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NIH Library Begins Beta Test of Metasearch Tool

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Think metasearch with the beta release of the NIH Library AllPlus Search Demo.

In a single search click you’re able to retrieve results from PubMed, MedlinePlus, and the NIH Library Catalog. You can also personalize the search by selecting which databases you want to search. Look for the “select sources” box located directly next to the search button. To the left of the search box is a drop down menu where you can select searches limited to keywords, title, or author.

After you click search and before the results appear you’ll see each database being tapped with the number of records retrieved.

Here’s are search results for H1N1

Results pages contain a great deal of info and appear a bit busy making it a small challenge to actually find the search results. But that’s why this is a beta.

+ At the top of the results page is “Explore and Discover” offers related terms that are hyperlinked.

+ Below “Explore and Discover” are the numerical totals of how many results were retrieved by the engine

+ In the left margin are what appears to be dynamically generated categories that allow you to focus your search and potentially find relationships that could not be seen reviewing one result at a time. Categories can be sorted by topics, source, or topics graph. Selecting the topics graph opens a new window and provides (we think? Topics Graph did not work when we tried it) a visualized view of the categories).

+ In the middle column are the actual search results with the database source listed below the snippet. At the top of the results column a drop down menu let’s you sort results by relevance or date. What does date mean? The day the page was created? The day the page was first crawled? The date it was last updated? The date the page was last crawled? You’ll also notice a magnifying glass icon next to the title of each result. Click it and a box will appear with the actual page you want to view. In other words, you never leave the results page.

+ The third column contains hypertext links to other databases (Worldcat.org; USA.gov; PubMed Central and many others) and the number of results they contain for your search term. Click and run the search in the selected database. So, in reality, AllPlus Search allows you to quickly find results from more than three databases. Results from Ask, Google, and Yahoo are also available here.

Finally, for our H1N1 search you’ll find images (from Google Images) in the fourth column.
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At this point, we were unable to find any search documentation or help pages.

This is an early beta that we will check often for changes and updates. Many of the issues are aesthetic rather than technical.

We’ve learned that the technology that powers AllPlus search comes from HealthMash (federated search and clustering) from WebLib. It also utilizes the new HealthMash Knowledge Base. This technology, also from WebLib, powers the “Explore and Discover” related terms at the top of all results pages.

Here’s a January, 2009 interview that Hope Lehman from AltSearchEngines did with Weblib CEO, Endre Jofoldi.

Access the NIH Library AllPlus Search Demo

Source: NIH Library Blog
Hat Tip: Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines

UPDATE: The All-Plus search beta now allows you to decide via links on the home page which type of data or format your looking for before entering search terms and clicking search.

+ Basic Search
+ News
+ Video Evidence-based Medicine
+ Academic Web
+ Alternative Medicine
+ Animal Studies
+ Drugs and Chemicals
+ Search Engines (Lets the searcher quickly identify the number of results in each database), somewhat similar to DIALINDEX (File 411)
+ Images
+ Consumer Health

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Just Released by Library of Congress: Reports on Bibliographic Record Production

Friday, October 30th, 2009

From the News Release:

The Library of Congress is releasing today the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries.

The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H., to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability. Paired with the study online is a report of an internal working group indicating how recommendations from “On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control” may be implemented at the Library. Both reports are available at www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/.

R2 summarizes its 10 findings concerning Library of Congress cataloging and how it supports bibliographic-description needs across the U.S. and Canada. The report indicates there is adequate cataloging capacity in North America, but distribution channels and cooperative use of the records have not achieved their full potential. It also describes the market for cataloging records as “conflicted,” meaning that it faces demands to be commercially solvent as well as freely accessible and open.

See Also: New Report & Study Available

The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC to research and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability. [Our emphasis] In addition, a new report from an internal working group indicates how recommendations from On the Record may be implemented at the Library.

Source: LC

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From Washington: House Re-Introduces SKILLs Act Emphasizing Role of School Librarians

Friday, October 30th, 2009

From the ALA’s District Dispatch Blog:

The Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries Act, or the SKILLs Act, was re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week with support from both sides of the aisle. This legislation is intended to ensure that all students will have the support and resources they need for a quality education by establishing a goal that all public school libraries employ no less than one highly qualified school library media specialist.

H.R. 3928 was introduced by Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7) and Vernon Ehlers (R-MI-3) and was referred to the House Education and Labor Committee.

The post continues with info about SKILLs Act legislation during the 110th Congress in 2007.

Source: ALA District Dispatch

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Google Search Helps Uncover a Rare Photograph at the National Library at the National Library of Australia

Friday, October 30th, 2009

From a Brief Article in eNews (National Library of Australia)

A small, brown photograph recently uncovered at the Library has been confirmed as the world’s only known vintage print of the arrival of Roald Amundsen’s 1911 expedition at the South Pole.

The vintage print was brought to light when a Google search led the Curator of the Pictures Collection at the National Library of Norway, Harald Ostgaard Lund, to the National Library of Australia’s collection.

An iconic image in Norway, it is expected to go on loan to Norway in 2011 for a special exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of Amundsen’s arrival at the South Pole.

You can view the photograph here.

Source: NLA

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Review Almost 5000 Tweets from Interent Librarian 2009

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The archiving of social media may become a big issue. How will it be archived? Who, if anyone. will the info be of value to? Will different services require differnt protocols to archive and retrieve? Privacy concerns? These are just a couple of the many issues that need to be discussed. Would a business researcher find a searchable archive of tweets useful if they were compiling a report about what was said about a their company or a competitor over an extended period of time? What about the very long term? If social media lives up to what’s predicted what resources will historians use to review this period of time? Again, things to think about. We wonder if the Internet Archive or its Archive-It service will begin offering social media archiving?

When it comes to Twitter just finding and accessing a tweet from a few weeks ago can be a challenge. We did a search using Twitter’s own search engine and limited our query to results from the month of September. We were unable to find a single result for the words Chicago and video.

As far as Internet Librarian 2009 goes, Gary was in attendance and on Monday wanted to test out a free service named Twapper Keeper. It’s a free service that creates a permanent* archive of public tweets based on a hashtag, in this case, #il2009.

According to the FAQ, the site is updated every five minutes and if you need to make a change you can contact the provider of Twapper Keeper. We’ve asked the provider of Twapper Keeper a few questions, one of them is if we’re seeing every #il2009 tweet or just selected tweets. If/when we get a response, we will post it here.

You can review tweets in various sized groups from 100 at a time to “all of them” on one page.

If you’re looking at all of them on a single page, you can search by using control-find.

Another feature of Twapper Keeper is the ability to export the material. An API is also available.

So, here’s the page containing nearly 5000 Twitter tweets from #il2009.

Prefer to view smaller groups of tweets at one time? It’s easy, make your selection of how many you want to review at one time near the top of the page.

If you didn’t attend the conference, it’s a great way to get a feel for what took place. If you were there, the archive may be useful to learn about sessions you were unable to attend. It’s also a “modern way” of sharing “what went down” with a variety of groups.

* Finally, it’s true, the archive is only as permanent as the service is. That’s the case with so many Web 2.0 tools and services, available one day, not available a week later. If you really want to make the info permanent either download the tweets or take a scrolling screen cap and save them locally, or use a locally based archiving tool in the first place. This RWW article by Sarah Perez provides several resources to archive Twitter content both web-based and locally.

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Kudos to Michael and David: Library 101 is Now Live

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Congrats to Community Organizer, Librarian and Web Junction guy, Michael Porter (aka Libraryman) and Librarian/Author David Lee King, on the launch of the Library 101 Project. The event took place at Internet Librarian this afternoon in Monterey, CA.

At the moment (the site will grow), you’ll find a music video featuring the Library 101 song, the Library 101 (now you’ll see where the 101 comes in), a link rich essay with the 101 Resources & Things to Know (RTK) as a working librarian.

From the Web Site:

We both believe that if library staff read this list and used some of the tips and resources it contains that libraries and library staff will be closer to making it through and succeeding during the social and technological change we are seeing today … and will see more of in the coming decades.

You’ll also find essays about being a librarian during this time by many well-known info pros including:

+ Sarah Houghton-Jan
+ Helene Blowers
+ Kenley Neufeld
+ Stephen Abram
+ Roy Tennant
+ Maurice Coleman
+ Cindi Trainor
+ Rachel Vacek
+ Michael Sauers
+ Meredith Gorran Farkas
+ Loriene Roy
+ Susan Hildreth
+ Tony Tallent
+ Lauren Pressley
+ Beth Tribe
+ Brenda Hough & Cindi Hickey
+ and of course the site creators, Michael Porter and David Lee King

Library 101 is a great idea. This educational effort that should be required reading for all librarians. Yes, there is a lot to read and numerous resources to explore and learn about but keeping current is essential these days. In fact, helping people keep current and learn about new resources is also why Gary and Shirl spend time updating this very site just about seven days a week.

We hope to see a constant stream of new content on the site. That will get people to return on a regular basis and that’s important.

Finally, look for Library 101 to become an essential resource in library and info science programs.

See Also: The Library 101 Facebook Page

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Librarians Commemorate Now-Obsolete Catalog System

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

A little history and a little fun. Great idea and U. of South Carolina.

Access the “It’s All in the Cards” Web Site

From the Article:

It’s all in the cards, catalog cards that is.

The librarians at Thomas Cooper are working to hold a series of events to honor the card catalog, its use in the transformation of knowledge and the people who created and used it.

“We want to commemorate it and raise awareness about what it did and all the generations of library staff that made it what it is,” said Jeffrey Makala, the assistant special collections librarian. “Commemorate and celebrate.”

[Snip]

The latest event is a competition challenging students to get creative and see what theycan make with catalog cards.

“We are looking for different way to get many different types of people involved in the events,” said Marilee Birchfield, a reference librarian at the Thomas Cooper Library.

The competition has four categories: functional (serves a purpose), fashionable (wearable), foundational (building models) and free form. Students are allowed as many cards at they would like and there are no specified rules for the competition.

[Snip]

New cards haven’t been added to the university card catalog since April 15, 1991. While the catalog is no longer in use, it is an important piece of university history and the librarians didn’t want to just throw it away. But space is limited.

“We needed the space for more desks for students, but we didn’t want to just get rid of it,” said Birchfield.

The catalog is comprised of 3,168 drawers with about 1,260 cards per drawer. This makesfor 3,991,680 cards that have become obsolete.

The Web site dedicated to the card catalog is featuring a different card every day. With interesting tidbits of information on the cards, such as spy books, signed editions and mysterious splotches and spills, librarians are hoping to pique the students’ interest.

Access the “It’s All in the Cards” Web Site

Source: The Daily Gamecock (University of South Carolina)
Hat Tip: ALA Direct

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Libraries Highlighted in Recent Broadband Discussions, Activity

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

From a Blog Post:

As one of the founding members of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office has actively participated in communicating the role of anchor institutions in national broadband build-out to members of Congress, the National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The post goes on to discuss:

+ Senators Send Letter to NTIA

+ Libraries emphasized in Senate oversight hearing
You can watch the hearing online or go to the blog post for a summary.

Source: ALA District Dispatch

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ALA and Its One Mobile Friendly Web Site

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I wonder when sites or perhaps better said portions of sites like ALA.org or SLA.org will become mobile friendly. We will keep a close watch and would welcome news about new mobile sites from library organizations.

OK, but wait, ALA does have one (as far as we know) mobile friendly site. It comes from ALA’s Washington Office.

The well-known District Dispatch blog with the latest happenings involving politics, politicians, DC happenings and libraries/librarians is mobile friendly.

Simply enter the regular URL into your mobile browser and in just a second or two a nicely formatted mobile version of the blog will appear. The URL for the ALA’s District Dispatch is: http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/ or we can make it shorter for you to type before you bookmark it. Simply enter: http://bit.ly/352Fph.

District Dispatch is published with WordPress and the MobilePress plug-in makes the blog ready for mobile readers.

See Also: The M-Libraries Wiki has a great collection of mobile versions of library websites, online catalogs, as well as SMS services. If your library offers mobile services and it’s not on the list, you should add it. That’s the wiki way. (-:

Note: We can here the RSS geeks already and you’re absolutely right. District Dispatch does have an RSS feed and yes, making that RSS feed mobile friendly is as easy as adding it to your mobile aggregator (web-based or app) and reading away. So, let’s modify. The District Dispatch mobile version is for non-RSS users.

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Library Education: The Fall Issue of Prism Now Available

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Prism: The [ALA] Office for Accreditation Newsletter, Fall 2009, 17.2 is now online.

The first item in this issue is a review of recent actions taken by Committee on Accreditation. These announcements were first made at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

You’ll also find:

+ An Article by Karen L. O’Brien, Director, ALA Office for Accreditation

+ A List of New Members of the COA

+ An Info Brief About Four Schools Seeking Initial Accreditation
They are: Chicago State University, East Carolina University, University of Ottawa, and St. Catherine University

+ Perspective from the COA Chair, Vicki L. Gregory

+ Spotlight on Process and Policy: Sample Documents

+ A Info Brief about the Standards Review Blog

+ and More

Source: Office for Accreditation, ALA

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An In-Depth Look at the Proposed SLA Name Change

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Cindy Shamel Writes:

Last week, Special Libraries Association (SLA) leadership announced that members will soon vote on a new name. After 100 years as SLA, research now shows that this name does not convey the value that librarians and information professionals bring to their organizations. The proposed name, Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals, has unanimous support of the board. Members, however, give it mixed reviews.

[Snip]

Speaking to SLA’s Texas Chapter, board member Tom Rink stated that the goal of a name change is to “get a name that resonates with everybody, but especially with those who make hiring and firing decisions.” Criteria used to narrow the list included eliminating names used by or too close to other organizations, those containing unpopular or confusing terms, input from attorney due diligence, direct member input and postconference discussions, and a preference for short names with strong acronyms.

Names tested were Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals (ASKPro), The Knowledge Society, and Knowledge and Information International Association, with results pointing to Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals. The SLA board announced the proposed name to the members on Oct. 14 following a unanimous vote on Oct. 8. SLA registered the domain name ASKPro.net that same day.

Much More Including Reaction to the ASKPro Name in the Complete Article

Source: Info Today NewsBreaks

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U.K.: Public Libraries and eBooks

Monday, October 26th, 2009

From the Article:

After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books.

[Snip]

Tony Durcan, former president of The Society of Chief Librarians, said: “Book issues have seriously declined in recent years.

“This is an exciting development. These are not going to replace the paper book, they are as well as.”

He pointed out that e-books were not only cheaper, because of the lack of wear and tear and thefts, but they also offered great opportunities for older housebound readers. That is because with most devices you can enlarge the font size to as large as you like, which will help people with failing eyesight.

Newcastle, where he is chief librarian, is considering buying some e-book reading devices to lend to older, housebound residents.

According to the department of Culture, Media and Sport, annual visits to the library have declined from 302 million a decade ago to 280 million, with the decline in book loans far sharper.

Source: The Telegraph

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Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy’s Life

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy’s Life

Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the 1950s. He didn’t care much for high school. One day during his senior year, he cut class — and wandered into the school library.

As he told his daughter, Karama, recently, he stumbled onto a book written by African-American author Frank Yerby. And the discovery changed the life of a teenage boy who was, in Neal’s memory, “a rather troubled high school senior.”

The book was The Treasure of Pleasant Valley — and it had an alluring cover, especially for a teenage boy.

Neal remembers it being “risque — a drawing of a woman who appeared to be wearing something that was basically see-through. But the symbolism was really great for me at that age of 16.”

There was just one problem: If Neal took the book to the checkout counter, he was sure that the girls who worked on the counter would tell his friends.
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Finally, Neal decided that he ought to steal the book, in order to preserve his reputation. So he did.

A week or two later, Neal had finished the book — so he brought it back to the library, careful to replace it in the same spot he had found it.

“And when I put it back, there was another book by Frank Yerby,” Neal said.

“So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll read that, too.’ So I took it under my jacket,” Neal said.

“Later, I brought it back, and there was — by God, there was another book by Frank Yerby. So I took it.”

He read four of Yerby’s books that semester — checking out none of them.

But Neal’s sneaky behavior turned out not to have been so sneaky after all.

Attending his 13-year high school reunion, Neal ran into the school’s librarian, Mildred Grady. She had seen him trying to steal The Treasure of Pleasant Valley years ago.

“She told me that she saw me take that book when I first took it,” Neal said.

“She said, ‘My first thought was to go over there and tell him, boy, you don’t have to steal a book, you can check them out — they’re free.’

“Then she realized what my situation was — that I could not let anybody know I was reading.”

Source: NPR

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Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Wins Government Computing News Award

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

The NDIIPP as one of 11 projects to receive GCN [Government Computing News] Award for Agency IT Achievement.

From the Summary:

It took two centuries for the Library of Congress to acquire its 29 million books and 105 million other items. Today, it only takes 15 minutes for the world to produce an equal amount of information in digital form, creating unprecedented archiving challenges for the Library of Congress. The Library is meeting the challenge of digital preservation by developing new tools to transfer large quantities of digital content. To date, more than 3 million files have been transferred and stored using the BagIt specification. Due to the Library’s digital preservation initiatives, more than 1,000 collections of digital content have been selected, captured, preserved, and made available to the U.S. public and online visitors across the globe.

Access the Complete Article

We are warned to be careful about what we put online because data on the Internet lives forever. But keeping random copies of files on servers, routers and databases is not the same as preservation, said Martha Anderson, director of program management for the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Digital data can be ephemeral. “That is the paradox,” she said.

Much More in the Summary and Complete Article

Source: GCN

See Also: Library of Congress News Release

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2008 Academic Library Trends and Statistics from ACRL

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

The full text is a fee-based report but some highlights are available.

From the Media Release:

The 2008 data shows that the median unit cost of monographs (per volume) increased significantly since 2007 for all types of academic libraries (34.2 percent for associate degree-granting institutions, 63.3 percent for baccalaureate institutions, 61.1 percent for comprehensive institutions and 96.8 percent for doctoral/research institutions), while salary and wages expenditures as a percentage of total library expenditures remained unchanged. Salaries and wages constituted 72.1 percent of total library expenditures for associate-degree granting institutions, 56.6 percent for baccalaureate 56.5 percent for comprehensive schools, and 46.5 percent for doctoral/research institutions.

Serial expenditures as a percentage of total library materials expenditures saw very little variation from 2007, increasing less than 1 percent for associate degree-granting institutions and doctoral/research institutions (0.2 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively) and less than 2 percent for comprehensive institutions (1.4 percent) and baccalaureate schools (1.6 percent). Unchanged from 2007 is the percentage of student assistant staff as a percentage of total staff, ranging from a low of 18.1 percent at associate degree-granting institutions to a high of 29.4 percent at baccalaureate institutions.

The data comes from 1,533 academic libraries.

You can also access free summary data for the following categories:

+ Collections
+ Expenditures
+ Electronic Materials Expenditures
+ Personnel and Public Services
+ Ph.D., Faculty, and Enrollment Statistics
+ Selected Variable

Stats are then organized by type of institution and presented in PDF files:

1. Associate of Arts Granting Institutions
2. Bachelor of Arts Granting Institutions
3. Master of Arts and Professional Degree Granting Institutions
4. Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions

Source: ACRL

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How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

David Rothman, the founder of one of our favorite blogs, Teleread.org, had a guest column published in The Huffington Post on Thursday. In it Rothman calls for a National Digital Library System.

He writes:

Today millions of children are still growing up in bookless homes. But suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.

He goes on to say:

Ideally the e-books would be just the start. Imagine blending the system into local schools and libraries, while letting states and localities tailor the national collection to their particular needs. Teach the teachers how to work the library system into their lessons. Getting e-books and other items online isn’t enough by itself.

The concluding sentence about getting e-books online is not enough is one point we’re right with him on with or without a national e-books program. Buying content, technology, etc. is not THE solution. Hardly. People (users and potential users) first have to know that the service or resource is available and in some cases that it exists in the first place. Then users have to learn how to use the technology. How much money is wasted when technology is purchased that can do many things only gets used at a bare bones level?

Rothman writes that the key to the program is a full-service program that can help get technophobes to use the technology.

More After a Click
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Interim Report: Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Access the Interim Report (10 pages; PDF)

For this project, Ithaka S+R staff interviewed more than 80 individuals from 30 libraries, the Government Printing Office (GPO), and a number of other key organizations. The FDLP serves a variety of needs across a number of communities, and in this project Ithaka S+R has taken a systemwide perspective in an attempt to understand the needs of all stakeholders. This summary presents a high-level overview of the project’s interim findings and recommendations.

Here are a Few Key Points from the Report:

+ In order to effectively serve user needs, our interviewees emphasized that government information must be made freely available and preserved for the long-term in digital form.

+ The historical print collection must be preserved, even though it will play a significantly reduced role for access by users.

+ To make the rich historical collections useful, they must be digitized comprehensively and at a sufficiently high level of quality.

+ GPO should coordinate the preservation of born-digital government information.

+ FDLP must ensure the integrity and preservation of born-digital and digitized collections, using FDsys as a key platform and aggregator

+ Libraries, non-profits, and vendors should develop new and revamped discovery environments based on the anticipated needs of specific groups of users

+ In this transition, librarians should take on an expanded role as government information librarians rather than government documents librarians

+ For many participating libraries, the services provided by their government information librarians in helping users and other librarians work effectively with this material will be their principal contribution to permanent public access.

Access the Interim Report (10 pages; PDF)

Note: A Final Version of the Report Will Be Released Later this Fall

Source: ITHAKA S+R (via ARL & FGI)

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Medical Library Association — Grants and Scholarships

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Grants and Scholarships

MLA offers a variety of scholarships and grants to assist qualified students in graduate library science programs and to enable practicing health sciences librarians to take advantage of opportunities for continuing professional development.

Deadline for applications is December 1, except as noted.

Source: Medical Library Association

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Archive for the ‘Libraries and Librarianship’ Category

NIH Library Begins Beta Test of Metasearch Tool

Just Released by Library of Congress: Reports on Bibliographic Record Production

From Washington: House Re-Introduces SKILLs Act Emphasizing Role of School Librarians

Google Search Helps Uncover a Rare Photograph at the National Library at the National Library of Australia

Librarians Commemorate Now-Obsolete Catalog System

Libraries Highlighted in Recent Broadband Discussions, Activity

ALA and Its One Mobile Friendly Web Site

Library Education: The Fall Issue of Prism Now Available

An In-Depth Look at the Proposed SLA Name Change

U.K.: Public Libraries and eBooks

Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy’s Life

Recently Updated with 2008-2009 Data: General Collection Valuations at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Wins Government Computing News Award

2008 Academic Library Trends and Statistics from ACRL

How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

Interim Report: Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century

Medical Library Association — Grants and Scholarships

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