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The Future Is Not Just For Librarians, It's For Staff Too: Who Will They Be, And Where Will We Find Them?
White Papers The coming crisis in the recruitment of librarians also has implications for staff recruitment. This paper will discuss how staff responsibilities have dramatically changed over the past several decades.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intranets And Knowledge Management Solutions: Law Librarians Lead The Way
White Papers Law Librarians are increasingly assuming the role of Web Managers, content creators, and innovators in this challenging new environment, and assisting their law firms in the essential enterprise of mining information on behalf of their internal...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Descriptive Resource Needs From The Reference Perspective: Report On A Survey Of US Reference Librarians For The Bicentennial Conference On Bibliographic Control For The New Millennium
White Papers Additional descriptive elements which reference librarians feel would facilitate achieving accurate and useful content retrieval in response to user queries and information demands; Drawing on the results of a survey to be conducted this summer...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Librarians Issue File-sharing Support
News In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians. The librarians' entry into the political fray over whether file-swapping networks should be shut...
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
Librarians Mutiny Over Moore's Law Bounty
Talkback It's strange. Why Mr Gordon Moore himself didn't keep a copy of the original with him?
[April 15, 2005, 23:55]
Librarians Mutiny Over Moore's Law Bounty
News Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, California-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine.
[April 15, 2005, 9:50]
RSS For Non-Techie Librarians
White Papers Using RSS, users can have content from web sites delivered to (and constantly updated) via a news aggregator, a piece of software freely available via the web (or purchased for more options), specifically tailored to receive these types of feeds.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Techies Wage War On Copyright Cartels
News Cyberrights advocates, open-source evangelists and even librarians met at Stanford Law School on Thursday in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 -- a piece of legislation that gives music producers...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
Crossing A Digital Divide: AACR2 And Unaddressed Problems Of Networked Resources
White Papers For librarians and those whom we serve, the most important changes may be in how new knowledge is created, how it is packaged, how it is published or disseminated, how its use is controlled, how it can be found, used, and saved for later use.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
French Cry Havoc Over Google's Library Plans
Talkback This kind of massive undertaking also requires the cooperation of French and EU librarians. Are these librarians willing to help or do they just want to protest and make accusations of American imperialism?
[February 22, 2005, 18:53]
Comparing Library Resource Allocations For The Paper And The Digital Library: An Exploratory Study
White Papers With the current world economy, budget restrictions, and librarians' current challenge of planning and integrating the digital library, the study of resource allocation costs is a timely and practical endeavor.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
NHS Library Traffic Shows Healthy Growth
News The figures were released as part of Health Libraries Week, which saw NHS librarians across the UK promote the wide range of digital knowledge resources now available. Nick Rosen, NeLH partnerships manager, said: "We are all delighted with the work...
[December 29, 2004, 14:30]
Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description
White Papers To build a coherent library system for discovery and retrieval of networked resources, librarians and technologists are experimenting with team-based efforts and new workflows for metadata creation. In an emerging new service model for e-resource...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Designing A Corporate Intranet
White Papers Corporate intranets are a new and important area of involvement for corporate librarians. They offer a different and exciting way for librarians to use their information organization and handling skills.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Circulation Analysis Of Print Books And E-Books In An Academic Research Library
White Papers In order for collection development librarians to justify the adoption of electronic books (e-books), they need to determine if e-books satisfy the information needs of patrons. One method to determine this is to measure e-book usage.
[July 13, 2008, 1:20]
British Library Lends Itself To Intellectual-property Wisdom
Talkback Who says that the Library is lead by true librarians? Given the state of affairs around us, worldwide, one should see clearly that the best of people are often governed by the ignorant and foolish. And guess which ones are lobbied to whatever...
[March 20, 2006, 20:22]
Using Hard Disks For Digital Preservation
White Papers The LOCKSS system is a tool librarians can use to preserve long-term access to content published on the web. It has three main functions. It collects the content by crawling the publisher's web sites, it distributes the content by acting as a proxy...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
RFID And Libraries: Both Sides Of The Chip
White Papers Librarians have the best of intentions with respect to use of RFID in libraries, but these intentions must now be conditioned with much better knowledge and more rigorous action. Librarians should put special emphasis on protecting user privacy...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Library Institute Creates 21st-Century Web Site For New Generation Of Industry Professionals
White Papers The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for librarians and information specialists, wanted a Web site that would integrate with its back-end membership database.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
EndNote
Downloads Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote (patent pending) to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists...
[October 18, 2007, 11:44]
