Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Sun, 27 May 2012 17:23:24 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released its annual salary survey today which showed academic librarians' salaries in 2010-2011 increased 1.5 percent in the United States and two percent in Canada. In its ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010-2011, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/893123-419/arl_salary_survey_u.s._academic.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 856198@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:45 In this Article Mapping Clemson's Road Ahead Road Map Resources The bricks and mortar of academic libraries are seemingly permanent, yet the activities and services they are designed to deliver have been radically transformed in recent years. Mor... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892659-419/clemsons_road_map.html.csp AcademicLibraries 841972@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:20:30 Photo by Debora Miller Last week I sat down with a faculty member to plan out an instruction session. She wanted to bring her first term seminar students to the library so they could learn how to publish their ideas to the world. The topic of the semin... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892690-419/its_simple_open_access_open.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 842632@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:05 Sometimes we academic librarians get down on ourselves. We may think our future outlook is bleak. We may even think we're facing an imminent crisis. We may believe that it's because no one appreciates what we do—or even knows what we do, for that matter. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892584-419/they_really_really_like_us.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 839850@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:05 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892765-419/library_copyright_alliance_voices_concerns.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 844688@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:20:04 Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries recently announced that it was merging its University Archives and Special Collections units as part of an overall reorganization of OSU and its libraries which began in 2009. The merger, which began following the r... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892646-419/oregon__state_merges_archives.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 841640@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:19:56 Photo by Debora Miller In the first news stories, the fact that Occupy Wall Street had a library seemed a bit whimsical, sort of like that iconic photo of a dancer perched on the back of the equally iconic statue of a charging bull. How funny! A libr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892578-419/why_the_occupy_wall_street.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 839844@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:19:55 (Editor's note: Since the initial publication of this article, the W3C has published permanent links to the final report and the supporting reports.) The number of influential libraries publishing their metadata onto the web as linked open data, which is ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891826-265/how_the_w3c_has_come.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 814469@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:19:49 The video archives of the first LJ Future of the Academic Library Symposium, held in partnership with McMaster University, have been edited and posted (see embedded below). The videos cover sessions from the day-long program, held May 17, 2011 at McMaster... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892494-419/ljmcmaster_future_of_the_academic.html.csp Josh Hadro AcademicLibraries 836998@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:19:44 You are probably familiar with the phrase "Every librarian a leader." A search on the phrase indicates it's commonly used to share the idea that in order to propel this profession forward, we need to take the initiative when we see opportunities to creat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892200-265/academic_librarians_are_grassroots_campus.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 827433@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:30 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892285-265/lita_national_forum_2011_practically.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 830446@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:19:29 A number of recent announcements have greatly expanded the research bandwidth available to investigate the pool of orphan works in the HathiTrust collections—a fact that could stir discussion on orphan works access, both in and out of academia. On August ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891836-265/hathitrust_orphan_works_project_grows.html.csp Josh Hadro AcademicLibraries 815496@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27 Today, in separate announcements, OCLC and EBSCO both unveiled plans to integrate full-text HathiTrust search capability into WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), respectively. Once implemented, the deals will make the full texts of all of the 9.5 ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891965-265/hathitrusts_growth_strategy_full-text_search.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 818584@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27 The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) recently unveiled a new perk for its incoming students: the LifeTime Library, in which SILS students will receive free web-based data storage space, h... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892201-265/unc_project_offers_lis_students.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 827508@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, will undergo a two-year, $20 million modernization beginning this fall. The project will include building renovations and a program of cataloging and digitization. "Scholars interested ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892177-265/phillips_library_at_peabody_essex.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 826575@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 1) How To Write a Sentence: And How To Read One  Fish, Stanley   Harpercollins  2011. ISBN 9780061840548. $19.99 2) Conversation and Gender  Speer, Susan A.  Cambridge University Press  2011. ISBN 9780521873826. $99 3) White Kids: Language, Race, and Styl... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892162-265/best_sellers_in_language.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 825827@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 As part of the ongoing expansion of its ebook offerings, EBSCO Publishing recently announced 64 new ebook subject sets. Customer feedback and requests for particular subject areas "played a large role" in the new selections, according to the announcement.... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892161-265/ebsco_rolls_out_64_new.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 825819@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 Photo by Debora Miller An article this week in Inside Higher Ed about a dispute at a private church-related university over the termination of some long-term library staff members kicked off some interesting discussions about leadership, professional d... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892197-265/what_do_we_want_change.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 827290@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American writer and human rights activist will place his archive with Duke University, school officials announced on September 20. Dorfman holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke, where... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892191-265/duke_university_obtains_ariel_dorfman.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 827182@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 What if I told you there was a potentially smarter, better, and faster way to build a new library—a process that could maximize innovation and deliver on long-term sustainability goals? Sounds pretty good, right? What if the same process could possibl... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891737-265/a_whole_systems_approach_integrated.html.csp Rebekkah Aldrich. AcademicLibraries 810686@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 The University of Western Ontario (UWO) Board of Governors and the UWO Faculty Association Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA) bargaining unit announced today that they have ratified a new collective agreement, in which the 51 librarians and archivists r... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892147-265/uwo_librarian_strike_ends_as.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 825521@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 OhioLINK and OCLC Research released on September 21 what is likely the largest and most comprehensive study of academic library circulation ever undertaken. Among the more interesting findings, the "80/20" rule, which says that 80 percent of a library's c... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892196-265/oclc_and_ohiolink_release_extensive.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 827280@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:23 (This story was updated from an earlier version to include the video from King County Public Library System)  Amazon and OverDrive, the Cleveland-based company that is the major distributor of ebooks to the library market, announced today that more than 1... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892118-265/amazon_and_overdrive_roll_out.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 824231@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:19:21 EBSCO recently announced its serials price projections for academic and academic/medical libraries to be "in the range of 4 to 6 percent" for 2012—the same increase that EBSCO had projected for 2011. The estimate in its report [PDF] was based on recent in... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892115-265/ebsco_projects_4_to_6.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 824134@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:19:21 "Ebooks: The New Normal," a virtual summit hosted by Library Journal and School Library Journal, will take place October 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The first virtual Ebook Summit drew participants from over 435 academic libraries in the United States and ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892128-265/ebook_summit_focuses_on_patron.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 824638@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:19:21 An agreement signed September 19 in Brussels could make it possible for European libraries and cultural institutions to acquire the licenses necessary to digitize "out-of-commerce" books and journals in their collections and make them accessible online vi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892130-265/european_commission_agreement_a_major.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 824650@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:19:21 Photo by Debora Miller My father wrote the book on news editing-literally. He started his journalism career at a small town weekly in North Dakota, where he got a job as a printer's devil at age 12, becoming a reporter, editor, and salesman before he l... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892131-265/if_its_e_it_leads.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 824672@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:19:16 In a recent meeting with colleagues from other academic and research libraries the conversation turned to data management in general and the recent NSF proposal changes in specific that require data management plans that indicate how the researcher intend... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892129-265/our_worst_nightmare_-_the.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 824649@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:19:16 1) Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals  Dunmur, David  Oxford University Press  2011. ISBN 9780199549405. $53.95 2) Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc  Aldersey-Williams, Hugh  Ecco: Harper... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892103-265/best_sellers_in_chemistry.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 823724@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:19:16 The University of Michigan (UM) Library today released a statement announcing that it would be examining its "flawed" pilot process for identifying orphan works, putting its HathiTrust orphan works project effectively on hold. This follows reaction about ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892061-265/university_of_michigan_puts_hathitrust.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 822635@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:19:16 The Authors Guild—along with Australian and Canadian authors' organizations and eight individual authors—filed suit yesterday against the HathiTrust digital repository and five of its member universities to stop them from "reproducing, distributing and/or... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892021-265/copyright_clash_authors_guild_and.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 820486@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:19:07 1) Autobiography of Mark Twain. Vol. 1  Twain, Mark  University of California Press  2010. ISBN 9780520267190. $34.95 2) J.D. Salinger: A Life  Slawenski, Kenneth  Random House  2011. ISBN 9781400069514. $27 3) Shakespeare Survey. Vol. 63: Shakespeare's E... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892011-265/best_sellers_in_literature.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 819520@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:19:07 Librarians in small and rural communities can often feel isolated—geographically and professionally—and overwhelmed by the variety of roles they must play at their small libraries. Whether starting the day with a reference question or a toilet plunger, th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892015-265/2011_arsl_conference_overcoming_isolation.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 819742@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:19:07 The University of Michigan (UM) Library will soon begin making digital versions of orphan works in its collection available to the UM community—setting precedent for the fair use of orphan works that could influence policies at other institutions, includi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891091-265/orphan_works_wager_university_of.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 789641@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:19:03 No one knows for sure if higher education is the next "on-the-bubble" industry that is about to burst, but there certainly is considerable concern about the sustainability of traditional higher education. It's not that anyone suspects the top tier institu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891876-265/to_fix_higher_education_start.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 816670@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:19:02 The board of directors of the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET) recently approved a plan to create the DALNET Digital Archive Repository, which will contain full digitized texts as well as audio and image files. It is expected to be rolled out next ye... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891948-265/dalnet_unveils_plans_for_digital.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 818008@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:19:02 The JSTOR journal archive announced today that it is making nearly 500,000 public domain journal articles from more than 220 journals—or about six percent of JSTOR's total content—freely available for use by "anyone, without registration and regardless of... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891947-265/jstor_announces_free_access_to.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 817959@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 The Joint Steering Committee for the Development of the Resource Description and Access(RDA) cataloging code has updated its presentations page to include sessions from the Georgia Cataloging Summit held in Helen, GA, August 9-10. The three U.S. national... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891916-265/rda_presentations_made_at_georgia.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 817206@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 Two strong candidates have been selected for the 2013-14 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA), Gina J. Millsap and Barbara K. Stripling. Gina Millsap Millsap is the CEO of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library in Topeka, KS... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891884-265/millsap_and_stripling_to_vie.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 816733@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 The Department of Justice (DOJ) began in August to make available to the public digitized versions of legislative histories that have been compiled over the years by the DOJ library staff. The histories, previously only available to DOJ employees as multi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891930-265/department_of_justice_makes_digitized.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 817611@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 1) Oxford Atlas of the World. 17th ed.  Oxford University Press  2010. ISBN 9780199751280. $80 2) An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science  Larson, Edward J.  Yale University Press  2011. ISBN 9780300154085. $28 3) Magn... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891863-265/best_sellers_in_geography.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 816485@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 The Europeana Libraries project began September 5 to aggregate the first of the five million digital objects that the initiative envisions collecting from some of Europe's leading research and university libraries, including the University of Oxford's Bo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891926-265/europeana_libraries_project_begins_to.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 817461@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill libraries are trying to adjust to a new budget that the university librarian fears could hamper research and weaken the library's technology infrastructure. The FY12 budget, which began July 1, reduces... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891847-265/university_of_north_carolina_libraries.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 816013@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 In deciding what to write about this week I sought to stay true to the guiding philosophy behind FTBT, which is to think differently when it comes to each column and to make an effort to come up with something truly original. That's when I got a great id... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891831-265/just_be_amazingly_different_and.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 815115@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of 30 of the largest research organizations in the UK and Ireland, revealed a new tool at a July workshop that will allow its members to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of "big deals" --- the large aggregations o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891833-265/rluk_develops_journal_subscription_analysis.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 815244@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:19:00 Oxford University Press announced September 1 that all Oxford journals will have a mobile-optimized version of their full journal website that can be accessed via multiple mobile devices. "Mobile-optimized websites for our journals allow academics, stude... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891869-265/oxford_university_press_offers_mobile-optimized.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 816544@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:19:00 It's unfortunate that some folks are already planning for the demise of the college library. After all, once all books are electronic within the next five years, according to this article, colleges will be able to repurpose the library building for someth... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891794-265/quantifying_the_value_of_higher.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 812130@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Photo by Debora Miller Last week I mentioned the pleasures of getting involved in faculty development activities at the start of the academic year. This year, as workshop week winds down, I was struck by how many questions came up that have to do with... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891835-265/that_would_be_a_no.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 815395@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 1) The Anthology of Rap  Bradley, Adam  Yale University Press  2010. ISBN 9780300141900. $35 2) A General Theory of Visual Culture  Davis, Whitney  Princeton University Press  2011. ISBN 9780691147659. $55 3) Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abus... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891806-265/best_sellers_in_music_and.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 813236@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 A patent infringement lawsuit involving two major players in the library automation market was resolved on August 11. EnvisionWare, based in Duluth, GA, and 3M, based in St. Paul, agreed to a confidential settlement of the lawsuit that was filed in the U.... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891643-265/3m_and_envisionware_settle_patent.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 807988@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Charles B. Lowry will retire as Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) at the end of December 2012, according to a press release from ARL. Lowry was appointed Executive Director in 2008 for a three-year term, which was extende... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891771-265/charles_lowry_to_retire_as.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 811435@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Sony unveiled its latest ereader device today, Reader Wi-Fi, which will be the first dedicated ereader—though not the first device—to offer wireless borrowing of OverDrive library ebook titles. The Reader Wi-Fi, which the company calls "the lightest touch... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891828-265/sony_announces_first_dedicated_ereader.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 814786@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 The need for libraries on college and university campuses has increased, according to a new study released by the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Research and Statistics. In "Trends in Academic Libraries, 1998 to 2008," Denise M. Davis an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891774-265/report_shows_increased_need_for.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 811490@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:18:49 Unionized librarians and archivists at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, ON, Canada, have set a strike deadline for September 8—the first day of classes at UWO—as bargaining continues with university administration over staffing and compen... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891793-265/librarian_strike_at_university_.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 812131@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:18:48 Photo by Debora Miller When I took my current faculty position 25 years ago, I took advantage of faculty development opportunities on offer. One thing that surprised me about them was that a number of the most invested and thoughtful attendees were not... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891792-265/back_to_school_new_findings.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 812105@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:18:48 What's the first thing you notice when you step on to a new college campus? A sweeping view of magnificent buildings-or the cracks in the parking lot blacktop? Beautiful landscaping on the idyllic quad--or weeds growing up through the uneven sidewalk? ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891595-265/when_deferred_maintenance_rears_its.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 806330@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:18:48 Photo by Debora Miller It turns out book publishing isn't crashing and burning after all. A new report out from the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group finds that over the past three years and during the worst recession... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891596-265/unsinkable__peer_to_peer.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 806363@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:18:48 A U.S. appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling on Monday, August 15, that held the first sale doctrine applies only to works manufactured in the United States. The decision has the potential to undermine libraries' ability to lend foreign printed book... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891663-265/court_rules_first_sale_doctrine.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 808820@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:18:48 The public library in Chattanooga is reshaping itself in several significant ways: --- On July 1, the city let expire a relationship with Hamilton County and took over responsibility for full funding of the local library. --- Library service at the Ooltew... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891636-265/chattanoogas_library_ends_partnership_with.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 807594@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:47 The Library of Congress (LC) will be offering targeted buyouts to 349 of its nearly 4000 employees, in the wake of an agreement reached on August 10 between LC and three employee labor organizations, according to recent reports by Roll Call and Government... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891717-265/reports_lc_to_offer_buyouts.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 810228@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:47 Ebrary announced August 22 the following new university press publishing partners: University of Arizona Press University of New Mexico Press University of Illinois Press University of Oklahoma Press Wayne State University Press Michigan State University... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891773-265/ebrary_announces_new_university_press.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 811485@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:47 Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library starting in September, according to a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891772-265/elaine_tennant_selected_to_head.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 811464@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:47 1) Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses  Arum, Richard   University of Chicago Press  2011. ISBN 9780226028552. $70 2) The Right To Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools  Biegel, Stuart  Universit... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891715-265/best_sellers_in_education.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 810140@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:47 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to a project to be led by the Data to Insight Center (D2I) at Indiana University (IU), exploring ways of conducting secure "non-consumptive" research using copyrighted digital works in the HathiT... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891609-265/600k_grant_to_fund_indiana.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 807084@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:18:42 EBSCO Publishing recently announced a new partnership with library automation company Innovative Interfaces (III) to provide the option of accessing EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search results via III's Encore Discovery platform. Though the functionality... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891640-265/innovative_ebsco_agree_to_cross-pollination.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 807882@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:18:42 The University of Kansas (KU), which in June 2009 became the first U.S. public university to adopt an open access (OA) policy regarding scholarly research in peer-reviewed journals, recently announced that it had spearheaded the formation of a 22-member C... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891535-265/open_access_coalition_formed_by.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 804536@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:18:34 Librarians at the University of Minnesota have stepped up to help researchers manage their digital data and, in the process, have highlighted the value of the University Libraries within the larger institution. Under the direction of Lisa Johnston, a rese... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891540-265/librarians_at_university_of_minnesota.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 804625@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:18:33 ProQuest announced today that it has acquired London-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses, an electronic database of bibliographic information of British and Irish theses dating back to 1716. Financial details of the transaction were no... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891523-265/proquest_acquires_publisher_of_u.k.s.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 804163@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:18:28 The library at New York University (NYU) was recently awarded a $1,094,996 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a partnership of three academic libraries to combine features of two archives management systems—Archon and the Archivist's Toolk... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891481-265/grant-funded__university_project_to.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 802502@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:18:28 The nonprofit Comfort for America's Uniformed Services' (CAUSE) Digital Entertainment Libraries went live last week with an open source Koha integrated library system following a year-long migration with support by ByWater Solutions. The libraries, which ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891475-265/nonprofit_brings_open_source_ils.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 802230@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:18:28 The roof beam of a new bibliographic framework has been raised high and likely will be nailed into place in the not too distant future. The three U.S. national libraries --- the Library of Congress (LC), the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the Nat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891482-265/cataloging_community_galvanized_as_u.s..csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 802512@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:18:28 1) The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery  Foner, Eric  W.W. Norton  2010. ISBN 9780393066180. $29.95 2) The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom  Morozov, Evgeny  Public Affairs: Perseus  2011. ISBN 9781586488741. $27.95 3) The ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891305-265/best_sellers_in_politicslaw.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 795248@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:18:20 Photo by Debora Miller When Aaron Swartz, an open information activist, was indicted by federal prosecutors for downloading as much of JSTOR as he could using a laptop computer wired into MIT's servers (and of course without authorization from JSTOR or... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891431-265/inside_the_shadow_factory_.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 800798@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:18:20 Do you think that $180,000 is an outrageously high salary for the president of a community college? Given what we know about the salaries of deans at ARL libraries, it doesn't seem all the outrageous to me. What if you threw in a few perks? It still doesn... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891430-265/mad_as_hell_at_higher.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 800760@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:18:20 Research Libraries UK (RLUK), which represents 30 British research libraries, is pledging to cut through "the barbed wire thrown up by journal publishers around scholarly research." David Prosser, the group's executive director, wrote the above phrase in ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891432-265/british_research_libraries_draw_line.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 800801@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:18:20 Patrons at Cornell University Library and Columbia University Libraries can now take out materials from both libraries. The reciprocal arrangement, announced July 15, is the first program of its kind between Ivy League institutions, according to a press r... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891429-265/cornell_and_columbia_announce_new.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 800701@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:18:20 Even as all eyes focus on the stalemate over the debt ceiling, the House of Representatives has been assiduously working on bills that, if unchanged, would have a deleterious effect on information resources at the Government Printing Office and the Census... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891422-265/bill_passed_by_house_would.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 800137@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:18:19 A new digital format promises to upend the traditional PDF, bringing live interactivity to static documents. Created by Wolfram Research, makers of the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine, the Computable Document Format (CDF) enables users to intera... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891371-265/wolfram_launches_pdf_killer.html.csp Chelsey Philpot AcademicLibraries 798179@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:18:19 Aaron Swartz, former tech lead for the Internet Archive's Open Library project and founder of the progressive activist group Demand Progress, was indicted today in federal court for allegedly stealing approximately 4.8 million articles from the Massachuse... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891366-265/open_information_activist_indicted_for.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 797648@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:18:19 University of Florida (UF) Libraries yesterday announced that it has become the latest academic library to join the HathiTrust digital repository—and the third library, after those of the University of Michigan (UM) and the University of Wisconsin (UW), t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891334-265/university_of_florida_libraries_joins.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 796478@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:18:07 For the extended version of this article, see the original that ran in LJ's Academic Newswire I had a great lesson in misperception correction not long ago as I was writing an LJ post called “A Rising Tide: The Academic User and the Ebook Experience” (se... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/890975-265/unlocking_hathitrust_inside_the_librarians.html.csp Char Booth AcademicLibraries 785609@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:18:07 When the LJ folks first invited me to contribute this column they said I could write about anything I wanted. Freedom is nice, but three years later I have rarely deviated from the intersection of higher education and academic libraries. This week, how... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891226-265/dont_forget_the_snow_globe.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 793140@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 Photo by Debora Miller I've been following a rather intriguing series of blog posts on what's wrong with journal publishing by pmr (who, I finally realized, is Peter Murray-Rust - his blog does not have the typical author information one usually finds ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891319-265/scholarly_communication_a_devils_dictionary.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 795924@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 Incoming freshman at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, don't have to go on a guided tour to learn more about their school's library services. Instead the staff at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library can point their patrons toward another instructiv... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891197-265/animated_game_created_by_librarians.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 792429@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed the FY12 California state budget on June 30, the last day of the fiscal year, and it contains a double dose of bad news for public library funding. The budget also contains massive cuts to the state's higher education s... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891201-265/in_california_all_state_funding.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 792584@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 Library automation company Innovative Interfaces (III) today announced agreements with 25 academic and public libraries to become partners in or early implementers of its Sierra Services Platform development initiative. Sierra is III's forthcoming integra... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891253-265/innovative_announces_25_development_partners.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 793768@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 ProQuest LLC announced today a change in its top ranks. According to a company press release, Kurt Sanford is going to join the company on July 13 as chief executive officer and as a member of its board of directors. He will succeed Marty Kahn, who will b... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891200-265/new_ceo_named_at_proquest.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 792579@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 1) Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong  Duffy, Rosaleen  Yale University Press  2010. ISBN 9780300154344. $42 2) The Diversity of Life  Wilson, Edward O.  Belknap: Harvard University Press  2010. ISBN 9780674058170. $21.95 3) Fragile Web: W... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891199-265/best_sellers_in_biology.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 792567@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 Every few months I meet with representatives of many academic presses and, a glutton for learning, I come away excited—even feeling more intensely alive—by their offerings for the next season. Yet, as a serious general reader, I have small patience for... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891096-265/university_press_preview_fall_and.html.csp Josh Hadro AcademicLibraries 789937@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:18:05 How do you define an entitled student? Let me try. I started out in academic librarianship as a reference librarian at the Lippincott Library at the University of Pennsylvania. That just happens to be the library that serves the students at the Wharton Sc... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891174-265/entitled_students_are_ruining_higher.html.csp Steven Bell AcademicLibraries 791668@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:17:52 TALKING TRENDS A five-member panel of experts (center) drew a crowd during LITA's Top Technology Trends presentation at the ALA Annual Conference, moderated by Jason Vaughan, LITA Top Tech Trends committee chair and director of library technologies at the... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891161-265/ala_annual_2011_top_tech.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 791204@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:17:52 Photo by Debora Miller A few weeks ago, a colleague and I conducted a workshop for a dozen faculty who wanted to think about how what we call information literacy, for want of a better term, fits in their courses, in their majors, and in lifelong learn... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891173-265/more_than_information_more_than.html.csp Barbara Fister AcademicLibraries 791663@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:17:52 1) The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires  Wu, Tim  Alfred A. Knopf  2010. ISBN 9780307269935. $27.95 2) Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future  Reich, Robert B.  Alfred A. Knopf  2010. ISBN 9780307592811. $25 3) Globalizat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891093-265/best_sellers_in_businesseconomics.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 789764@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:17:51 Photo by Debora Miller One of our current projects is launching a new look for our library's website, and that always is an occasion for spring cleaning. Open up a root directory, and it's like pulling out that kitchen drawer that always gets stuck bec... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891088-265/looking_backward__peer_to.html.csp Barbara Fister AcademicLibraries 789519@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:17:45 No academic librarian would think twice about the value of designing an information literacy initiative to help students improve their research skills. There's also growing acceptance that academic librarians should play a role in helping campus community... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891086-265/promoting_financial_literacy_for_college.html.csp Steven Bell AcademicLibraries 789475@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:17:45 1) What Technology Wants  Kelly, Kevin  Viking  2010. ISBN 9780670022151. $27.95 2) The Cellphone: The History and Technology of the Gadget That Changed the World  Klemens, Guy  McFarland  2010. ISBN 9780786458677. $35 3) A History of the Internet and the... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891077-265/best_sellers_in_engineeringtechnology.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 788903@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:17:44 In the run up to the American Library Association's annual conference in New Orleans, which begins Thursday, a number of companies have announced product news. In addition to stories reported separately by LJ on EBSCO's Novelist striking a deal with Goodr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891087-265/as_ala_conference_approaches_companies.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 789495@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:17:44 The state librarian of Kansas, with the backing of state attorney general's office, is planning to terminate the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with ebook vendor OverDrive and is asserting the bold argument that the consortium has purchased,... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891052-265/kansas__state_librarian_argues.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 788216@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:17:44 The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has joined the fray over the right of libraries to engage in international interlibrary loan and document delivery. The ICOLC released a statement today critical of the position staked out on June 8... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891083-265/coalition_of_library_consortia_joins.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 789282@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:17:44 LYRASIS, the largest U.S. regional nonprofit library membership organization, recently announced a new program, LYRASIS Technology Services (LTS), aimed at providing education and training for open source library software. It will also provide member libr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891045-265/lyrasis_technology_services_program_aims.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 787914@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:17:39 Photo by Debora Miller I recently attended my first unconference. I know, unconferences and library camps are not new—they've been around long enough there's even a book that explains how they work—but the concept is still so novel in academia that I g... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891022-265/putting_the_un_in_understanding.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 787236@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 Photos by Kevin Henegan Blaise Simqu, president and CEO of SAGE Publications, has had two careers at the company, the first starting out as an editor in 1986. At the time SAGE was still known largely as a social science publisher. Simqu returned to ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/890762-265/sages_blaise_simqu__corner.html.csp Francine Fialkoff AcademicLibraries 777864@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 The founder of the Internet Archive (IA), Brewster Kahle, recently announced via a blog post that IA had officially launched what Kahle called "the Physical Archive of the Internet Archive." It's a new direction for the digitization-centered IA, and, as K... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891027-265/the_internet_archives_physical_archive.html.csp David Rapp AcademicLibraries 787383@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 However engaging, thought-provoking, and even polarizing the speakers were at the Future of Academic Libraries Symposium presented by McMaster University and Library Journal, they couldn’t match what five McMaster University students had to say. “Hear... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/890764-265/listening_to_student_voices_.html.csp Michael Stephens AcademicLibraries 777894@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 On the first night of an Academic Librarianship course I used to teach at Drexel, I would routinely share some advice with the students. I told them that much of what we discussed about the world of higher education would quickly be of little use to them ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891021-265/hey_new_academic__librarian.html.csp Rebecca Miller AcademicLibraries 787215@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 1) Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other  Turkle, Sherry  Basic Books: Perseus  2011. ISBN 9780465010219. $28.95 2) The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom  Morozov, Evgeny  Public Affairs  2011. ISBN 9781... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/890976-265/best_sellers_in_social_sciences.html.csp Bette-Lee Fox AcademicLibraries 785617@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:38 A battle is brewing between research libraries and an association of academic publishers over the right to engage in international interlibrary loans and document delivery, both well-established library practices that are increasingly important to scholar... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/891002-265/research_libraries_publishers_stake_out.html.csp Michael Kelley AcademicLibraries 786322@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:36 I had a great lesson in misperception correction not long ago as I was writing a LJ post called "A Rising Tide: The Academic User and the Ebook Experience," which examined academic ebooks from a (critical) user perspective. The inspiration for this articl... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/890917-265/unlocking_hathitrust_inside_the_librarians.html.csp Josh Hadro AcademicLibraries 783776@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:17:32