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Ingenious librarians
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it By Monica Westin, June 5, 2023 Monica Westin is a librarian with a background in academic libraries and scholarly publishing. She works on copyright policy at Google and lectures in the MSc Information Science programme…
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Leisure reading collections in the academic library – ACRLog
By Hailley Fargo, Posted on December 3, 2018 Here’s my honest opinion: I wasn’t a big fan of collection development during graduate school. When I was supervising the residence halls libraries at Illinois, putting new books in my virtual cart was always at the bottom of my to-do list. I didn’t have a good system…
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How University Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom | The Wire: Science
22/01/2022: This text has been translated from German. This article was first published by ZBW Mediatalk and has been republished here under a Creative Commons license. Data tracking has long been a lucrative business model for many corporations. The fact that it also takes place in science is not so well-known, however. But here too,…
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Libraries Use Cloud and Other Tech to Reimagine Traditional Services | EdTech Magazine
From cloud services to smart assistants, campus libraries are rewriting the book on innovation. “A few years ago, for example, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library moved all its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. It has never looked back, says Bob Price, the library’s associate dean of technology and digital…
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Why university libraries are tossing millions of books – CSMonitor.com
“A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favor of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.” Source: Why university libraries are tossing millions of books – CSMonitor.com See also, A Library Without Books? Universities…
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Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
While Harvard’s library digitization efforts have presented new opportunities for scholars to access and preserve sources for posterity, they have also brought their own set of challenges. Editor’s Note: Via Library Link of the Day Source: Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision
“Copying practices in the academic world were again thrown into legal disarray when a federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University (GSU) in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. The trial court had found the practices, which involved scanning portions of books into electronic course reserves…
