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Research Libraries, Publishers Stake Out Positions on International ILL

June 15, 2011 by Bryan Carson

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

A battle is brewing between research libraries and an association of academic publishers over the right to engage in international interlibrary loans and document delivery, both well-established library practices.

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Tags: articles & presentations, General News, interlibrary loan, Research & Collection Services

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Making federally funded research results freely available

December 10, 2009 by Arabella Holzapfel

Today (Dec 10 2009) begins the comment period for President Obama’s
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Public Forum on How Best to Make Federally Funded Research
Results Available For Free.
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Tags: Areas and Workgroups, articles & presentations, federally-funded research, Gov Docs, Institutions, research

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CNN article: A vision of computing from Microsoft’s future thinker

December 3, 2009 by Brenda Ellis

FYI – always nice to know what the “experts” are predicting for the future.

“In the next 10 years, the way people interact with computers will wildly change…”

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/01/craig.mundie.microsoft/index.html

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BFP article on area college student phones

November 14, 2009 by Margaret Fischel

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20091112/NEWS0213/91111028&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

The preceding Burlington Free Press article was published on 11/12/09. In addition to Middlebury, UVM and St. Michaels College recently removed their room phones. But I do find UVM’s claim that they saved a half million dollars supporting 2800 student phone lines rather amazing.

Tags: articles & presentations, Enterprise Applications, students

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CQ Researcher Report on Future of Books

June 5, 2009 by Brenda Ellis

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

Posted by Brenda Ellis

CQ Researcher is one of the resources the library subscribes to. This week’s topic seems very relevant and timely for us. Quoting from their email announcement:

“Future of Books” by Sarah Glazer, May 29, 2009 Will traditional print books disappear?

The migration of books to electronic screens has been accelerating with the introduction of mobile reading on Kindles, iPhones and Sony Readers and the growing power of Google’s Book Search engine. More →

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