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PLOS Launches New Labs Division to Develop Publishing and Software Prototypes 14 May 2013 | 04:28 pm
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) last week launched PLOS Labs, a new division that will develop software prototypes and coordinate open-source development projects aimed at generating “disruptive ...
The Post-MARC Era, Part 2: Where the Problems Lie, Part 2 10 May 2013 | 12:43 am
In Part 1 of “Where the Problems Lie” I focused on some issues that I see with the set of technologies and standards that I have lumped, for simplicity’s sake, under the heading “MARC”. In this post I...
More Data Please! President Obama Signs Open Data Executive Order and Releases Open Data Policy 9 May 2013 | 07:22 pm
Update 1: Report About New Policy From Federal News Radio (Includes 10 minutes of Audio) Update 2: Reaction to New Policy (via Free Government Information) From The White House: The Executive Order de...
SLJ Reviews Information Literacy Courseware ResearchReady 8 May 2013 | 06:58 pm
What is ResearchReady? The new information literacy courseware is "just about everything we try and teach condensed into a single convenient, Web-based and tablet-friendly can," according to SLJ colum...
The Post-MARC Era, Part 2: Where the Problems Lie, Part 1 8 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
In Part 1 of this series I looked at what has become the inevitability of change in our fundamental bibliographic metadata standard MARC. And by MARC I really mean the collection of technologies, rule...
ALA Highlights Benefits of Federal Broadband Funding, Argues that E-Rate Must Be Enhanced to Sustain Progress 7 May 2013 | 10:33 pm
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s $4 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) has helped about 20 percent of U.S. libraries make improvements to publicl...
Baker & Taylor Releases axisReader for Axis360 7 May 2013 | 03:35 pm
Baker & Taylor (B&T) has announced the release of axisReader, a new ereader app developed specifically to work with the company’s Axis 360 digital media platform. The axisReader app is now available f...
Librarians Take Aim at Pew Study on Parents and Libraries 7 May 2013 | 03:15 pm
A recent national report from the Pew Research Center that stated that most parents consider libraries important for their children has attracted some criticism from the library community, which is co...
I, For One, Welcome Our New Software Overlords 6 May 2013 | 09:09 pm
As reported by CNet and elsewhere, Adobe is make a dramatic move to “cloud-only” versions of its famous Creative Suite of software applications. Creative Suite includes such programs as Photoshop, InD...
Self-Published Ebooks not a Solution for K-12 Schools 6 May 2013 | 04:38 pm
While self-published titles may be an option for public libraries when it comes to acquiring ebooks, not so for schools, according to SLJ columnist Christopher Harris, who lays out the ongoing challen...
