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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 »
May 07
Aaron Tay of the National University of Singapore, blogging at Musings on Librarianship, has done a fascinating job of assessing library mobile sites with an eye... Read more »
Apr 30
There are some interesting findings and statistics in the findings from this research paper, Social Software in Academia: Three Studies on Users' Acceptance of Web 2.0 Services, presented at the WWW2010 event.
From section 4.1.2 of the paper, "How often do you use the following services for scientific... Read more »
Apr 22
Judge Denny Chin has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. This is of particular interest to those in the information community because Chin had been the judge associated with the critical litigation surrounding... Read more »
Apr 14
The other day I was using the search tool, Bing. It's important to note that the attraction of Bing (at least for me) is not necessarily the actual search results returned. Those are fine, but not necessarily superior to those from Yahoo or Google. The attraction of Bing for me is the compelling user experience. Invariably th... Read more »
Apr 09
The library profession has prided itself on the contributions that it makes in support of scholarship and pedagogy. In the current environment, there are librarians who feel that role is under-rated. Stephen Bell is one such librarian and has expressed his suspicion that the faculty and students don't get it and that libraries need to Read more »
Mar 24
When Google released Buzz last month (thereby inviting a flood of bad press on themselves), it also shifted something on my public Google profile. If you look at my public Google profile here [ http://www.google.com/profiles/jillmwo ], you will see a tab labelled "Buzz". If you click on that tab, you will see all of my sha... Read more »
Mar 17
Earlier this week, the American Chemical Society (ACS) posted a video demonstration of their 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 19
Announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston by the United Kingdom Serials Group
(UKSG) and the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO), the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools)
Working Group has published their initial set of practical
recommenda... 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 »
Jan 14
The 2010 Horizon Report (PDF download) is a collaboration between the New Media Corsortium and the Coalition for Networked Information. Although the report has not yet been formally released, Read more »
