On Projects & Learning

One of the things I really enjoyed about working at Binghamton was the fact that I got to work on a wide variety of projects and activities – library newsletters, website development, metasearching, collections budget planning, collection development – all in addition to bread and butter e-resource management. One of the things I really enjoyed …

Reading Experiences: Kindle App

After years of purposely ignoring ebooks, seeing readers come and go out of the corner of my eye – and library collections and packages tried and rejected – I’m finally experimenting with a few new ways of consuming monograph-length content.  Today, I consider the Kindle App for iPhone. Why lug around a separate device that …

EBSCO ERM-Related Scholarships for Midwinter

EBSCO is sponsoring 5 awards for attendance at ALA Midwinter.  Applicants submit a brief essay on the topic: “What do you believe to be the biggest challenge in managing electronic resources in libraries today and what solutions do you envision?” 250 words or less – go! They are also sponsoring Annual scholarships – more info …

DeepDyve: Something You Should Know About

Dubbed “Netflix for researchers” by ReadWriteWeb, DeepDyve has expanded from deep web search of STM literature to an article rental service: for $.99 an article, you can have read access for 24 hours. Will researchers go for it?  Even independent researchers can frequently gain access to literature through the interlibrary loan service of their public …

NISO Forum – Trends and Thoughts

Earlier this month, I went to the NISO Forum on library resource management systems, which was conveniently located right here in the Financial District of Boston.  The program was fantastic, and the presentations are now available and well worth a look, even in slide format. A number of words, themes, and ideas resonated throughout the …

Customer vs. container, content vs. service

Lots of interesting ideas floating around this week about the future of publishing, much applicable and relevant to libraries. First up, the Scholarly Kitchen’s blogging of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN conference keynotes, with an interesting comment about “diffintermediation” in between. Keynote 1 by John Wilkins of Creative Commons Keynote 2 by John Maeda …