By Brian Mathews. If I paid you to study in the library you would likely take me up on the offer. And if I paid you and your group to study there together, then you would definitely use the library more often. That’s the gist of a recent economics study: Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives. More...
By Jesse B. Staniforth. Universities are centralizing libraries and weeding out collections as they save space with digital collections and make more room for people to work together. McGill University says it didn’t close its Life Sciences Library. Instead, it says that it simply moved its low-use physical collection to other areas of campus. According to numerous librarians and other members of library staff who opposed the change, however, the relocation of physical holdings to another library 10 minutes away (and also to the university gymnasium building) is tantamount to closure. Three weeks before the September 1 start date for the move, administrators of the Facebook group “Save the McGill Life Sciences Library from closure” (with over 1,500 supporters) published a eulogy for the library that ended, dramatically, with “Rest in Peace.” More...
By Barbara Fister. Last week I was thinking about how librarians think of knowledge as a collection of things and faculty in the disciplines think about it as a conversation among people. This morning I realized, thinking about the Georgia State University e-reserves lawsuit and the ways nations are negotiating the limits and latitudes of fair use in the classroom, that publishers, like librarians, tend to think of scholarship in terms of things. Librarians do it because we have had to take care of things and provide access to them. Publishers do it because the sale of things (or the licensing of things) is how they pay their bills and, in some cases, make their profits. Read more...
En ligne sur le site du MESR, le rapport 2012-2013 de la Commission bibliothèques numériques traite des thèmes tels que l'observation des usages liés au numérique, les expérimentations d'achat et de mise à disposition de livres numériques dans les bibliothèques publiques.
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Le rapport 2012-2013 de la Commission Bibliothèques numériques traite les thèmes suivants : l'observation des usages liés au numérique, les modèles économiques de tiers-archivage public, les expérimentations d'achat et de mise à disposition de livres numériques dans les bibliothèques publiques.
Télécharger Commission Bibliothèques numériques (rapport 2012-2013).
Ce rapport analyse les données statistiques existantes pour les bibliothèques des universités et des grandes écoles ainsi que pour les centres de documentation ou les services d'information scientifique et technique des organismes de recherche.
Le rapport "Des indicateurs documentaires pour les sites universitaires" définit un noyau de données communes permettant d'établir un bilan documentaire global à l'échelle d'un site. Sur cette base, il propose des indicateurs quantitatifs et qualitatifs permettant d'évaluer les politiques documentaires dans le cadre des contrats de site qui seront conclus avec l'Etat.
Télécharger Des indicateurs documentaires pour les sites universitaires.
By Barbara Fister. I’m working on this thing (well, avoiding working on this thing may be more accurate) about how librarians and faculty in the disciplines think differently about knowledge. One of the major differences is that librarians have a tendency to think of knowledge as made up of things and faculty in other disciplines think of people. This was brought home to me this fall in a political science methods course in which the guiding metaphor for understanding the literature of the field was “conversation.” The job of the students preparing to do research was to discover what conversations were going on, find one that was interesting, and discern places in the conversation where there were gaps. Read more...
Du 16 au 22 août 2014, la ville de Lyon accueille, avec le soutien du Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, le 80e congrès mondial de l'IFLA. Cette manifestation internationale des bibliothèques et des sciences de l'information rassemble aura pour thème cette année : Bibliothèques, Citoyenneté, Société : une confluence vers la connaissance.
Guide IFLA 2014.
Pour en savoir plus sur l'organisation du congrès, le programme, les visites, les réunions satellites : consultez l'annonce finale.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site officiel du congrès. Suite...
By Brian Mathews. A friend of mine once remarked that Jack Kerouac judged diners solely on the quality of their apple pie. Apparently you can infer a lot about an establishment based upon the size, presentation, and taste of this classic dessert. When it comes to libraries and bookstores I’ve always used a similar measuring device: Hermann Hesse. Most libraries have the classics (Steppenwolf, Siddhartha) but what really impresses me is seeing lesser-known (and in my opinion better) novels like Beneath the Wheel and Demian. And the pinnacle for me is Narcissus and Goldmund. To me this is his masterpiece. More...
By Brian Mathews. I just gave a campus interview about our GLASS project. Here is the gist of my answers in long form.I’m really excited to be involved with GLASS. It’s an interesting technology and wearable computing seems to be one of the next big things. More...
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