Archive for November, 2011
“We Don’t Read That Way”
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Laura Braunstein, English Language and Literature Librarian at Dartmouth College. I was chatting recently with a professor in my liaison department who was beginning research for a new book. Did she have everything she needed? Was there anything I should look into ordering? Yes, she said, the library was [...]
Posted: 9 November, 2011 in Books, Faculty, Technology Issues.
Tags: ebooks, Faculty, reading, scholarship, tenure and promotion
Comments: 24
Publishing Fat Cats, Collection Curation, and Serving Today’s Patron
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Heidi Steiner, Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University. The greatest reflection I find myself having following this year’s LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit is only vaguely about ebooks. Instead my mind is circling around balance. I tuned in to the “Marketing Ebooks to Students” panel ready for ideas about how I [...]
Posted: 3 November, 2011 in Books, Student Issues.
Tags: collections, distance learning, ebooks, patron-driven acquisition, scholarly publishing, students
Comments: 5