Tag Archives for Information Organization
Patron-driven subject access: how librarians can mitigate that “power to name”
Many librarians, such as Sanford Berman, criticize this language and suggest better language for subject access. But does this “better language” match how patrons search? In this article, I stress the importance of not only an equitable subject access, but … Continue reading
NASIG updates strategic plan
NASIG recently announced availability of the NASIG Strategic Plan 2017-2021. This new strategic plan reflects NASIG’s evolution from an organization primarily focused on serials management to one with a broader scope including electronic resources management and scholarly communications. Read More
Librarians, faculty collaborate on digital scholarship across campus
Prof. Richard Hornbeck (center), Head of Digitization Kathleen Arthur (left) and Preservation Librarian Sherry Byrne discuss a digitized 19th-century business census with their research team at Mansueto Library. Read More
Whose Knowledge? Representing Indigenous Realities in Library and Archival Collections
Indigenous knowledge and perspectives typically reside outside the publishing mainstream—and often outside print traditions altogether—that are at the core of archival, library, and other institutional collections. Read More
OpenAthens Cloud launches at the Frankfurt Book Fair
OpenAthens builds upon its global access tools for digital content providers through its new cloud-based single sign-on solution OpenAthens, the international identity and access management software provider for the information industry, today officially launches its cloud-based content provider solution at … Continue reading
Mapping the Territory for a Knowledge-Based System
“While today we have many powerful applications for locating vast amounts of digital information, we lack effective tools for selecting, structuring, personalizing, and making sense of the digital resources available to us” [44], a shortcoming of recent developments in ICT … Continue reading
Librarians as Stakeholders in Managing the Research Enterprise
Increasingly, librarians are called to aggreagate and accurately report information in an age of information overload. Elsevier’s Pure aims to provide a data model that gives out data and analysis for fact driven decisions in universities. Read More