Another big ILS vendor merger made the rounds on library discussion lists today. Francisco Partners, owners of ExLibris, announced that they purchased Endeavor Information Systems from Elsevier. Francisco will merge Endeavor with ExLibris to create one of the industry’s leading ILS vendors. I’m not with either one of these systems so I can’t provide much [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard that before from a student asking why your academic library has so few hours. The students always seem to have access to a data source that tells them every other library, especially the one where their friend goes to school, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Well, the [...]

Last week I attended a gathering of approximately 30 representatives of academic libraries, higher education institutions, higher education associations and technology vendors – and at least two search engines – brought together for an ACRL Summit on Technology and Change. ACRL brought this group together to have a wide-ranging discussion, roundtable style, to help in [...]

If you’re getting weary of corporate thinking and vocabulary being applied to … well let’s face it, everything, the November 2006 issue of College and Research Libraries has a book review of Michael Newman’s Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators. According to the review, written by Glenn Ellen Star Stilling,
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Microsoft is now wooing publishers for its Live Books project, using as a tagline, “your search for new readers – and new profits – is over.” Like Google Book Search‘s publisher program, they will scan print books or will accept digital copies. And like Amazon’s Search Inside, this search will allow for discovery, but not [...]