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  • Dec 10, 10

    By Jonathan Shaw, cover article, Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010. An excellent analysis of a great variety of changes that web 2.0, digitization, and Google (and other search engines) are bringing to 21st century academic libraries, their evolving faculty, and their "born digital" students.

    Other quotes from subsequent pages: "For libraries and librarians, the new premium on skills they have long cultivated as curators, preservers, and retrievers of collective knowledge puts them squarely on top of an information geyser in the sciences that could reshape medicine."

    "'It's not that we don't need libraries or librarians," he continues, "it's that what we need them for is slightly different. We need them to be guides in this increasingly complex world of information and we need them to convey skills that most kids actually aren't getting at early ages in their education. I think librarians need to get in front of this mob and call it a parade, to actually help shape it.'"

    harvardmagazine.com/...gutenberg-2-0 content_curation librarians news_article libraries 2.0

    • “Who has the most scientific knowledge of large-scale organization, collection, and access to information? Librarians,”
    • That’s a vision of librarians as specialists in organizing and accessing and preserving information in multiple media forms, rather than as curators of collections of books, maps, or posters.”

  • Dec 14, 10

    From home page, "ITHAKA helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways." Services include Ithaka S+R (strategy and research), JSTOR, and Portico.

    www.ithaka.org/ librarians libraries scholarly_publishing

  • Dec 14, 10

    By Kate Wittenberg in No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century, August 2008 for Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

    www.clir.org/...wittenberg.html scholarly_publishing research libraries

    • With their deep understanding of how to organize, store, and deliver information, the tools and functionality that add value to digital content, and the changing habits of users, librarians have the potential to play a leading role in moving forward with new models of scholarly communication.

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    • Rather than attempting to re-create traditional print publications in digital form, they can focus on disseminating information and services that respond to users' needs in whatever form seems most appropriate to the content. Because librarians can think like users as a result of their experience in responding to scholars and students, they will be in a strong position to chart the way for new models for shaping and delivering scholarly information.

       

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  • Dec 10, 10

    By Andrew Hanelly for engage: the blog on November 30, 2010. Engage is the blog of TMG (The Magazine Group, Inc.). Hanelly breaks content curation into 5 key steps that should seem familiar to librarians: research, collect, exhibit, educate, and create.

    engage.tmgcustommedia.com/...-curation-museum-not-warehouse blog_post content_curation

  • Mar 05, 10

    By Laura Spencer, published in Freelance Folder, Jan 10, 2010. While targeted to freelancers, this article provides an excellent overview to Diigo features, and clear instructions for how to get started. It is current and all examples are for the current version of Diigo.

    freelancefolder.com/how-to-get-started-on-diigo diigo getting_started blog_post social_bookmarking GSCC GPG KPI MCNC

  • Mar 05, 10

    By David Pierce, published on Makeuseof.com, November 8, 2008. This post outlines the advantages of Diigo over Delicious (both social bookmarking tools).

    www.makeuseof.com/...o-tastes-better-than-delicious diigo getting_started blog_post technology social_bookmarking GSCC GPG KPI MCNC

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