By Barbara Fister. How can libraries respond when trolls weaponize our committment to free speech. Read more...
Study: Librarians on Information Literacy
By Carl Straumsheim. Only about one-quarter of librarians say their libraries support information literacy instruction, even though virtually all of them believe it has a positive impact on graduation rates and success in the work force, a new study by the library-service provider ProQuest found. Read more...
Laïcité et fait religieux dans les bibliothèques publiques
Lille-I s’offre la bibliothèque universitaire du futur
Crowdsourcing et bibliothèque
Par Federica Minichiello. L’intelligence collective, nouveau moteur de l’économie et du développement ? Le Good Judgement Project, une expérimentation sur quatre ans de l’agence américaine Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, permet au grand public de participer à la prévision d’événements géopolitiques, un domaine auparavant réservé aux agences de renseignement. Voir l'article...
Socializing Academia
By Barbara Fister. Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue. Read more...
Best (and Worst) Practices for Designing Learning Spaces
By Barbara Fister. A new Project Information Literacy report by the ever-curious researcher, Alison Head, has just been published, the first in a new “practitioner’s series.” Planning and Designing Academic Library Learning Spaces involved interviewing 49 librarians, architects, and consultants involved in 22 library construction projects that were completed between 2011 and 2016. Read more...
Academic Libraries Endorse Preservation Initiative
By Carl Straumsheim. A coalition of academic and research library associations on Monday signed on to an effort to preserve electronic journals promoted by the Keepers Registry, a preservation initiative supported by the International Centre for the Registration of Serial Publications, EDINA, a data center at the University of Edinburgh, and the higher education IT organization Jisc. Read more...
Library Association Joins Advocacy Coalition
By Carl Straumsheim. The American Library Association and 16 other organizations on Tuesday formed a coalition to advocate for media and technology policy making that emphasizes access, openness and privacy. Read more...
What will become of libraries?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Inside Higher Ed recaps Educause’s annual conference held last month, in which one session asked participants to visualize the college library of the future. More...