On Inside Higher Ed, Steven Kolowich reports: The [Education] Advisory Board report, a thick primer covering a range of trends in digital librarianship, predicts a shift in the way academic libraries provide book content to their patrons that mirrors a…
Archive for the ‘Electronic Resource’ Category
The Patron-Driven Licensing Model: Turning the law library into a demand center for law eBooks
02
Nov
Industry Sector Analysis of Big Data Harvesting
29
Oct
“‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle. As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for…
Fighting for Open Access in Academic Legal Publishing
28
Oct
During this year’s Open Access Week, CALI Director of Content Development Sarah Glassmeyer published the first post-launch announcement feature on the new CALI Spotlight blog. In Why We Fight, Sarah writes: I feel like OA doesn’t get as much traction…
United States Courts Opinions on FDSYS
24
Oct
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference in Crystal City, Virginia. I was very excited to hear a presentation from the GPO about the new U.S. Court Opinion Pilot…
CCC’s Tracey Armstrong on Digital Demands Pave Way for Copyright Evolution
21
Oct
I doubt Tracey Armstrong is “the voice of copyright” but as the CEO of Copyright Clearance Center she is one of the voices of copyright. In Armstrong: The Voice of Copyright, a profile piece published in Information Today, Armstrong describes…
Reminder: HeinOnline Webinar on New Enhancements and Law Journal Library Subject Searching Set for Wednesday
18
Oct
From the announcement: Wed., October 19, 2011 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT- Register Now What is covered in this webinar? During this webinar we will demonstrate some of our newest enhancements and focus further on how to make the…
HeinOnline Reorganizes US Congressional Documents Collection
14
Oct
From the HeinOnline blog post: We have reformatted this collection to have more prominent browse options at the top of the collection homepage, which allows easy navigation throughout the collection. The browse options are All Titles, Rules & Precedents, Debates…
Traffickers of Very Expensive Online Legal Search: How do we use and teach today’s legal search services when we don’t know how the search engines work?
12
Oct
One can go back to when the issue of CALR was first much debated in the late 1970s, to view what some might characterize as a “luddite” response to the advent of very expensive online legal search but many of…
The "Product Intrigue" Boogie for Lexis Advance
04
Oct
Lexis Advance for Solos has been available for some time now and the Company is starting to advertise it on legal media sites like the National Law Journal. So I clicked on an ad link and was sent here. Damnit…
