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by Katina Strauch, Editor kstrauch@comcast.net
This is in answer to Rick Anderson’s recent article in LJ — “Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries”. Rick seems to be addressing the circulation of print resources and points to the the changes in user behavior. We at ATG have been asking our subscribers [...]
Read More... →by Katina Strauch, Editor, kstrauch@comcast.net
In light of a recent blog post at Open and Shut? (http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/03/demise-of-big-deal.html) we are discussing the “Demise of the Big Deal.”
An exerpt:
Claudio Aspesi — an analyst based at the sell-side research firmSanford Bernstein — predicts a difficult future for Reed Elsevier, particularly for [...]
Read More... →We’re turning up the burners on this week’s Article of the Week. “No Room for Books” chronicles the University of Denver’s “repurposing” of library space in their ongoing remodel. To make room for technology and student interaction, Penrose Library will only bring back 20% of its print collection. Is this a library?
Is this [...]
Read More... →This post is written in response to “The Future of the Textbook” by Sara Killingworth and Martin Marlow. We invite your comments and discussion!
by Austin Mann, CampusBookRentals.com, amann@campusbookrentals.com
E-textbooks are increasing in popularity, and for good reason. The advantages of an e-textbook include interactivity, user experience, search and look-up speed, just to name a [...]
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by Patrick Carr, East Carolina University
Web-scale discovery tools like EBSCO Discovery Service and Summon by Serials Solutions enable patrons to instantly search a vast range of subscription databases, catalogs, and repositories. As a result, these tools are being widely implemented by libraries.
But, with their powerful searching capabilities, web-scale discovery tools also introduce problems. [...]
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