Moodle is a strong player also in the learning management space.
The importance of national, publicly funded bodies in developing services and policy is much greater in a UK, and broader European, setting than it is in the more decentralized US. In that context, the more we know about the characteristics of collections and how they compare becomes of more interest.
CURL, for non-UK readers, is the consortium of research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Currently it checks prices in several book buying sites, will look in selected library sites, or will interact with Worldcat. These are of course major issues for research libraries everywhere. I had seen mention of it before but had not tried it. I had seen mention of it before but had not tried it.
By default it takes a snapshot when it creates a record, but this seems a little slow and I turned it off.
The report notes that the 'vast majority' of users will state that Google has a 'sparse selection of literature'. The authors note that 'during the interviews, many users expressed genuine surprise that they could actually ask library employees for advice'.
It utilizes a host of web services, including many from OCLC, and will take several paths depending on what it finds at various stages. There are three key strategies for finding resources: colleagues' recommendations, chaining from bibliographies and citations; and search engines and other web resources. This is not to say that it is easy to find these numbers, but it would be interesting context. I uploaded one presentation which worked very smoothly.
It is suggested that better signalling of different library roles, and of the expert advice that is available would help here. I found it strange that the report's focus is one potential answer to this set of issues, rather than the issues themselves and a range of possible answers.
I found it strange that the report's focus is one potential answer to this set of issues, rather than the issues themselves and a range of possible answers. They report some support for the idea of 'bookable' library advice at the point of need, as, for example, when writing an assignment. One, I wonder will Google Scholar and Google Book Search change this perception. More importantly, there are specific options when Zotero recognizes a page it knows how to scrape from: you see an icon in the location bar, like the RSS icon when Firefox discovers a feed.
They are working towards a wider range of 'research support services' of which the institutional repository may be a part, and towards a new sense of discovery in a very changed network world.
They are working towards a wider range of 'research support services' of which the institutional repository may be a part, and towards a new sense of discovery in a very changed network world.
Indicative use cases are discussed.
One, I wonder will Google Scholar and Google Book Search change this perception. Interestingly, the main Google search engine is not included. Indicative use cases are discussed. "Last Copies: What's at Risk? It utilizes a host of web services, including many from OCLC, and will take several paths depending on what it finds at various stages. The first was that they could appear busy or unapproachable. The authors note that 'during the interviews, many users expressed genuine surprise that they could actually ask library employees for advice'. The authors note that 'during the interviews, many users expressed genuine surprise that they could actually ask library employees for advice'. These are of course major issues for research libraries everywhere. They report some support for the idea of 'bookable' library advice at the point of need, as, for example, when writing an assignment. The report notes that there were two main groups of remarks about library staff.
Of course, the emphasis may be very different, but they indicate a shared trend.
It describes an international range of projects and intiatives. Indeed, as off-site storage and mass digitization initiatives proceed apace, consideration of the 'aggregate' collection grows in importance. In that context, the more we know about the characteristics of collections and how they compare becomes of more interest.