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Blog Archive
Author Archives: abigail
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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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?” … Continue reading
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NEASIST Fall Program Coming Up
The NEASIST fall program, “The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century,” looks great: speakers from libraries and publishing will be talking about meeting user expectations, success stories from libraries in a … Continue reading
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Mucking around
Playing with colors has led to funky borders. It’ll be pretty again soon. Possibly brown-free.
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Info Overload
I enjoyed viewing the Librarian in Black’s presentation slides from her talk about information overload at Internet Librarian 2009. In her blog post about the talk, she alludes to the fact that some people seem to think information overload is … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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” … Continue reading
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Day in Life: Thursday 7/30
No update for Wednesday. I stayed home with major sinus pain plus no sleep after our power went out at 9 p.m. and stayed out ALL NIGHT. As in, 9 (nine) hours. 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. On one of … Continue reading
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