articles & presentations – Library & Information Technology Services http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis Middlebury College Thu, 26 May 2016 16:00:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Friday Links – December 5, 2014 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2014/12/05/friday-links-december-5-2014/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2014/12/05/friday-links-december-5-2014/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:30:11 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=34744 Gates Foundation announces “world’s strongest policy on Open Access“. ‘from January 2015, researchers it funds must make open their resulting papers and underlying data-sets immediately upon publication — and must make that research available for commercial re-use. “We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated,” the foundation states.’

Librarians as publishers. As an example – one of our own: Portulano (while the library may not be “a publisher” of this journal, certain library staff members provided instrumental support in making it accessible)

All About Those Books. The Mount Desert Island High School version of Meghan Trainor’s “All About The Bass.” (MDIHS has just 571 students!)

FSU Shooting Highlights the Need for Library Security.  Library Journal article – “Early in the morning of November 20 a lone gunman opened fire in Florida State University’s (FSU) Strozier Library.”  The library staff will be receiving training this month for how to handle such situations.

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Friday Links – May 2, 2014 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2014/05/02/friday-links-may-2-2014/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2014/05/02/friday-links-may-2-2014/#respond Fri, 02 May 2014 17:00:17 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=33866 At Middlebury, we’ve been using Summon as the discovery layer for our library collections for the last several years.  The recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about discovery tools is an interesting read:

As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools

Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organize information. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases—books here, articles there—many libraries are bulldozing their digital silos. They now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style.

That’s the ideal, anyway. The reality is turning out to be messier.

Read the rest of the article here

Ideal lengths of tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, etc. (Hint: facebook updates – really, really short)

Dartmouth Pops the Champagne as Basic Programming Language Turns 50 – Basic, the programming language that revolutionized computing by making it accessible to people beyond the worlds of science and engineering, turns 50 this week, and it’s getting a birthday party.

How the 5 hottest tech jobs are changing IT – The IT industry is shifting. Here are five jobs coming to the forefront and how they are transforming the IT department.

How to Delete Yourself from the Internet – You can make yourself “disappear” from the Internet. But be forewarned: Most of the following tactics are irreversible.

Flipped learning skepticism: Is flipped learning just self-teaching?

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Research Libraries, Publishers Stake Out Positions on International ILL http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/06/15/research-libraries-publishers-stake-out-positions-on-international-ill/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/06/15/research-libraries-publishers-stake-out-positions-on-international-ill/#respond Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:18:11 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=25880 A battle is brewing between research libraries and an association of academic publishers over the right to engage in international interlibrary loans and document delivery, both well-established library practices.

Read the article. >>>

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Making federally funded research results freely available http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/10/making-federally-funded-research-results-freely-available/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/10/making-federally-funded-research-results-freely-available/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:55:09 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=16571 Today (Dec 10 2009) begins the comment period for President Obama’s
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Public Forum on How Best to Make Federally Funded Research
Results Available For Free.

Comments will be in three phases:

Implementation (Dec. 10 to 20): Which Federal agencies are good
candidates to adopt Public Access policies? What variables (field of
science, proportion of research funded by public or private entities,
etc.) should affect how public access is implemented at various
agencies, including the maximum length of time between publication and
public release?

Features and Technology (Dec. 21 to Dec 31): In what format should the
data be submitted in order to make it easy to search and retrieve
information, and to make it easy for others to link to it? Are there
existing digital standards for archiving and interoperability to
maximize public benefit? How are these anticipated to change.

Management (Jan. 1 to Jan. 7): What are the best mechanisms to ensure
compliance? What would be the best metrics of success? What are the
best examples of usability in the private sector (both domestic and
international)? Should those who access papers be given the
opportunity to comment or provide feedback?

Please do comment at the OSTP site (you’ll need to register first).
http://blog.ostp.gov/wp-login.php?action=register

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CNN article: A vision of computing from Microsoft’s future thinker http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/03/cnn-article-a-vision-of-computing-from-microsofts-future-thinker/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/03/cnn-article-a-vision-of-computing-from-microsofts-future-thinker/#respond Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:10:17 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=16071 FYI – always nice to know what the “experts” are predicting for the future.

“In the next 10 years, the way people interact with computers will wildly change…”

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/01/craig.mundie.microsoft/index.html

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BFP article on area college student phones http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/11/14/bfp-article-on-area-college-student-phones/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/11/14/bfp-article-on-area-college-student-phones/#respond Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:14:26 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=13851 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20091112/NEWS0213/91111028&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

The preceding Burlington Free Press article was published on 11/12/09.  In addition to Middlebury, UVM and St. Michaels College recently removed their room phones.  But I do find  UVM’s claim that they saved a half million dollars supporting 2800 student phone lines rather amazing.

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CQ Researcher Report on Future of Books http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/05/cq-researcher-report-on-future-of-books/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/05/cq-researcher-report-on-future-of-books/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:39:34 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/list/?p=311 Posted by Brenda Ellis

CQ Researcher is one of the resources the library subscribes to.  This week’s topic seems very relevant and timely for us. Quoting from their email announcement:

“Future of Books” by Sarah Glazer, May 29, 2009 Will traditional print books disappear?

The migration of books to electronic screens has been accelerating with the introduction of mobile reading on Kindles, iPhones and Sony Readers and the growing power of Google’s Book Search engine. Even the book’s form is mutating as innovators experiment with adding video, sound and computer graphics to text. Some fear a loss of literary writing and reading, others of the world’s storehouse of knowledge if it all goes digital. A recent settlement among Google, authors and publishers would make more out-of-print books accessible online, but some worry about putting such a vast trove of literature into the hands of a private company. So far, barely 1 percent of books sold in the United States are electronic. Still, the economically strapped publishing industry is under pressure to do more marketing and publishing online as younger, screen-oriented readers replace today’s core buyers – middle-aged women.

  • Will the Google Book Search settlement restrict public access to digital books?
  • Will traditional print books disappear from the marketplace?
  • Will literary reading and writing survive online?

To read the Overview of this week’s report, click here.
To view this week’s entire report on CQ Researcher Online, click here.

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Article: How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on Facebook…Safely http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/02/20/article-how-to-friend-mom-dad-and-the-boss-on-facebooksafely/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/02/20/article-how-to-friend-mom-dad-and-the-boss-on-facebooksafely/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:15:20 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/list/?p=233 Submitted by Brenda Ellis

For anyone using Facebook (or thinking about joining), this is useful information:

submitted by Brenda Ellis
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NYT: Nine Web sites IT pros should master in 2009 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/01/09/nyt-nine-web-sites-it-pros-should-master-in-2009/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/01/09/nyt-nine-web-sites-it-pros-should-master-in-2009/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:58:14 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/list/?p=197 http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/12/31/31idg-Nine-Web-sites.html?em

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