Stop Being a People-Pleaser - Harvard Business Review

If you've always felt a compulsion to meet everyone else's needs before your own, it's hard to imagine being different. People-pleasing is not only what you do, but a strong part of who you believe you are. In some jobs,...

Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

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E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

 Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too.
CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials.
When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. But as learning shifts online, everything students do in digital spaces can be monitored, including the intimate details of their reading habits.

As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy

Millions of people now share what they're reading through social-networking sites like Facebook, or smaller services including Goodreads and LibraryThing. They're accustomed to the personalized recommendations that Amazon provides by tracking customers' buying and browsing habits.  Libraries are following suit. They're beginning to share data to build tools for recommending and discovering books.

http://chronicle.com/article/As-Libraries-Go-Digital/135514/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Marketing the academic library with online social network advertising

Findings: In line with an earlier study, the results provide further support for the view that social network advertising has the potential to be a cost-effective means of marketing academic libraries. It was also found that advertising strategies that draw upon the social features of Facebook were more effective than traditional approaches.

From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape

....librarians are in a key position to take the lead in bolstering researchers’ knowledge of current trends—and concerns—in the new art and science impact measurement......