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January 10, 2023

University of California Davis: University of California to Research Expanded Access to Digitized Books

University of California Davis: University of California to Research Expanded Access to Digitized Books. “The University of California libraries — which comprise the largest university research library in the world — are launching a landmark research project to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. The Mellon Foundation is providing $1.1 million support for Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery), a two-year project that the UC Davis Library will lead on behalf of the 10-campus UC system.”

October 24, 2021

The Digital Library of Idaho

Discovered while wandering through my Google Alerts: The Digital Library of Idaho. From the About Page: “This ‘collection of collections’ was developed over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year by a board of directors drawn from librarians from the University of Idaho, Boise State University, Idaho State University and the Idaho Commission for Libraries. The site currently features over 150 collections from 6 organizations from across the state that can be searched and browsed by subject matter, material type, date range, and location.”

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March 28, 2020

Illinois News Bureau: Survey of US academic libraries documents COVID-19 pandemic responses

Illinois News Bureau: Survey of US academic libraries documents COVID-19 pandemic responses. “The project provides a national look at how academic libraries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 800 academic libraries – of the more than 3,000 such institutions in the country – have provided information through the Academic Library Response to COVID19 survey.”

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November 18, 2019

EdSurge: Creating Libraries for Online Students Is Harder Than You Think

EdSurge: Creating Libraries for Online Students Is Harder Than You Think. “The Association of College & Research Libraries maintains in its ‘access entitlement principle,’ which functions as a sort of library bill of rights, that all students of an institution of higher education ‘are entitled to the library services and resources of that institution,’ including access to a librarian, regardless of location. But getting books to people spread across the world—and answering their research questions—is no simple task.”

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August 5, 2019

Jisc: Jisc announces three new library services

Jisc: Jisc announces three new library services. “The library hub discover service, which is open to all, is designed to make academic library collections visible through web searches, which means they’re available to a wider audience.   The service will feature more than 100 library catalogues at launch but will keep growing over time. Based on data held by the national bibliographic knowledgebase (NBK), it is the most comprehensive aggregation of UK academic, national, and specialist library metadata available and replaces the selective coverage of Jisc’s Copac and SUNCAT services, which are being retired at the same time as the new library hub services are launched.”

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May 29, 2019

The Atlantic: The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper

The Atlantic: The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper. “University libraries across the country, and around the world, are seeing steady, and in many cases precipitous, declines in the use of the books on their shelves. The University of Virginia, one of our great public universities and an institution that openly shares detailed library circulation stats from the prior 20 years, is a good case study. College students at UVA checked out 238,000 books during the school year a decade ago; last year, that number had shrunk to just 60,000.”

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May 14, 2019

Inside Higher Ed: How Cold Is That Library? There’s a Google Doc for That

Inside Higher Ed: How Cold Is That Library? There’s a Google Doc for That. “What a difference preparation makes when it comes to doing research in Arctic-level air-conditioned academic libraries (or ones that are otherwise freezing — or not air-conditioned at all). Luckily, Megan L. Cook, assistant professor of English at Colby College, published a crowdsourced document called ‘How Cold Is that Library?’”

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November 11, 2018

University of Iowa Libraries: UI Libraries collaborates to expand access to research data

University of Iowa Libraries: UI Libraries collaborates to expand access to research data. “Students, faculty, and researchers across the Midwest and beyond will gain crucial access to large research datasets through a secure, cloud-based platform called CADRE (Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment). CADRE will be developed through a large-scale partnership led by the Indiana University Libraries and the Indiana University Network Science Institute.”

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April 6, 2017

Report: AI and IoT to Change Academic and Research Libraries in Years to Come (Campus Technology)

Campus Technology: Report: AI and IoT to Change Academic and Research Libraries in Years to Come . “In the next year or two, research data management and the valuing of the user experience will drive technology adoption in research and academic libraries. The growth of research reports through online library databases is making it easier for students, faculty and researchers to access and build upon existing ideas and work. But as libraries adopt new data formats, they must also prepare for new methods of data curation involving ‘cutting-edge technology.’ Libraries are also tapping usability principles in their digital and physical spaces to improve the quality of patrons’ interactions by making them more efficient and personalized.”

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March 21, 2017

Information Research: ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing

From Information Research: ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing. “Recent developments in the field of scientific information resource provision lead us to the key research question, namely,what is the coverage of freely available information sources when writing doctoral theses, and whether the academic library can assume the leading role as a direct intermediator for information users…. The research team was tasked with identifying whether certain resources could be found in the eCatalogue of an academic library, its subscribed databases, freely available online (through Google or Google Scholar), or whether the resources from the library`s subscribed databases are identical to those which are freely available. The data gathering process included such resource categories as journal papers, printed and electronic books or book chapters, and other documents (legal reports, conference papers, newspaper articles, Websites, theses, etc.).”

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University of California Davis: University of California to Research Expanded Access to Digitized Books

The Digital Library of Idaho

Illinois News Bureau: Survey of US academic libraries documents COVID-19 pandemic responses

Jisc: Jisc announces three new library services

Inside Higher Ed: How Cold Is That Library? There’s a Google Doc for That

University of Iowa Libraries: UI Libraries collaborates to expand access to research data

Report: AI and IoT to Change Academic and Research Libraries in Years to Come (Campus Technology)

Information Research: ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing

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