Archive for 'Research Issues'
Research Has The Power To Enhance The User Experience
Editor’s Note: Today we bring you a guest post from Ms. Valeda F. Dent, Associate University Librarian, Research and Instructional Services at Rutgers University. In this post Ms. Dent shares a report from a recent program held at the Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on December 12, 2007. The ACRLog blog teams thanks [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 20th, 2007 under Conference Blogging, Research Issues.
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Pay Some Attention To The Research
Academic librarianship’s mainstream research journals are looking more like prizefighters in the twilights of their careers. They’ve gone through a long period of trying to stay on their feet while the world is passing them by and have taken a whole lot of hard knocks. As far as attracting readers, it seems like they’re about [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 10th, 2007 under Professional Development, Research Issues.
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Takes More Than Blogs And Wikis To Build The Socially Networked Academic Library
It’s been two years since OCLC issued its Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report, and just over a year since the release of the subset of that report focusing on college students. Now OCLC delivers its latest survey report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. Was it worth the wait? While I [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 12th, 2007 under Research Issues, Technology Issues.
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Scholarly Communication - What Do We Need to Know?
Today the ACRL releases “Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement.” But, true to what it’s calling for - a conversation - it’s not a static document. The conversation started last July and involved parties from several organizations that have been engaged in this kind of research, key players such [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 5th, 2007 under ACRL News, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Smatterings and Chatterings
In an interview Brewster Kahle tells LJ why scanning books in an open way is so important.
Paul Duguid explores what happens to a cultural heritage when a book is digitized - and what is lost at First Monday. In his brilliant article he examines copies of Tristram Shandy and concludes, among other things, “Google [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 17th, 2007 under Books, Research Issues, Worth Reading.
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