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Reaching the Wikipedia Generation: Reference Roundtable Tackles Trends and Thorny Issues

April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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On January 21, 2012, at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, LJ met with reference publishers, database aggregators, and public and academic reference librarians to discuss recent events and issues in the library world. It had been an exciting week. In protest against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which would have effectively forced online sites to police user-generated content, online reference giant Wikipedia had “gone dark” for a day.

The blackout was fresh in everyone’s mind and inspired some soul-searching about overreliance on this resource by patrons and librarians alike. But the group covered lots of other topics, too, from debates over patron-driven acquisition (PDA) and how to get reluctant students and faculty into academic libraries, to innovative ways to measure usage and get marketing help from vendors. The following comments are highlights of the conversation.

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Library of Congress Officials Say MARC Transition, Implementation of RDA ‘On Track’

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The American Library Association’s recent Midwinter Meeting in Dallas provided a number of updates on the immensely complex and significant transition away from the MARC communication format as well as the implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging code.

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ALA Midwinter 2012 Tech Highlights: iPad Kiosks, Social Integration, Freading, and More

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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At the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 20-24 in Dallas, LJ was on the exhibit floor taking a look at library tech companies’ latest wares. Here are a few of the highlights.

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Librarians Strive To Navigate Tenuous Landscape of Digital Publishing

January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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From exploiting linked open data to rethinking how the ALA operates, librarians strive to navigate “the tenuous landscape” of digital resources. Hopes, Hit Lists, and Pilgrims

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Head of RLUK Calls Research Works Act ‘Audacious in the Extreme’

January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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David Prosser, the executive director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), says the Research Works Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in December is “frankly ridiculous” and an attack on open access.

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ALA Midwinter 2012: RUSA’s Outstanding Books of the Year

January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Collection Development and Evaluation Section (a part of the Reference and User Services Association, or RUSA) has announced its selections of the most outstanding works of 2012

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ALA Midwinter 2012: When Looking for a Job, Remember to Smile

January 23, 2012 By 4 Comments
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Job seekers in the library field need to remember that recruiters often highly value “soft skills.”

“First and foremost, I look at how they present themselves, how well they communicate, and I like when they smile a lot,” said Megan Alpaugh, a staff recruiter for the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

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ALA Midwinter 2012: From Consumer Electronics Through Post-ILS, Top Tech Trends Run the Gamut

January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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This morning’s Top Technology Trends (TTT) panel at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, attracted its usual large audience as speakers singled out topics like user expectations, analytics, systems integration, and data interoperability as areas for the library community to watch.

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UPDATED: ALA Midwinter 2012: Fair Use a Good Argument Even in an Age of Mass Digitization

January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Librarians frequently do not apply their fair use rights under the Copyright Act in a robust manner when engaged in digitization projects, and they focus, instead, on risk aversion, to the detriment of scholarship and their patrons.

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ALA Midwinter 2012: Round Table Addresses Competing Demands on Reference Staff and Resources

January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

On Saturday morning, representatives from several publishers met with public and academic librarians at ALA Midwinter to discuss trends and practices in reference work today.

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