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Scholarly Journals Graduate to the Web with Help from BSG
White Paper Publishers of scholarly and professional literature are facing a new version of “publish or perish” the researchers and librarians that make up their audience want to access journals online instead of in print. [03 Jul 2008]
Texas Instruments Case Study: Smart Labels for Material Tracking in Libraries
White Paper Librarians at the circulation desk and patrons using the 3M SelfCheck System read the tags with RFID readers to check items in and out. The 3M Digital Identification System, based on RFID smart labels, streamlines the flow of library materials in... [03 Jul 2008]
Avaya Case Study: Salem Press
White Paper Founded in 1949, Salem Press is the only North American publisher that has a catalogue built exclusively around reference materials and a finite number of clients: the approximately 140,000 librarians in the United States. [11 Jun 2008]
NetOp School Video Webinar
White Paper Feature-rich NetOp School v3.0 puts teachers, librarians and lab instructors center stage in networked classrooms or Internet-based virtual classrooms. This newest generation of classroom management software facilitates the seamless transition... [10 Apr 2008]
Designing a Corporate Intranet
White Paper Corporate intranets are a new and important area of involvement for corporate librarians. They offer a different and exciting way for librarians to use their information organization and handling skills. [14 Sep 2007]
Using Hard Disks for Digital Preservation
White Paper The LOCKSS system is a tool librarians can use to preserve long-term access to content published on the web. It has three main functions. It collects the content by crawling the publisher's web sites, it distributes the content by acting as a proxy... [23 Aug 2007]
Techies 'more unhappy than hairdressers'
News Techies have lower levels of job satisfaction than hairdressers, librarians and lorry drivers despite higher earnings than many other professions. Hairdressers ranked second in the overall job satisfaction league table behind corporate managers but... [06 Aug 2007]
Library Institute Creates 21st-Century Web Site for New Generation of Industry Professionals
White Paper The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for librarians and information specialists, wanted a Web site that would integrate with its back-end membership database. [03 Jul 2007]
Libraries to lend a hand to NHS
News As part of the scheme librarians will be trained to support patients who want to use the service. The government is to pilot a scheme on public library computers to give people more information about which hospitals they choose for healthcare. [14 Nov 2006]
Report slams US VoIP-tapping policy
News Librarians, community colleges, and companies including Sun had challenged the rules, saying the FCC did not have the authority to extend the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to the internet. [13 Jun 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Librarians challenged it in federal court on First Amendment grounds, and the US Supreme Court upheld the law by a 6-3 vote in June 2003. But now the online social-networking phenomenon as a whole is under attack from a proposed US federal law that... [11 May 2006]
RFID Industry Confronts Privacy Fears
White Paper This frees librarians to assist patrons with reference materials, research questions and providing instructions. In recent years Radio Frequency IDentification technology (RFID) has found its war or is being tested in a number of different industries. [10 May 2006]
Librarians furious at Intel over Moore's Law bounty
News Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine. A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a... [15 Apr 2005]
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study
White Paper With the current world economy, budget restrictions, and librarians' current challenge of planning and integrating the digital library, the study of resource allocation costs is a timely and practical endeavor. [14 Apr 2005]
A Circulation Analysis of Print Books and e-Books in an Academic Research Library
White Paper In order for collection development librarians to justify the adoption of electronic books (e-books), they need to determine if e-books satisfy the information needs of patrons. One method to determine this is to measure e-book usage. [14 Apr 2005]
