(L--R) Jason Price, Alicia Wise, Lorcan Dempsey Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, Chief Strategist, OCLC, began with an overview of three contextual areas where our environment is changing: colleges, consortia, collections. Libraries are not...
Cynthia Graham Hurd was a librarian who tragically lost her life in the shooting at the AME church in 2005. This scholarship was established in her honor and this year it was presented to
Brewster Kahle The opening keynote was by Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive. He began by noting that in our current era of disinformation, ready access to trustworthy information sources is critical. “Fake...
Lisa Hinchliffe This special session was the third Trendspotting Lab, following the first one at Charleston last year and one at the SSP 2019 conference last June in San Diego. As before, it was led by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe from the University of Illinois at Urbana....
Welcome to the blog for the 39th Charleston Library Conference! The pre-conferences began on Monday, November 4 and continued on the following day. Pat Hawkins (L) and Leah Hinds at the Information Desk We hope that you didn't miss the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday,...
So we bid farewell to the 2018 Charleston Conference. It was excellent, with many current topics in the information industry being discussed. I have enjoyed bringing you reports of various sessions, but with over 200 of them, there are lots more that I could not...
For the closing session, Erin Gallagher, Director of Collection Services, Reed College Library, returned to conduct the 5th “Poll-a-Palooza”. (According to the Urban Dictionary, a Palooza is “an all-out crazy party, partying at one place with a ton of people like...
This session was one of two Innovation Lightning Sessions (unfortunately they were scheduled concurrently). It featured six presentations on new ways to solve problems or new technologies in libraries. David Brennan (Co-Interim Director and Head, Technical Services...
“The State of Open Data 2021 – Global Attitudes Towards Open Data” Published Today According to infoDOCKET "Figshare, Digital Science, and Springer Nature’s annual State of Open Data report finds increasing concern among researchers about misuse of data as well as a...
TITLE: Confessions of a BooksellerAUTHOR: Shaun BythellHARDCOVER: ISBN: 978-1567926644, $25.95IMPRINT: Boston: David R. Godine, 2020. "Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun...
"Life’s Too Short to Finish Books You Don’t Like" appears in Vogue and is by Michelle Ruiz is a Vogue.com contributing editor. "I recently lunched with a dear friend and fellow voracious reader on her 94th birthday. We had both absolutely adored Bess Kalb’s memoir, No...
A New Guide From LIBER: “Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public” infoDOCKET reports that "The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first section of their Citizen Science for Research...
NORTHEAST Electronic Resources Specialist, Swarthmore College, PA Head of Library Community Engagement, Brown University, Providence, RI Evening Circulation and Reserves Supervisor, Baker Berry Library, Dartmouth College(NH) Islamic Manuscript Project...
