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Information Literacy Weblog: Latest issue of Reference Services Review
information-literacy.blogspot.com | 6 hours 14 minutes ago
Information Literacy Weblog We bring you news and reports about information literacy around the world Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Latest issue of Reference Services Review Reference Services Review, Volume 40 issue 1, 2012. Articles include: Demystifying the data interview: Developing a foundation

OCLC Research and ALISE name Research Grant recipients [OCLC]
www.oclc.org | 21 hours 16 minutes ago
OCLC Research and ALISE name Research Grant recipients

Blegen Library closed February 27 / News / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
www.ascsa.edu.gr | Feb 14, 2012
Η Βιβλιοθήκη Blegen θα είναι κλειστή 27 Φεβρουαρίου.

Celia's | e-Readers in an Academic Setting
blogs.uct.ac.za | Feb 13, 2012
UCT blogs | Home | Admin Celia's « How Do Researchers in the Humanities Use Information Resources? Reconfiguring Library Boundaries with Lorcan Dempsey. Video » e-Readers in an Academic Setting Posted by Celia Walter | 13 Feb, 2012 The e-Reader — an Educational or an Entertainment Tool? e-Readers

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box - The Distant Librarian
distlib.blogs.com | Feb 9, 2012
A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries...

The Life of Books: Time for Change at AALL?
thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com | Feb 9, 2012
skip to main | skip to sidebar The Life of Books This blog is dedicated to exploring the idea that "books are dead". (Yeah, right.) Tuesday, July 06, 2010 Time for Change at AALL? In reading all the late controversy about AALL's programming issues, it seems to me that the obvious cause of the

iLibrarian » Publishers Put the Squeeze on Library eBook Lending
oedb.org | Feb 8, 2012
Kim Westad at the Times Colonist reports that Publishers Put the Squeeze on Library eBook Lending. This excellent article discusses the current state of e-books and libraries in Canada and provides a great list of 13 websites for free e-books. Here’s a short sample: “In the Greater

Annoyed Librarian: Nothing Fresh
annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com | Feb 2, 2012
Annoyed Librarian Whatever it is, I'm against it Monday, June 16, 2008 Nothing Fresh My old friends Anonymous have been commenting lately that they don't love me anymore, or something like that. I haven't been paying that much attention, to be honest. But I get the comments via email, and every

REFORMA Legislative Committee: Academic Library Legislative Alerts
libraryadvocacy.blogspot.com | Feb 2, 2012
REFORMA Legislative Committee REFORMA - The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. www.reforma.org Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Academic Library Legislative Alerts Can you take the time to act on one or more of these? ACRL Legislative

EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon
infotoday.com | Feb 1, 2012
EBook Buzz, ONLINE’s newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. This inaugural column explores the transformation to ebooks by university presses.