Archive for June, 2010
Add Cyberwar Contingencies To Your Disaster Plan
Two new reports from ACRL serve to remind the academic library community that our future is increasingly one based on digital collections and a virtual presence. Both the Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 and the 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries point to the importance of paying attention to our [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 29th, 2010 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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Caught Between the Old and the New
Over the past academic year I’ve worked on a research project with a colleague to study the ways that students do their scholarly work, similar to the project at the University of Rochester a few years ago. We finished with data collection for this year and are spending the summer analyzing our results. We’ve gotten [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 26th, 2010 under Open Access, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Planning Out Your Presentation
With June comes the ALA Conference (except for Chicago years), and when it ends that also signals a close what I would call the library “presentation season” for both academic librarians who present and those who attend. While there are programs throughout the year, I find that the months between April and June bring the [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 22nd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Not a Crisis, a Transition
Chronicle staffer Jennifer Howard reported from the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, where the incoming president, Richard Brown of Georgetown University Press, challenged the idea that scholarly publishing is in crisis. A crisis, when it isn’t resolved for decades, becomes a way of life, and his preferred description for that way [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 21st, 2010 under Books, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, information industries.
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Reflections On Blogging
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This month the series takes on a slightly different topic than the Annual Conference. [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 14th, 2010 under Just Thinking.
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