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23 juin 2013

Throwing the Books at Each Other

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/library_babel_fish_blog_header.jpgBy Barbara Fister. Many residents of Urbana, Illinois are not too happy with their public library director at the moment. Tracy Nectoux of Smile Politely, an online local culture magazine, reported last Thursday that a large percentage of the library’s non-fiction collection was being removed in a hasty and ill-considered project driven by an awkward glitch in planning. Some temporary workers had been hired to insert RFID tags into the books and it seemed foolish not to remove outdated books from the collection first, particularly since the RFID tags had yet to arrive. So to make use of the workers who were already on the clock, that removal project was suddenly shifted into high gear, and soon the whole thing was smoking and the wheels fell off, but not before thousands of books were discarded. Read more...
9 juin 2013

Universities and Libraries Envision a ‘Federated System’ for Public Access to Research

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/wired-campus-nameplate.gifBy Jennifer Howard. As federal agencies scramble to meet an August 22 deadline to comply with a recent White House directive to expand public access to research, a group of university and library organizations says it has a workable, higher-education-driven solution. This week, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries are offering a plan they call the Shared Access Research Ecosystem, or Share. Share would expand on systems that universities and libraries have long been building to support the sharing and preservation of research. The groups behind Share have been circulating a document, dated June 7, that lays out the basics behind the idea. Read more...
2 juin 2013

Un rapport sur les emplois dans les bibliothèques

http://www.aquitaine-cap-metiers.fr/capmetiers-theme/images/color_schemes/normal/cap-metiers-logo.pngLa Documentation Française vient de mettre en ligne le rapport « Quels emplois dans les bibliothèques? Etat des lieux et perspectives » réalisé par l’Inspection générale des bibliothèques.
Ce rapport analyse l'évolution quantitative et qualitative des emplois de bibliothèque dans les fonctions publiques d'État et territoriale, que ces fonctions soient exercées par des corps spécifiques des bibliothèques ou par des agents titulaires ou contractuels exerçant les mêmes métiers.
Les bibliothèques de tous types connaissant une profonde mutation marquée par le numérique, ainsi que par la mutualisation croissante dans le cadre de réseaux territoriaux ou spécialisés, le rapport trace également des perspectives concernant l'évolution à moyen terme des profils d'emplois, des recrutements et de la formation.
Consulter le rapport.

The French Documentation just put online the report "What jobs in libraries? Status and prospects "directed by the General Inspectorate of libraries. More...
2 juin 2013

How Embedded Are You?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/u-librarian-nameplate.gifBy Brian Mathews. What does it mean to be embedded? We have workshops, blogs, and books, but I’m not sure that we have a common definition. Perhaps it circles around the act of taking content or services outside of our traditional framework (spaces, websites) and integrating them into the natural habitat of our users? But that feels too vague. If I provide office hours in a classroom building or if I interact with a class via the course management system— am I embedded? Technically, yes, but this is a gray area to me. There are different degrees of experiences. Read more...

2 juin 2013

Libraries into career centres, campus residences into senior homes

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/media/www/images/flag/gam-masthead.pngBy Rey Rosales. Imagine it is the year 2030 and the former student centre at Big University X is full of people dancing to a new comeback tune from an aging pop star named Psy. Twenty years ago, the place would have been full of young college students playing video games, working on an assignment, or simply chatting with friends. Read more...
30 avril 2013

A First Look at the Digital Public Library of America

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/files/2013/04/dpla-logo.jpgBy Lincoln Mullen. Last Thursday at noon the Digital Public Library of America launched its website. The opening festivities, which had been booked solid with a long wait list for weeks, were canceled, since the venue at the main branch of the Boston Public Library was adjacent to the site of the bombing in Boston earlier that week. But the DPLA, which is a website and not a location, went ahead with the launch of the public service anyway. Read more...
30 avril 2013

Hubs and Centers as a Transitional Strategy

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/u-librarian-nameplate.gifBy Brian Mathews. We’re still in the early stages of reshaping the role of our library but I wanted to share a document that outlines some of our thinking. Julie Speer, Tyler Walters, and I co-wrote a paper for the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) Conference. Read more...

30 avril 2013

Are online public universities the new land-grant institution?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/u-librarian-nameplate.gifBy Brian Mathews. I see that Florida approved an online-only public university and that California is exploring faculty-free colleges that would award exam-based degrees. Combine this with the fact that the federal government is exploring different models for financial aid based on competency rather than the quantity of credit hours. And add in that accreditation bodies are warming up to more open learning models. Read more...

20 avril 2013

Free to All

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/the-conversation-newheader.pngBy Robert Darnton. Some have detected a revolutionary message behind the choice of today as the date to launch the Digital Public Library of America—a project to make the holdings of libraries, archives, and museums freely available in digital form to all Americans. They’re right.
“On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five,” as Longfellow put it in “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” Paul Revere did not merely warn the farmers of Lexington and Concord that the redcoats were coming. His “midnight message” was a call for liberty. To free Americans’ access to knowledge may not be so dramatic, but it is equally important; for Revere and all the founding fathers knew that a republic could not flourish unless its citizens were educated and informed. Read more...
20 avril 2013

DIY vs. STARTUP: choose your flavor of change

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/u-librarian-nameplate.gifBy Brian Mathews. I attended an ACRL session titled “From the Periphery into the Mainstream: Library DIY culture(s) and the academy” and I was expecting something about makerspaces and related DIY-eque topics, but that wasn’t the case. Instead the panel asked the attendees questions about org culture. I was surprised by the attitude that the session generated. There was a lot of “damn the man” talk and being a library administrator I guess I’m part of the problem now. As I listened I kept contrasting their attitude with startup thinking. Read more...

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