Nov 20
There are times when a stellar result is only achieved through cooperation across several communities. That was the case with the recent one-day program co-sponsored by NFAIS, CENDI and FLICC, The Semantic Web: Fact or Myth?. The program featured an outstanding array of speakers recruited by the... Read more »
Nov 10
NFAIS members are aware of the usefulness of Twitter for purposes of current awareness; see for example the twitter stream from NFAIS member organization, AIP. Are they aware as well of The Twitter Tim.es? A social recommendation system, TwitterTim.es looks at the tweets of ... 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 »
Nov 03
During the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) released a research report authored by Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, entitled The STM Report: An overview of scientific, and scholarly journals publishing. An update of an initial industry benchmark report done in 2006, the report delivers a positive p... Read more »
