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Jul 01
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and ASIDIC (formerly the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers - www.asidic.org), today jointly announced the assimilation of ASIDIC members into the NFAIS Community as a result of the dissolution of ASIDIC on June 30, 2010. the agreement will provide ASIDIC members in good standing with all NFAIS member benefits... Read more »
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Jul 01
NFAIS member organizations ProQuest and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) have announced an agreement that will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The agreement assures the database's continuing development and accessibility to researchers around th... Read more »
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Jun 04
Librarian Phil Bradley and industry analyst Stephen Arnold are two people who have found Microsoft's recent launch of social dashboard, Spindex to be of interest and potentiall... Read more »
Mar 16
Most of the information community is agreed that the higher the quality of your metadata (including the various forms of identifiers available), the more discoverable your content will be for users. That said, most users have difficulty recalling such unique identifiers as an ISBN or OCLC record number when seeking out a particular title.
That's why it was interesting to see OCLC's <... Read more »
Mar 12
With Twitter reaching 50 million tweets per day, it represents a significant platform for both information communication and dissemination purposes. Indeed, as one analyst pointed out, the Read more »
Jan 15
Anyone following the plethora of news announcements released in time for ALA Midwinter is aware that mobile is currently one of the hottest area of activity in the library environment. All the more reason then to view this video (from Ohio television news station, NBC4) that shows Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Enterprise Ar... Read more »
Nov 04
Run a search using #chsconf09 and listen to the tweets emanating from this year's Charleston Conference, a well-established conference devoted to library acquisitions and collection development. The tidbits that I gleaned this morning wer... Read more »
Oct 20
When discussing mobile access and delivery of content within the context of scholarly communication, many providers of scholarly and scientific information do not see an immediate relevance to their products and services. As a result, they choose to delay any further consideration of this new delivery channel. They just don't see the potential for now. In hindsight, this may prove to be a mi... Read more »
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Oct 15
Joan Lippincott of CNI gave a wonderful opening keynote in early October at the LITA National Forum, discussing the opportunities and challenges represented by mobile devices for those in the information community. A brief report of her comments is available here. Equally knowledgeable, L... Read more »
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Oct 12
In his talk last week at the RSuite User Conference, Jason Monberg, VP of Product Management, Mark Logic, referenced three areas where publishers might further derive value from their content, specifically delivery, agility, and conversation.
With regard to de... Read more »
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Oct 08
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Programs and Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC, points today to a report from the Libraries of University of Minnesota. It pertains to discoverability of authoritative content. (Download the full 160 page PDF,Read more »
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Sep 24
I recently came across the synthesize-specialize-mobilize blog, authored by Mark Dahl, Associate Director of Digital Initiatives and Collection Management, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College. Dahl had written an article entitled The Evolution of Library Discovery Systems which ... Read more »
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Sep 23
Today Google introduced a new element to their Google Toolbar, Google Sidewiki. It's a very simple and easy-to-use annotation tool for knowledge workers who use and refer to Web-based resources. It's got a social element to it in that annotations may be shared with others who visit t... Read more »
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Jul 13
Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow, a report sponsored by NISO and OCLC, has been released just in time for ALA in Chicago later this week. The report provides interesting insights into the various ways that bibliographic metadata is being utilized and the ramifi... Read more »
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Jul 13
Information Today drew my attention to Abe Lederman's talk at SLA and the re-launch of Deep Web Technologies' federated science portal, ScienceResearch.com. Lederman is President of Deep Web Technologies, which is also the company be... Read more »
