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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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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.

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

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As public libraries, schools, universities and research have moved entirely online overnight, researchers and students are trying to access content remotely. Our publicly accessible libraries and educational and research establishments must be able to support remote access without fear of litigation, which requires government intervention.

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Navigating the complex legal landscape of the information professions.

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Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation?s Previously she was Professor of Information Management at Robert Gordon University where she focused on legal and ethical issues relating to digital libraries. 120 | eBook: 9781783303687. Noting the book?s

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

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ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Instead of a library of marks, a conventional library of books ? But even if she didn?