From the monthly archives: October 2011
Subscribers to EBSCOhost may be interested in knowing that EBSCO hopes to enhance the users’ search experiences with “several new … features” including:
· Other Formats and Editions
· Real Time News
· Citation Format Updates
· New User Interface Languages
· Android App Update
· NoveList Enhancements
Read More... →What Wikipedia Deletes, and Why discusses research done by a University of Pennsylvania research team onthe reasons Wikipedia deletes material. The research team “wondered what content on theenormously popular Web site could be so troubling that Wikipedia administrators would decide to remove it forever.” As Insup Lee, one of the researchers, notes “Wikipedia is at that paramount example of open-source transparency… so when you see [...]
Read More... →More databases and collections added to WorldCat Local
WorldCat Local now offers access to more than 865 million items. OCLC has added more databases and signed agreements with leading publishers and other providers to add more content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access [...]
Read More... →The Long Wait | LJ‘s Placements & Salaries Survey 2011
Librarians of all types will be interested in the results from Library Journal Placements and Salaries Survey for 2011. This year’s survey received responses from 1,789 LIS graduates (approximately 37% of all 2010 graduates) and true to form, a number of interesting findings were reported. As [...]
Read More... →Librarians have a reputation for being quiet and well-behaved. But not Washington State University librarian Lara Cummings during her Haunted Library Tours. She howls. She shrieks. She leaps from behind walls to spook tour members. “She’s hilarious. Who’d have guessed it could be so fun to learn their way around a library?” said Brie Brenner, [...]
Read More... →Title: E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts
Editor: Sue Polanka (Wright State University, USA)
ISBN: 978-1-61350-308-9; eISBN: 978-1-61350-309-6
Price: Hardcover: US $175; Online Perpetual: US $265; Print + Online Perpetual: US $350
310 pages, © 2012
Imprint: Information Science Reference (published by IGI Global)
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