Journals By Industry - Librarians

Barnes & Noble Partners with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) for the Second Year to Raise Awareness on Bullying NEW YORK -- Barnes &...

HEADNOTE This is the inside story of how a handful of volunteers with no budget generated 4 million hits, 400,000 unique visitors, and 365 posts. Amid the sea change that libraries and information...

HEADNOTE Our experience with WMS has been more positive than we expected - and we expected a lot. Our patrons are happier, and we are saving time and money. his is the story...

Once again an ordinary, everyday noun has been appropriated for a new concept in technology The online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines cloud as "a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor...

This issue of Computers in Libraries magazine is one of milestones, transitions, and turning points. The theme this month was supposed to be Web-Scale Initiatives, but in the end we decided to name...

Neal-Schuman published Library Technology and User Services: Planning, Integration, and Usability Engineeringi (ISBN: 9781843346388, 170 pp., $80) written by Anthony S. Chow and Tim Bucknal 1. The book focuses on library technology and...

I. INTRODUCTION: THE SUPREME COURT SETS A COLORBLIND PARADIGM . . .[I]n finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part...

Ask a Librarian is a monthly feature in which librarians have a chance to comment on the topic of the month featured in the current Computerfi in Libraries. In this issue, Qin Zhu,...

The New Orleans Public Library announced that Charles Brown is its new executive director. In this position, he will oversee the system's daily operations. Most recently, Brown served as library director at the...

HEADNOTE ONE OF THE BEST GATEWAYS TO SUCCESS IN WEB-SCALE VENTURES, OR IN THE CLOUD FOR THAT MATTER, WILL BE THE DATA CURATION AND PRESERVATION MOVEMENT Library incursions into the web-scale world as...

A Library's Biggest Asset Staff Development on a Shoestring: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians by Marcia Trotta New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2011 ISBN: 978-1-55570-730-9 117 pages; $70, softcover A library's most important...

STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) hosted two daylong seminars in London on the heels of the Online Information 2011 meeting in December. At the STM Innovations Seminar 2011, more...

Now and then, you hear that reading is dead, but this is easily debunked by spending a little time at Goodreads (www .goodreads.com). Goodreads is a bookoriented social network where a lot of...

The 2011 Charleston Conference set a record this year with about 1,450 attendees who were interested in learning about the latest trends in information technology for information professionals of all capacities. Here are...

Brent Mai, Special Libraries Association's (SLA) president-elect and librarian at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., offered his insights into librarianship in the Are You "Future Ready"? session of the European Librarians Theatre at...

I was chatting (actually hollering) with a colleague recently about the current spate of copyright cases in the courts. (Not to worry, it was friendly hollering.) As we all know, I am never...

The future will happen whether we want it to or not." With those words, Thomas Frey reminded attendees about what is yet to come during his keynote address at the Indiana Library Federation...

Although the European Union has been dealing with the seemingly perpetual financial crisis, its member states will have to dip deeper into their pockets if they plan on meeting the European Commission (EC)...

The closing day of Online Information 2011 in early December signaled the end of an era for many longtime delegates. Perhaps the prevailing blue skies and mild temperatures in London this year were...