...
According to Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia by Megan Zahneis, recently posted on the Chronicle of Higher Education website, "LiAnna Davis remembers when people didn’t want to talk to her at academic conferences: “I had this woman one time who held her...
Title: Licensing Electronic Resources in Academic Libraries: A Practical Handbook Authors: Corey S. Halaychik & Blake Reagan Paperback: 978-0081021071, $78.95; eBook: 9780081021088, $78.95; Bundle Print & eBook: $94.74 Imprint: Cambridge, MA : Chandos...
Title: Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know® Author: Rick Anderson Hardback: 9780190639440, $74; Paperback: 9780190639457, $16.95; Ebook: To purchase visit your preferred Ebook provider Imprint: New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 "The internet has...
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....
