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On Seams, Seamlessness, and Methodology
- February 25, 2016
Earlier this month, I encountered a thought-provoking talk by Tim Sherratt making the very strong argument that seamlessness should not be our only goal in designing digital library systems. The talk is a year old but it is well worth reading today. I thank Donna Lanclos for tweeting about it recently. I have argued strongly that we need to reduce the barriers to the use of e-resources for the academic…
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Research Practices and the Disruption of the Research Library
Nancy Fried Foster Talk at RLUK
- March 10, 2016
Nancy Fried Foster and Cornell University Library's Korneila Tancheva will discuss "Research Practices and the Disruption of the Research Library" at the RLUK Conference on Thursday, March 10. The academic research library has always played a crucial role in building collections and services to support research. Current technological, regulatory and research behaviour disruptions present new opportunities in and challenges to the ways in which research is produced, shared, preserved, and…
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Liaison Librarianship: Assessment and Ambivalence
A Webinar with Roger Schonfeld
- February 18, 2016
Roger Schonfeld will be presenting on a webinar hosted by The Partnership, Canada's national network of provincial and territorial library associations, on February 18 at 1:00 pm. Registration is open at The Partnership's Education Institute. Liaison Librarianship: Assessment and Ambivalence The drumbeat of assessment has become the cadence of higher education. But measuring the work of liaison librarians is much more complicated than doing a gate count, especially when it comes to the…
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Artstor-ITHAKA Community Letter
- January 28, 2016
To our creators, partners and users Artstor and ITHAKA Join Forces We are writing to you as a valued member of our community to share the good news that Artstor, the nonprofit provider of the Artstor Digital Library of images and the Shared Shelf platform for cataloguing and digital asset management, will now operate under the umbrella of its fellow nonprofit ITHAKA, the organization that currently operates three other services:…
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Survey Administration Best Practices: Using Incentives Effectively
- January 27, 2016
Since 2000, Ithaka S+R has run the US Faculty Survey, which tracks the evolution of faculty members’ research and teaching practices against the backdrop of increasing digital resources and other systemic changes in higher education. Starting in 2012, Ithaka S+R has offered colleges and universities the opportunity to field the faculty survey, and a newly added student survey, at their individual institutions to gain better insight into the perceptions of…
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Religious Studies Project Launch and Training Workshop
- January 19, 2016
My colleague Roger Schonfeld and I launched the religious studies project at Pitts Theology Library at Emory University on January 7 and 8 with the first of two methods training workshops for our institutional collaborators. With funding from lead sponsor the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), as well as the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the religious studies project brings together local research…
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Roger Schonfeld at ER&L; Conference
- April 6, 2016
Roger Schonfeld is on the "Researching Researchers: Developing Evidence-Based Strategy for Improved Discovery and Access" panel at the 11th Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference in Austin, Texas. Leading libraries, publishers, and vendors regularly study the practices and needs of academics and students, in order to serve them better. In this session, experienced researchers will examine today’s search behaviors, emerging discovery forms, and access challenges, reviewing strategies for improving discovery and…
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Workshop for the Research Support Services Project on Religious Sudies
- February 11, 2016
On February 11-12, Ithaka S+R will hold a workshop at Columbia University in New York City for the participants in our Research Support Services project on Religious Studies. Through the Research Support Service series, Ithaka S+R collaborates with libraries and scholarly societies to take a deep dive into a particular discipline to uncover the unique needs of scholars in that field. At the beginning of each project, we hold workshops for the research…
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Research Support Services Workshop
For Participants in the Religious Studies Project
- January 7, 2016
On January 7-8, Ithaka S+R will hold a workshop at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for the participants in our Research Support Services project on Religious Studies. A second workshop is scheduled for February 11-12 at Columbia University in New York City. Through the Research Support Service series, Ithaka S+R collaborates with libraries and scholarly societies to take a deep dive into a particular discipline to uncover the unique needs of scholars…
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Participant Meeting at ALA Midwinter
- January 10, 2016
Please join Deanna Marcum, Roger Schonfeld, Christine Wolff, and Kimberly Lutz at Ithaka S+R’s participant meeting at ALA Midwinter on Sunday, January 10 from 1:30-3:00 pm, in the Seaport C Room at the Seaport Hotel. At the meeting, we will share several updates, including Findings from our recent and ongoing research projects. We have been pursuing an active research agenda and would like to share what we have learned to…