Choice announces the publication of the fourth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, their second marketing-focused publication “Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic Library: Rules, R
Source: Choice Releases Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic Library White Paper
Another year has ended and now it is a great time for library professionals to look back at their activity and plan for 2019 with a fresh view. There are many things that libraries got attached to in their long history such as fines, the library card, the Dewey classification and many other things that
Source: 7 statements library professionals should rethink in 2019
Saw this tweet recently. Inspired to know how UX / User Experience can be put into practice to help us in distributing workloads and tasks. Visualizations can help us see things better compared to listing it all in text format. Have you thought of something similar at your workplace?
Mobile libraries are an advantageous addition to libraries and a library’s services. It is something that, if feasible, should be implemented. Globally, there are libraries facing challenges like activating non-users of the library as well as extending the “reach” of the library in effort to allow the resources therein to be obtainable by
Source: https://go.iii.com/2019-academic-trends.html
Key Takeaways include:
1. Researchers struggle between ease of use and authoritative information.
2. Researchers highly mistrust online resources due to prolific misinformation.
3. The full breadth and depth of library resources are not easy to see.
(Excerpt from article)
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz  Updated Jul 10, 2019, 3:58pm EDT
Following a library’s evaluation of their social media efforts, data revealed an interested fact about their Twitter platform. The students weren’t engaging as they expected, but faculty were! Armed with this information, they shifted gears and started making faculty their new target audience.
The California Digital Library exists to support the University of California community’s pursuit of scholarship and to extend the University’s public service mission. Scholars will have access to the highest quality research collections worldwide through services that support and enable new scholarship and make it as open as possible. CDL will support all digital formats throughout their life cycle with a full range of services, especially to surface UC’s unique digital assets and collections. Through partnerships and alliances, CDL will elevate services to the network level for maximum impact.
Listen in your favourite player Do libraries play a major role in facilitating digital skill development for the public? What makes the library the place to
Source: Episode 5: Digital Development In Libraries with Pamela Tulloch And Lindsey Henderson
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