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Lark Birdsong's List: Libraries
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The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available.
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porn in denver public libraries
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Librarians are so careful about what is bought for the print collection, but then we watch our googlers race around the Internet among unedited and ill-founded and repetitive single-page resources. [Using del.icio.us] is our attempt to select suitable material, to post it without delay, and to provide access points and comments on content,”
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Once you get used to having books with you, you get used to reading in places where it never occurred to you," he explains. "If I'm waiting in line at the supermarket counter, why not read one of my science fiction magazines? Believe it or not, I'll sit down in my chair at home, pull out my phone and read a book."
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show decline of use of information services and shows use for social space, cafe etc
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talks about the demise of cataloging in libraries
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As digital technologies continue to transform the environment for teaching, learning, and research, faculty information needs are evolving steadily. To best serve these needs, colleges and universities need to understand how faculty's needs have been changing—and how they are likely to change in the future.
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Where digital rights went wrong
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Why is it that “flatlined” may be the best term to describe the state of discourse in librarianship? In the traditional library literature one rarely sees an article that takes issue with the research or perspectives of a particular author.
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It's the end of your data as you know it
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But there are also a lot of other things that "everybody knows," except that not everybody agrees that everybody knows them.
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