Libraries in the Time of MOOCs
MOOCs give librarians new opportunities to help shape the conversation about changes in higher education and to guide administrators, faculty, and students through these changes. To assume this role,...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Primary Source: A Coming of Age
In a recent study of social media sites currently popular among scholars, the most frequently used sites for scholarly work were listservs, non-academic social networks, blogs (read or comment), online...
View ArticleCoherence at Scale and the Research Library of the Future
Whereas research products were once discrete entities that we thought we knew how to organize and store, they are now fluid and malleable. Whereas information used to reside within the grand buildings...
View ArticleEither/Or? Both/And? Difficult Distinctions within the Digital Humanities
How does the digital humanities differ from the non-digital humanities? How might it fit into the evolving landscape of higher education? Is the movement a revolution—or simply an evolution out of the...
View ArticleThe Universal Library Is Us: Library Work at Scale in HathiTrust
The authors discuss Hathitrust, one of the largest collaborative library initiatives in the world.read more
View ArticleIT and the Legacy of Our Cultural Heritage
Information technology continues to have a major impact on the evolution of higher education, constantly creating new opportunities and challenges for all aspects of the institution. In the "IT...
View ArticleLibrarians and Scholars: Partners in Digital Humanities
Libraries have numerous capabilities and considerable expertise available to accelerate digital humanities initiatives.The University of Michigan Library developed a model for effective partnership...
View ArticleTrends in Digital Scholarship Centers
Experiences gained from existing digital scholarship centers can help uninitiated institutions better launch their own efforts and thereby increase support for the research, teaching, and learning...
View ArticleThe University Library as Incubator for Digital Scholarship
By leveraging technology, we can open new doors to scholarly inquiry for ourselves and our students. Through new collaborations, we can create exciting shared spaces, both virtual and physical, where...
View ArticleIthaka S+R US Library Survey 2013
In fall 2013, Ithaka S+R surveyed academic library deans and directors across the US on their organizational vision and strategy, resource planning, and decision making. With a response rate of more...
View ArticleAssessment of E-Book Strategies
What do we know about the use and acceptance of e-books by students and faculty? At the December CNI Executive Roundtable, "E-book Strategies," several institutions reported on data collection efforts...
View ArticleCircuit Court Issues Decision in HathiTrust Digital Library Case
On June 10, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust that the HathiTrust Digital Library constitutes a “fair use” of copyrights works, largely...
View ArticleDigital Preservation Policy Framework: A Case Study
The Ohio State University Libraries created an organizational policy for digital preservation, shared here to address the policy development process and its importance to an organization, and to...
View ArticleFrom Passive to Active: The Impact of Libraries and Librarians on Increasing...
Libraries exist to make a difference in the lives of their users—and in the success of their institutions. Eschewing traditionally passive roles, today's librarians take a proactive approach. This...
View ArticleWhy Unizin? Digital Education at Cloud Scale
The Unizin Consortium is a university-owned, cloud-scale operator for digital education much like Internet2 has been for the network. It is bringing together library, IT, and academic communities...
View ArticleHorizon Report: 2014 Library Edition
The NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition identifies “Increasing Focus on Research Data Management for Publications” and “Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery” as fast trends driving...
View ArticleLibraries as Enablers of Pedagogical and Curricular Change
Academic libraries are increasingly adding multimedia production facilities and other technology- and service-oriented spaces as part of overall structural renovations.Although such remodeled spaces...
View ArticleMaking It Real: 3D Printing as a Library Service
Findings from a University of Nevada, Reno, project indicate that higher education's need for 3D printing services could be both substantial and broad-based across disciplines.Users from across...
View ArticleFinding the Public Domain: 19 Institutions Making an Impact
Working together through the IMLS-grant funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), nineteen libraries collaborate daily in identifying public domain volumes held in the HathiTrust Digital...
View ArticleNetworked Information's Risky Future: The Promises and Challenges of Digital...
Publishers, librarians, and scholars have begun to understand that their substantial and growing investment in digital object creation requires a commitment to protect the content for the long term....
View ArticleEmerging Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Enable Active Learning
Providing dedicated space to engage faculty and students with emerging educational technologies while encouraging their exploration of the possibilities brings about new opportunities in teaching and...
View ArticleThe 2014 Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education
The 2014 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research use data from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) to better understand how higher education...
View ArticleVisualizing Research and Collaboration at NC State University's James B. Hunt...
Join us to learn how NCSU Libraries is employing technology to create a campus library that offers a vibrant intellectual and social forum for the campus community, showcasing the latest technological...
View ArticlePublishing as Pedagogy: Connecting Library Services and Technology
Key TakeawaysLibraries increasingly offer the technological capacity and staff expertise to support student publishing, but this activity tends to happen in isolation from other library...
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