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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access. Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers This has undermined libraries?

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Front line of library advocacy is close to home

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Front line of library advocacy is close to home THE reasons for defending access to information can sound abstract: “There’s a lot of abstraction when you’re doing policy at a global scale,” says Jennie Rose Halperin, Executive Director of Library Futures. The opposition So what is Library Futures up against?

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Reflections on the Libraries? Responses to Coronavirus, Resource Discovery and the Future

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Reflections on the Libraries? In my workplace, physical library services have stopped completely, with no readers and no staff permitted to access buildings. I run the discovery service SOLO for the Bodleian Libraries, one of the parts of the modern library which is most electronic in nature. Digital Resource Discovery.

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Buyer's Guide 2024 - coming soon

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This year’s Buyers’ Guide features 142 suppliers whose products and services are dispersed among nearly 50 categories from accessibility products to youth library suppliers. In the piece he also explains how investors see the library sector, and the role that buyers in big institutions can play in helping start-ups.

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Romance Fiction

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by Maura Seale , History Librarian, University of Michigan, and Steve Ammidown , Independent Researcher (Maura): The University of Michigan Library began a web archiving pilot project in 2018. In 2019, the web archiving team issued a call for additional collections and I proposed a new collection on popular romance fiction.

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New book offers vital toolbox in visual research methods for LIS

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Facet Publishing announces the publication of Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies, edited by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb. Readers are introduced to visual research methods including a discussion of terminology, and an overview of the literature on VRM in libraries.