Digital User Experience Librarian (Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana)
Digital User Experience Librarian (Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana)
The
Indiana
University
Kokomo
Library
invites
applications
for
a
twelve-month,
tenure-track
position,
beginning
when
filled,
to
provide
leadership
for
the
acquisition,
evaluation,
management,
and
pro...
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Latest ALA Job Listings - September 7, 2010
Instructional Services/Technical Services Librarian (Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida)
Instructional Services/Technical Services Librarian (Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida)
Ten-month,
tenure
track,
assistant
professor.
ALA
approved
M.L.S.
or
equivalent
degree
required,
excellent
technical
skills,
background
in
technical
services
helpful,
knowledge
of
Voyager
sy...
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Latest ALA Job Listings - September 7, 2010
How libraries deal with e-books
“Oliver” at the Krafty Librarian has coverage of a discussion from a recent webinar concerning how libraries and librarians are relating to e-books. Though he mainly comes at the issue from a medical and academic librarian’s perspective, the points he mentions are largely universal to all types of libraries.
A large part of it was factors relating to the “Tower of E-Babel” problem we’ve mentioned plenty of times before. DRM with arbitrary restrictions on what can be done with particular books, differing platforms with different access requirements. How books can be found via catalogs and search engines was also...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 7, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows DRM e-book eBabel ebook librarian librarians libraries library platforms Tower of e-babel
How libraries deal with e-books
“Oliver” at the Krafty Librarian has coverage of a discussion from a recent webinar concerning how libraries and librarians are relating to e-books. Though he mainly comes at the issue from a medical and academic librarian’s perspective, the points he mentions are largely universal to all types of libraries.
A large part of it was factors relating to the “Tower of E-Babel” problem we’ve mentioned plenty of times before. DRM with arbitrary restrictions on what can be done with particular books, differing platforms with different access requirements. How books can be found via catalogs and search engines was also...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 7, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows DRM e-book eBabel ebook librarian librarians libraries library platforms Tower of e-babel
Latest ebook pricing analysis shows Amazon winning its battle with publishers over prices
While it has been increasingly clear over the past year that Amazon is dominating the market share and price wars among dedicated ebook reader devices, it is now clear that Amazon is also winning its tug of war with traditional book publishers over ebook pricing.
Amazon is succeeding dramatically in its efforts to bring an ever increasing number and percentage of all Kindle Store ebooks into its preferred price range between $2.99 and $9.99, inclusive, according to our most recent analysis of the overall pricing composition of the Kindle Store catalog and the “Top 100 Paid” spots on the Kindle Store bestseller ...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 7, 2010 Author: Stephen Windwalker, editor of The Kindle Nation Tags: Amazon Paul Biba ebook publishing Amazon Inc. Amazon Kindle Amazon.com business Business/Finance E-book Electronic publishing Linux based devices Mass media Media technology pricing Stephen Windwalker Ur USD
Latest ebook pricing analysis shows Amazon winning its battle with publishers over prices
While it has been increasingly clear over the past year that Amazon is dominating the market share and price wars among dedicated ebook reader devices, it is now clear that Amazon is also winning its tug of war with traditional book publishers over ebook pricing.
Amazon is succeeding dramatically in its efforts to bring an ever increasing number and percentage of all Kindle Store ebooks into its preferred price range between $2.99 and $9.99, inclusive, according to our most recent analysis of the overall pricing composition of the Kindle Store catalog and the “Top 100 Paid” spots on the Kindle Store bestseller ...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 7, 2010 Author: Stephen Windwalker, editor of The Kindle Nation Tags: Amazon Paul Biba ebook publishing Amazon Inc. Amazon Kindle Amazon.com business Business/Finance E-book Electronic publishing Linux based devices Mass media Media technology pricing Stephen Windwalker Ur USD
Core Research Tools--KSL Research Spotlight Sept. 2010
Find your eJournals, articles, CourseReserves, Research Guides and Citation Guides, and more, with key resources on the KSL homepage! Start the school year with KSL's Research Spotlight, highlighting how KSL organizes a lot of your favorite tools on the left side column of the homepage.
Look through some of those icons with QuickLinks for things like finding articles, the Case catalog, Course Reserves, and more...
...then look at the September Research Spotlight, to find other helpful sources like Research Databases, ASK-A-Librarian, and how to find and borrow items for fun that aren't on your syllabus!
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KSL News Blog - September 7, 2010 Tags: Events & News @KSL Research Spotlight
Jobs are being shelved at academic libraries
San Antonio Express – “In a sign of changing times at academic libraries, Trinity University is offering buyout packages to prompt seven employees to leave its Coates Library. With the digitization of books, journals, newspapers and other materials, there simply isn’t enough work shelving and cataloging to keep all 19 classified staff members busy, said Dennis Ahlburg, Trinity’s president. “The library is not just a place for books anymore, it is a place for information,” Ahlburg said. “In terms of running the university, we want to use students’ money and donors’ money responsibly...
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Library Stuff - September 6, 2010 Author: Steven Tags: Academic Libraries
Director of Archives
State: Kentucky
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES
Lexington, KY 40506-0456
www.uky.edu/Libraries
September 1, 2010
POSITION: Director of Archives, Job #SM532124
AVAILABLE: Immediately
DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The University of Kentucky seeks an archivist to administer the Archives Department within the Special Collections Division (SC) http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/SCDP.
• Reports to the Associate Dean for Special Collections (SC)
• Serves on SC management group that collaboratively administers a division comprised of Archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Center, Special Collections Library, ...
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SLIS Careers Feed - September 6, 2010
For All of the Tech, Electronics, and Gadget Geeks Out There: A Digitized Collection of Radio Shack Catalogs (1939-2005)
Not only of interest to the geek but also to business, marketing, IT, and other historians.
From the Web Site:
Radio Shack has been in business since 1921, over 90 years. And for 65 of those years has produced an outstanding electronics and technology catalog, surpassing the catalog of all rival companies.
Through the decades, this catalog [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 5, 2010
The State of Evergreen: Evergreen at Three : Table of Contents
Abstract: Purpose - The paper reports on the experience of the first three years of use of Evergreen, the open source, consortial library system, which was originally developed by the Georgia Public Library Service to manage its PINES resource sharing network. Design/methodology/approach - The authors are directly involved with the support and development of Evergreen and with the community arising around Evergreen. The methodologies include direct observation and analysis of data from the libraries involved.Findings - Evergreen has expanded beyond its consortial and public library roots as a result both of its open source...
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Library Review : Table of Contents - September 5, 2010
Ebook roundup from Resource Shelf
+ Baidu, Most Used Site in China Begins Selling e-Books (via Bloomberg News)
Baidu also provides a popular search engine. Baidu info page in English.
+ China: The E-Reader Boom (by Yu Shujyun, Beijing Review)
+ OPDS [Open Publishing Distribution System catalog] Primer on Feedbooks (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ Video Notre Dame ereader study (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ Macmillan Dictionaries Launches Apps (by Victoria Gallagher, The Bookseller)
+ Kobo Powering Samsung Galaxy Tab E-Book Reader (by David Pierce, PC Magazine)
+ Staples to Carry Kindles (by Eric Engleman, TechFlash)
+ Videos From Multiple Sources: Sony Lau...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 5, 2010 Author: Gary Price Founder and Senior Editor of Resource Shelf Tags: Gary Price Paul Biba Resource Shelf ebook ereader Baidu Borders china Espresso Galaxy Tab kindle Kobo Macmillan Notre Dame OPDS Samsung Sony
The WEST Project: The First Shoe Drops for the Big Shift
Bristlecone
Centralized mass storage for legacy print materials (paper-based books and journals) is by far the most under-observed trend in libraries today, so I was delighted to receive a memo from SCELC, the innovative consortium my library belongs to, outlining SCELC’s work with the WEST regional storage project and adding, “please also feel free to share this information with any colleagues you think might be interested.”
The memo itself is below, and states the big-picture rationale for the WEST quite succinctly. The phrase I want to emphasize is “reallocate space to meet local needs.” Th...
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Free Range Librarian - September 4, 2010 Author: K.G. Schneider Tags: Librarianship Top Tech Trends Uncategorized
Librarian 1 (Cataloging, Reference and As-Needed) (Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, California)
Librarian 1 (cataloging, Reference and As-Needed) (Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, California)
City
of
Santa
Monica,
CA.
ANNUAL
COMPENSATION:
up
to
$71,043
which
includes
a
base
salary
of
$68,412
per
year;
and
professional
incentive
pay
+
cashable
leave
...
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Latest ALA Job Listings - September 3, 2010
Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground
He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendoThis summer, 128 years after he was driven out of London in humiliation, Kingston upon Thames's most prodigal son and San Francisco's most extraordinary photographer gets his due with a big show of his photographs at Tate Britain. History has yet to settle the verdict on this brilliant photographer whose work laid the foundation for motion pictures. Even in this belated moment of triumph, Eadweard ...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 3, 2010 Author: Rebecca Solnit Tags: Eadweard Muybridge Photography Exhibitions Art and design Culture The Guardian Features
My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin
Laura Barnett finds that it takes Daisy Goodwin a while to get into her strideIt's not easy to warm to Cora Cash. The American débutante – protagonist of the first novel by the TV presenter and poetry pundit Daisy Goodwin – is rich, privileged and Mills & Boon-heroine beautiful: all alabaster skin and glossy auburn hair. The sole heiress to her father's bread-flour fortune, she has grown up in a Newport mansion modelled on the Palace of Versailles, and her coming-out ball boasts 800 guests, fountains of champagne, and the release of a cageful of gold-sprayed hummingbirds at midnight.Many admire her – and none more s...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 3, 2010 Author: Laura Barnett Tags: Fiction Books Culture The Guardian Reviews
Ebook roundup from Resource Shelf
+ Baidu, Most Used Site in China Begins Selling e-Books (via Bloomberg News)
Baidu also provides a popular search engine. Baidu info page in English.
+ China: The E-Reader Boom (by Yu Shujyun, Beijing Review)
+ OPDS [Open Publishing Distribution System catalog] Primer on Feedbooks (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ Video Notre Dame ereader study (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ Macmillan Dictionaries Launches Apps (by Victoria Gallagher, The Bookseller)
+ Kobo Powering Samsung Galaxy Tab E-Book Reader (by David Pierce, PC Magazine)
+ Staples to Carry Kindles (by Eric Engleman, TechFlash)
+ Videos From Multiple Sources: Sony Lau...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 3, 2010 Author: Gary Price Founder and Senior Editor of Resource Shelf Tags: Gary Price Paul Biba Resource Shelf ebook ereader Baidu Borders china Espresso Galaxy Tab kindle Kobo Macmillan Notre Dame OPDS Samsung Sony
ResourceBlog Article: New from OCLC: “Find a Library” Database ...
In some cases, you can go directly from this page to that libraries, online catalog, ask a librarian service, etc. Library Type Facets Include: + Ac
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pligg - all - September 3, 2010 Tags: Academic Libraries
9/3/2010-Catalog and Technical Services Coordinator, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
catalog and Technical Services Coordinator
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Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet - September 3, 2010
9/3/2010-Librarian I (Cataloging, Reference and As-Needed), City of Santa Monica - Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, California
Librarian I (cataloging, Reference and As-Needed)
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Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet - September 3, 2010
E-Book Roundup: News from Baidu; Kobo; Amazon/Kindle; Sony; Borders; and Several Others
+ Baidu, Most Used Site in China Begins Selling e-Books (via Bloomberg News)
Baidu also provides a popular search engine. Baidu info page in English.
+ China: The E-Reader Boom (by Yu Shujyun, Beijing Review)
+ OPDS [Open Publishing Distribution System catalog] Primer on Feedbooks (by Paul Biba, TeleRead)
+ Video Notre Dame ereader study (by Paul Biba, [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 2, 2010
Part time Reference Librarin, Springfield Technical Community College (STCC)
Assist students and faculty in locating, using and
evaluating information. Instruct students in the use of the
online catalog (C/W MARS), databases and the internet. Teach
classes in the use of library resources. Promote information
literacy. Design library handouts and displays. Contribute
to web pages and the library blog. Assist in reference
department projects.
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MBLC Job Listings - September 2, 2010
New Library Search at Cambridge University
Library Search is a new search engine that allows you to look for printed books and journals and electronic material held in all the libraries in the University of Cambridge. You can easily search all records from the Newton library catalogues and material from the DSpace@cambridge repository. You can also expand your search into article databases, such as JSTOR. LibrarySearch is designed to be quick and easy. Simply enter your keywords into the search box near the top of the screen. If you would prefer to specify which fields you want to search, click on 'Advanced' in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Click on a re...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - September 2, 2010
Milestones: The Bibliotheque Nationale de France Adds 200 Millionth Bibliographic Record to WorldCat
From an OCLC Announcement:
The Bibliotheque nationale de France added the 200 millionth bibliographic record to the WorldCat database on August 27, 39 years after the OCLC online union catalog and shared cataloging system was launched.
The record describes “Je reviendrai a Montreal” (“I will return to Montreal”), a sound recording by Robert Charlebois made in 1993. [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 2, 2010 Tags: Search News Source File
9/2/2010-Serials Catalog Librarian, Librarian I, (56-280) , Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Serials catalog Librarian, Librarian I, (56-280)
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Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet - September 2, 2010
Meet the library staff
Your blogger thought it might be of interest to run an occasional post featuring one of our library staff as a way of helping you to get to know us, and feel more comfortable in asking us for help. Library staff fill a myriad of roles. This wide ranging focus calls for a variety of roles and postions. Many library staff are what we here call "library assistants" and are civil service staff. They carry out any number of vital tasks, from running our circulation desk to handling the ordering of books and much more. Some library staff are "librarians," meaning that, in addition to a bachelor's degree, they have a Ma...
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Drake Memorial Library - September 2, 2010 Author: Drake Memorial Library
Not your average search box
So, by now you're completely used to seeing a search box on
pretty much every page you visit. Put in your words, hit go, get some
stuff back. No big deal. So why on earth would we bother writing an
article about our search box?
Because it's better than the other ones.
Why?
Two reasons.
Reason #1 - Librarians mess with the search results, and we understand more about finding information quickly than anyone you'll ever meet. Reason #2 - It's powered by this:
That swiss-cheesey looking thing is a Google Search Appliance. It’s a
way of taking all the power a...
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K-State Libraries: Talking in the Library - September 2, 2010 Author: donna_ekart Tags: ResearchTips Technology
Call for Speakers for "Going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green
Call for Speakers for "Going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green"Amigos' second Going Green @ Your Library online conference will be Wednesday, November 3, 2010. We are looking for librarians interested in sharing their ideas, experiences and excitement about green practices at their library.Our keynote speaker will be Monika Antonelli, co-editor of the forthcoming Greening Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2011) and Reference/Instruction Librarian at Minnesota State University Mankato. In addition to the keynote session, we hope to have two simultaneous tracks running throughout the day:Working Green...
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A Library Writer's Blog - September 2, 2010 Author: Corey
Now Through October 15, 2010: Free Access to SAGE Journals Online (560+ Titles, 1999-Current)
Last week we mentioned that SAGE had completed migrating all 560+ journals to their next generation platform for SAGE Journals Online (SJO). The new platform is supported by HighWire Press’ “2.0” technology (H2O).
In the post we pointed out that at the beginning of September, SAGE would offer free access to their entire catalog of [...]
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ResourceShelf - September 1, 2010 Tags: Search News
NISO Releases Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE) Protocol
NISO has released the Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE) Protocol (NISO RP-10-2010).
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
NISO is pleased to announce the publication of its latest Recommended Practice, CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange Protocol (NISO RP-10-2010). This Recommended Practice defines an XML schema to facilitate the exchange of financial information related to the acquisition of library resources between systems, such as an ILS and an ERMS.
CORE identifies a compact yet useful structure for query and delivery of relevant acquisitions data. "Sharing acquisitions information between systems has always ...
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DigitalKoans - September 1, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Electronic Resource Management Systems ILS Standards
