(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...
NORTH Library Systems Analyst, Boston University Libraries, MA Discovery Services Manager, Boston University Libraries, Boston MA Digital Technologies Librarian, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Electronic Resources and Discovery Librarian, Sawyer Library, Suffolk...
University of Maryland: 3 iSchool Professors Awarded $1.4M to Develop Library and Archival Service Citing Maryland Today, infoDOCKET reports that "Three College of Information Studies faculty members have been awarded a total of $1.4 million from the Institute of...
"How to fall back in love with reading" is by Alissa Wilkinson and appears in Vox. "I doubt you need to be told you should be reading more. There’s a good chance you struggle to make time for reading, and it feels like just another obligation, like hitting your daily...
NISO awarded IMLS grant for collaborative collections lifecycle project Library Technology Guides reports that "The National Information Standards Organization, the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, and Lehigh University Libraries,...
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use The Library of Congress Newsroom reports that "Culminating over two years of software development and extensive user-experience testing, the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office have opened...
