By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Feed Me, Academia
fast Company writes, "Need more ideas and insights for your work? The University of Saskatchewan Library offers an online directory of academic journals that offer RSS feeds." That's the entire article, though there are some amusing comments. More...
Aunque no respetaba las recomendaciones profesionales de la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotecas, marcó un hito en la historia de las bibliotecas escolares de España. Sin embargo, hoy en día, el modelo dista mucho de satisfacer las necesidades de la educación para el siglo XXI. More...By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications
Interesting report (if you like this sort of thing) on a collection of metadata experts from major American libraries discussing digital archives preservation. The report contains a useful list of the different metadata formats adopted by various institutes (Dublin Core and Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) were the most popular). More...
S'inscrivant dans le cadre de la lettre de mission 2017-2018, ce rapport d'activité présente les synthèses et conclusions de 22 rapports : quatre sont des études thématiques, dont trois à la demande du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'innovation. Les 18 autres rapports sont consacrés à des bibliothèques de l'Enseignement supérieur (trois) ou à des bibliothèques des collectivités territoriales (quinze, dont l'une concerne une bibliothèque du réseau de la Ville de Paris). Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Amnesia
Librarians and people in government will be interested in this conference summary, which looks at the digitization of government resources and library services in Australia. More...
Les bibliothèques sont peu à peu devenues des centres permettant aux adultes de développer leurs compétences numériques, et les bibliothécaires ont volontairement assumé le rôle d’assistant public afin d’aider les gens dans leurs procédures administratives en ligne. Plus...Local libraries are often thought of as places to check out books or engage in some silent reading. But libraries offer so much more than just what can be found on their shelves or done in hushed tones. More...
By Joshua Kim. Answering 5 objections.
I want to propose a simple heuristic. Count the number of academic librarians. Hire that many instructional designers. More...
By Barbara Fister. Perhaps the era of the Big Deal is ending. It hasn’t been sustainable for years, and now research libraries around the country are following the lead of the University of California and several European library consortia, walking away from deals that extract money from subscriptions and authors at an extortionate price. More...
The Nebraska Library Commission is using a $531,000 grant to purchase “mobile” maker labs and spread them into rural communities for five months at a time. More...
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