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Librarians tell RIAA: Shhhhhhhh!
News In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians. The librarians' entry into the political fray over... [26 Sep 2003]
The Future Is Not Just for Librarians, It's for Staff Too: Who Will They Be, and Where Will We Find Them?
White Paper The coming crisis in the recruitment of librarians also has implications for staff recruitment. This paper will discuss how staff responsibilities have dramatically changed over the past several decades. [13 Apr 2005]
Descriptive Resource Needs from the Reference Perspective: Report on a Survey of US Reference Librarians for the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
White Paper Additional descriptive elements which reference librarians feel would facilitate achieving accurate and useful content retrieval in response to user queries and information demands; Drawing on the results of a survey to... [25 Feb 2004]
Intranets and Knowledge Management Solutions: Law Librarians Lead the Way
White Paper Law Librarians are increasingly assuming the role of Web Managers, content creators, and innovators in this challenging new environment, and assisting their law firms in the essential enterprise of mining information on... [25 Feb 2004]
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... [15 Apr 2005]
RSS for Non-Techie Librarians
White Paper Using RSS, users can have content from web sites delivered to (and constantly updated) via a news aggregator, a piece of software freely available via the web (or purchased for more options), specifically tailored to receive these types... [16 Feb 2005]
Crossing a Digital Divide: AACR2 and Unaddressed Problems of Networked Resources
White Paper For librarians and those whom we serve, the most important changes may be in how new knowledge is created, how it is packaged, how it is published or disseminated, how its use is controlled, how it can be found, used,... [25 Feb 2004]
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]
Redesign of Library Workflows: Experimental Models for Electronic Resource Description
White Paper To build a coherent library system for discovery and retrieval of networked resources, librarians and technologists are experimenting with team-based efforts and new workflows for metadata creation. In an emerging new... [25 Feb 2004]
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]
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... [14 Apr 2005]
Website Log Analysis: Approaches for the Library of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
White Paper This paper shows how web statistics are a tool to help librarians make management, marketing, and collection development decisions. This paper covers the basic issues of web log analysis in addition to exploring... [01 Sep 2004]
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]
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... [23 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... [03 Jul 2007]
