Archive for category Technology Issues
The Ebook of My Dreams
We all have our frustrations with ebooks. The problem isn’t just one of print vs electronic or Luddite vs early adopter. Even as I happily consume Kindle books on my iPad and the new Project Muse collection for work, I find that ebooks simply don’t do the things I want them to do – the [...]
Posted: 18 April, 2012 in Books, Innovation, Just Thinking, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues.
Comments: 5
Change–The Encyclopedia Britannica Editors Say “It’s Okay”
If you were saving some of your budget to purchase the next print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, I have some bad news for you. Yesterday the editors announced that after 244 years of publication, they are going to stop printing bound volumes and instead will focus on digital editions. This decision is not altogether [...]
Posted: 14 March, 2012 in Books, information industries, Technology Issues.
Comments: 2
Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.
With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest’s Summon and EBSCO’s Discovery Service, access to library resources is reaching a singularity of sorts: frictionless searching. Providing a unified interface [...]
Posted: 27 January, 2012 in Student Issues, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: discovery tools, Google, internet, web searching
Comments: 12
The Limits of Mobility
Some interesting articles about mobile technology caught my eye last week as I was finishing up the leftover turkey. Apple has come under fire for the reported inability of Siri, the voice recognition application on the new iPhone 4S, to find abortion clinics. As reported by CNN, quoting the American Civil Liberties Union:
“Although it isn’t [...]
Posted: 7 December, 2011 in Information Literacy, Technology Issues.
Tags: access, Android, Apple, Google, internet, mobile, smartphone
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On Technologies and Library Space
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Maura Seale, Research and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Library.
Now that the fall semester instruction rush is over, I have been able to spend some time catching up on my library blog reading as well as my own research. I recently read this post on Academic Librarian about [...]
Posted: 28 November, 2011 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: library as place, photo study, printers
Comments: 5
