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Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Amazon goes for E-Book reader for textbooks
Amazon Plans to Market Its E-Book Reader to Colleges
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3268&utm_source=at&utm
_medium=en
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3268&utm_source=at&utm
_medium=en
Libraries as portals
SCHOLARS' VIEW OF LIBRARIES AS PORTALS SHOWS MARKED
DECLINE:
The shift toward digital scholarship is changing the
relationship between libraries and faculty members at
institutions of all sizes, a new report says.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/08/4351n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en
user name: rulibrary
password: ru2007
DECLINE:
The shift toward digital scholarship is changing the
relationship between libraries and faculty members at
institutions of all sizes, a new report says.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/08/4351n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en
user name: rulibrary
password: ru2007
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Survey of behavior and attitudes of faculty members and academic librarians
(this has been put on for Jeanne Berger - Eileen)
Ithaka has recently released the datasets from our 2006 surveys of the behavior and attitudes of faculty members and academic librarians. These complementary studies, co-sponsored by JSTOR and by Ithaka's incubated entities Portico, Aluka, and NITLE, have been of interest to academic librarians and scholarly publishers alike in presentations over the past year, but now we are making the dataset available as well. The faculty study focuses on attitudes and behaviors in the transition to an increasingly electronic information environment, examining perceptions and use of information services in the research and teaching processes. The findings shed light on the relationship between faculty and the library, faculty perceptions and uses of electronic resources, the transition away from print for scholarly journals, faculty publishing preferences, e-books, digital repositories, and the preservation of scholarly journals. The librarian survey provides the perspective of senior collection development officers on many of these same issues and thereby provides the opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between faculty and librarian views. We have prepared an in-depth white paper which details our findings and provides analysis and recommendations based on these studies, which may be found on the Ithaka website at http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys. For those who are interested in investigating our data in greater depth, we have deposited the raw datasets from these studies with ICPSR, and the faculty and librarian studies are available at http://tinyurl.com/6rm3df and http://tinyurl.com/6hk6lg, respectively.
Ithaka has recently released the datasets from our 2006 surveys of the behavior and attitudes of faculty members and academic librarians. These complementary studies, co-sponsored by JSTOR and by Ithaka's incubated entities Portico, Aluka, and NITLE, have been of interest to academic librarians and scholarly publishers alike in presentations over the past year, but now we are making the dataset available as well. The faculty study focuses on attitudes and behaviors in the transition to an increasingly electronic information environment, examining perceptions and use of information services in the research and teaching processes. The findings shed light on the relationship between faculty and the library, faculty perceptions and uses of electronic resources, the transition away from print for scholarly journals, faculty publishing preferences, e-books, digital repositories, and the preservation of scholarly journals. The librarian survey provides the perspective of senior collection development officers on many of these same issues and thereby provides the opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between faculty and librarian views. We have prepared an in-depth white paper which details our findings and provides analysis and recommendations based on these studies, which may be found on the Ithaka website at http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys. For those who are interested in investigating our data in greater depth, we have deposited the raw datasets from these studies with ICPSR, and the faculty and librarian studies are available at http://tinyurl.com/6rm3df and http://tinyurl.com/6hk6lg, respectively.
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