The International Federation of Library Associations is meeting in South Korea in August 2006. Some of the papers being presented at the conference are already available online. So if you are not planning on going to the conference, some of these papers may be of interest:
Directories of Institutional Repositories: Research Results and Recommendations(from USA)
Enabling Library [...]

Kudos To Educause
I’ve previously taken higher education associations to task for not inviting us to the table when it seems clear we can contribute to the discussion and action. So it’s only fair that I commend those organizations that are getting it right. In reading an article about the top ten IT issues in the [...]

ACRLog recently posted about an intriguing new project at the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries to develop a new system known as the eXtensible Catalog (XC). To learn more about the project I submitted several questions to David Lindahl, Director of Digital Library Initiatives at the River Campus Libraries and co-principal investigator of the [...]

Kevin Kelly has a manifesto, “Scan This Book,” in the New York Times Magazine. He suggests readers are about to enter paradise as books are digitized. Not only will the third world have access to the world’s greatest libraries (terrific; can we have reliable electricity with that?) but by swimming in a liquid sea of [...]

Academic librarians are no strangers to the process of asking our users “how are we doing?” Conducting user surveys, either for measuring satisfaction or service quality, are traditional methods for gauging how well the library meets the needs of its users. The results, we hope, will better inform us on how to improve library services, [...]