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Wednesday 27 August 2014

Thursday 21 August 2014

Dreams-Librarian : Just How "Legal" Are Seed Libraries?

Dreams-Librarian : Just How "Legal" Are Seed Libraries?: After the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture cracked down on a community seed library, hundreds of seed libraries in the U.S. are sud...

Friday 9 May 2014

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Wednesday 12 March 2014

Beyond eBooks



Library director and administrators at all types of colleges and universities consent their libraries must educate undergraduates research skills and information literacy, however the Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2013 also suggests libraries are progressively more tailoring their services to address institutional needs.
Ithaka, a nonprofit research organization that promotes modern forms of teaching and intellectual communication, before surveyed library directors in 2010. That survey captured libraries in the middle of a complex changeover from print to electronic resources. Based on the responses of 499 institutions in the fall 2013 survey, that shift has been, “from a budget allotment outlook, almost completed.”
Yet library directors and faculty members remain split on the value of electronic collections of books and journals. Instructors are more likely to prefer ebooks -- more than 50 percent of respondents in Ithaka's 2012 faculty survey said they “play an important role” in research and teaching, while only about one-third of library directors agreed. Meanwhile, two-thirds of library directors said they “would be happy to see hard copy collections [of scholarly journals] discarded and replaced entirely by electronic collections,” compared to 40 percent of faculty members surveyed in 2012.

Dreams-Librarian : World Digital Library grows to 10,000 items

Dreams-Librarian : World Digital Library grows to 10,000 items: WASHINGTON: The World Digital Library lead by the Library of Congress in Washington reached a landmark, surpassing 10,000 items with t...