Stick to Your Ribs: The Library With No Books In It
Editor’s Note: This post is being republished to coincide with the launch of the Digital Public Library.
Editor’s Note: This post is being republished to coincide with the launch of the Digital Public Library.
A new survey reinforces so long-term trends, but shows some surprising reversals that anyone interested in scholarly communication should note.
A meeting between librarians, publishers, and society leaders reveals common concerns and the ways in which roles are overlapping and mingling.
In a follow-up to the six mistakes sales reps make, here’s a list of six mistakes library staff can make. It’s a sobering comparison.
With changes in the scholarly communications world, many old questions for the library are unsettled once again, and many news ones arise. In this first part of a two-part post, we’ll ask the questions.
A little library has big plans, and you can help.
Are you a library or a librarian? How you answer that question may have a direct bearing on your ability to adapt to the digital age, T. Scott Plutchak tells us in a recent paper based on a 2011 lecture.
A recent analysis suggests some worrisome trends for librarianship.
As budgets make librarians look for better deals, the Big Deals fall under close scrutiny.
Instead of filling in the blanks of attribution with the same old agents, maybe we need to go beyond the usual suspects.
Patron-driven acquisition — what does it mean? This FAQ deals with how PDA approaches books, journals, and libraries.
The HarperCollins e-book lending limitations provide lessons in how both sides typically deal with change.
[Phone rings.] Librarian: Hello? Sales Rep: Hello! Robert from Acme Scholarly Journals here. As you know, for the past year we’ve been working on a new pricing model for our journal package, and now that it’s ready my boss and […]
An essay in the New York Review of Books about the Google Books Settlement is based on flawed reasoning. Here’s why.
Libraries publicize their use of Netflix to save money on acquiring digital video for patrons, opening a potentially costly can of worms.