Feb 01
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™) is releasing a draft Discovery Service Code of Practice for review and comment by March 16, 2012. NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, benefiting not only its member organizations, but also the global community of information... Read more »
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Mar 16
NFAIS is pleased to announce that Dean Smith, Director of Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press, has been added as a speaker to the NFAIS-sponsored webinar on March 23rd to address the creation of the University Press Content Consortium. The new consortium was created based on the fin... Read more »
Jan 05
Martin Fenner, a practicing researcher at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany, has posted a pre-print of his article on the various initiatives aimed at the creation of unique author identifiers for purposes of research information retrieval and attribution.
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Nov 03
An interesting piece from The Atlantic reveals a newly-launched enhancement to the search functionality within Google Books. "Rich Results" factors in 100 variables to find the likeliest set of titles that match the individual user's requireme... Read more »
Sep 13
From the Press Release: Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters has announced her intention to retire effective December 31, 2010. Ms. Peters has served as Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994, a tenure longer than any other Register with the exception of Thorvald Solberg, the first Register. Her exemplary service to the ... Read more »
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Jul 01
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and ASIDIC (formerly the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers - www.asidic.org), today jointly announced the assimilation of ASIDIC members into the NFAIS Community as a result of the dissolution of ASIDIC on June 30, 2010. the agreement will provide ASIDIC members in good standing with all NFAIS member benefits... Read more »
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Jul 01
NFAIS member organizations ProQuest and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) have announced an agreement that will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The agreement assures the database's continuing development and accessibility to researchers around th... Read more »
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Jun 04
Librarian Phil Bradley and industry analyst Stephen Arnold are two people who have found Microsoft's recent launch of social dashboard, Spindex to be of interest and potentiall... Read more »
Mar 16
Most of the information community is agreed that the higher the quality of your metadata (including the various forms of identifiers available), the more discoverable your content will be for users. That said, most users have difficulty recalling such unique identifiers as an ISBN or OCLC record number when seeking out a particular title.
That's why it was interesting to see OCLC's <... Read more »
Mar 12
With Twitter reaching 50 million tweets per day, it represents a significant platform for both information communication and dissemination purposes. Indeed, as one analyst pointed out, the Read more »
Jan 15
Anyone following the plethora of news announcements released in time for ALA Midwinter is aware that mobile is currently one of the hottest area of activity in the library environment. All the more reason then to view this video (from Ohio television news station, NBC4) that shows Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Enterprise Ar... Read more »
Nov 04
Run a search using #chsconf09 and listen to the tweets emanating from this year's Charleston Conference, a well-established conference devoted to library acquisitions and collection development. The tidbits that I gleaned this morning wer... Read more »
Oct 20
When discussing mobile access and delivery of content within the context of scholarly communication, many providers of scholarly and scientific information do not see an immediate relevance to their products and services. As a result, they choose to delay any further consideration of this new delivery channel. They just don't see the potential for now. In hindsight, this may prove to be a mi... Read more »
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Oct 15
Joan Lippincott of CNI gave a wonderful opening keynote in early October at the LITA National Forum, discussing the opportunities and challenges represented by mobile devices for those in the information community. A brief report of her comments is available here. Equally knowledgeable, L... Read more »
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Oct 12
In his talk last week at the RSuite User Conference, Jason Monberg, VP of Product Management, Mark Logic, referenced three areas where publishers might further derive value from their content, specifically delivery, agility, and conversation.
With regard to de... Read more »
