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CILIP signs pan-European statement on eBooks

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CILIP signs pan-European statement on eBooks CILIP and library associations from 16 countries have come together to issue a pan-European statement highlighting the changes needed to correct the unfair and unbalanced situation libraries and their patrons face around eBooks.

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Erwin Data Intelligence: A Data Partner’s Perspective

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One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. While the essence of success in data governance is people and not technology, having the right tools at your fingertips is crucial.

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The whole sector needs to work together

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THE choice was either to teach a procurement expert about libraries or to teach a librarian about procurement. so making that framework more appropriate to the library sector. One aim is to find flexibility and grow common ground between suppliers and university libraries. It would allow libraries to say ?I Innovation.

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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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A comprehensive account of information in the modern workplace

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It includes a set of chapters examining and reviewing the major concepts within workplace information, from over-arching themes of information cultures and ecologies, to strategic concerns of information management and governance, and to detailed accounts of questions and current debates. 139.95 | eBook: 9781783302772. Katriina Bystr?m

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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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Copyright and enabling remote learning and research during the Covid-19 crisis

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CILIP has joined forces with other leading sector organisations in an urgent request to government to facilitate greater copying under copyright law during the COVID-19. As public libraries, schools, universities and research have moved entirely online overnight, researchers and students are trying to access content remotely.