Le label NoctamBU + distingue 84 BU, dans une cinquantaine d’universités, qui ouvrent au moins 63 heures par semaine, et au moins 245 jours par an. En voici la liste. Plus...
The New Google Play Audiobooks and the Academic Library
By Joshua Kim. Why competition for Amazon / Audible could be a good thing for higher education. Maybe. More...
What Do Academic Librarians Think About RBMedia?
By Joshua Kim. The biggest audiobook player that we’ve never heard of.
Please help us understand RBMedia. More...
Are We There Yet?
By Barbara Fister. As I was idly poking into library history, I came across something that surprised me. In a 1901 conference proceeding, Melvil Dewey predicted this would happen by 1926. More...
Gorilla Theatre
By Barbara Fister. I enjoyed reading John Warner’s recent confessional – he was very nearly fooled for a moment by the “gorilla television” prank. Many people were fooled, because we’ve become accustomed to believing six impossible tweets before breakfast. More...
A New Home for AI: the Library
By Doug Lederman. An article in Inside Higher Ed this week explores the University of Rhode Island's decision to create an artificial intelligence lab in its library (rather than the usual engineering school or computer science building), with the goal of expanding access to machine learning beyond the usual groups. More...
Libraries Find New Ways to Flourish in the Digital Age
Techno-News Blog. Modern learners seek flexible spaces and guidance on digital literacy. In higher education, 21st-century librarians are seeing a redefinition of their roles, moving from stewards of physical information to educators on digital literacy. More...
Caen. Les bibliothèques ont désormais un nom
Après une consultation de l’ensemble de la communauté universitaire, le conseil d’administration a retenu les noms suivants : Pierre Sineux, (historien de l’antiquité grecque et président de l’université de 2012 à 2016) pour la bibliothèque Droit-Lettres sur le campus 1 ; Madeleine Brès, (première femme française docteur en médecine), pour la bibliothèque Santé - PFRS ; Rosalind Franklin, (biologiste, ses clichés ont été décisifs dans la découverte de la structure de l’ADN) pour la bibliothèque Sciences-Staps sur le campus 2 ; Gaston Mialaret, (pédagogue et enseignant, dont l’action a été continue pour la reconnaissance des sciences de l’éducation dans l’enseignement supérieur), pour la bibliothèque de l’Espe ; Blanche Maupas, (institutrice et directrice d’école de la Manche, qui mena un combat de plusieurs décennies pour la réhabilitation de son mari et d’autres officiers fusillés pour l’exemple lors de la Première guerre mondiale), pour la bibliothèque de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin et Olympe de Gouges , (féministe et abolitionniste, militante de l’égalité des droits civiques et politiques) pour la bibliothèque d’Alençon. Plus...
Libraries and Librarians Aren't About to Disappear
By Lindsay McKenzie. A widely shared article declaring libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America has been debunked.
Last month a publication called 24/7 Wall St. published an article titled “America’s 25 Dying Industries.” Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the article analyzed how employment levels in various sectors changed between 2007 and 2016. More...
At Year's End
By Barbara Fister. I browsed through my blog posts to inspire a wrap-up. A lot about social media, fake news, and net neutrality. Some thoughts about libraries and their place in democracy and in higher education. A few book reviews, a few thoughts about scholarly publishing. In other words, yammering about the same things as when I first started blogging here in 2010. More...