By Brian Mathews. I’ve been a long time fan of Lost in the Stacks – a weekly radio show out of Georgia Tech. I had a chance to catch up with Charlie Bennett (Undergraduate Programming & Engagement Librarian) and Ameet Doshi (Director, Service Experience & Program Design) about the show and how it has progressed since launching in 2010. More...
By Brian Mathews. I discovered The Winnower at an open access event at Virginia Tech several years ago. Josh Nicholson, a PhD candidate at the time, was on a panel session discussing the merits of OA. He recently earned his degree (cell biology) and is focused on building a publishing platform. More...
By Brian Mathews. Here is an interview with Ameet Doshi, Director, Service Experience & Program Design. He talks about moving the collection off-campus and the new types of spaces and services they are developing. It’s a very ambitious plan and I would expect nothing less from that library. More...
By Brian Mathews. Earlier I wrote about Carrie Donovan’s Keynote at the The Innovative Library Classroom Conference. There was another presentation that I found inspiring: Can You Kick It? Bringing Hip Hop Pedagogy To The Library Classroom by Craig Arthur, Instruction Librarian at Radford University. More...
By Barbara Fister. Many conversations about privacy have been happening around various digital water coolers where I hang out, sparked by the work of the NISO Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. Read more...
By Brian Mathews. I’m going to post these quotes without any commentary; I think they hold up well on their own. Some background: 70 years ago at an ALA Executive Board Meeting (October 1945) they devoted a morning to discussing the future of librarianship. The conversation was summarized and published in the A.L.A. BULLETIN from February 1946. More...
By Brian Mathews. In 1995 the Association of Research Libraries started collecting stats on references queries. The top five that year handled over 500,000 questions each. I’m sure in those early days there were some interesting approaches to collecting the data as well as different interpretations of a reference query. More...
By Scott Sherman. What went wrong at one of the world’s eminent research institutions?
La Bibliothèque nationale de France remplit, conformément à son décret statutaire, un rôle majeur et sans doute sous-estimé vis-à-vis d'autres institutions, au premier rang desquelles l'ensemble des bibliothèques territoriales, par-delà les pôles associés en voie d'évolution. Stratégiquement, cette action protéiforme gagnerait à être plus visible encore, en interne comme à l'extérieur, notamment dans le cadre de relations plus étroites avec l'Enseignement supérieur et la Bpi.
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Sélestat. Ensemble, bâtissons la Nouvelle Bibliothèque Humaniste. Refondation architecturale confiée à Rudy Riccioti. Faire un don en ligne ou par chèque. Deux remarquables collections : la bibliothèque de l’École latine et celle du savant Beatus Rhenanus, inscrite depuis 2011 au Registre mémoire du monde de l’UNESCO. Des ouvrages du 7 au 16ème siècle. Suite...
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