Tag Archives for Collaboration
The Library Network selects CARL as their next ILS
The Library Corporation announced that The Library Network, serving 75 libraries in Southeast Michigan, has selected CARL.X as their next integrated library system. Key to TLN’s selection of TLC are the company’s strong development partnerships, intuitive online public access catalog, … Continue reading
ProQuest Dissertations now discoverable in Google Scholar
ProQuest and Google are expanding their collaboration by indexing almost half a million full text dissertations from the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database, the leading source of emerging research from the world’s great universities. Google Scholar users can now … Continue reading
Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries around the country. Read More
INSPIRING FUTURE CHANGEMAKERS TO COLLABORATE FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
SMU’s very first Social Impact Festival opened a window into the world of opportunities for cross-sector collaboration among youth. Read More
WHAT EVERY LIBRARIAN IN SINGAPORE OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT SAVING THE WORLD
Saving the world may not be something you associate with your job responsibilities or duties (unless, of course, you’re watching this movie.) But the work you do helps people become more informed, educated and included every day. That’s right: as … Continue reading
The many flavors of “yes” Libraries, collaboration, and improv
Interdisciplinary collaboration means that academic librarians must draw upon the functional and technological expertise of staff who are not always public facing. Some of us know how to teach, others how to code. Failing to account for the interpersonal tools … Continue reading
Collaborators and Partners: Librarians and Digital Scholarship
This poster will explore a digital scholarship project on Puerto Rican citizenship, entitled Puerto Rico Citizenship Archives: A History of the Extension of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Rico. The project is intended to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Puerto … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship course offers real-world tests
The programme, accredited by the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and run in partnership with Alibaba’s cloud computing arm, Alibaba Cloud, was announced last week. Read More
A collaborative digital oral history collection: Building a digital collection of student scholarship documenting Latino Americans in southeast North Carolina
A collaborative oral history project was recently completed at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) by students enrolled in a Spanish seminar course and library faculty and staff members at the University. The course, ‘Hispanics in N.C.: Service Learning … Continue reading
Light-powered process could convert carbon dioxide into fuel
Nickel-based photocatalyst a step towards making high-value multi-carbon fuels using solar energy. In what could well be described as a win-win outcome, a team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological … Continue reading