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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

Library science is an interdisciplinary field incorporating the humanities, law, and applied science that studies topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. What’s it like to work in this field?

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Terry Kendrick helps libraries achieve their marketing, communications and engagement goals

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing: A practical guide for librarians and information professionals by Terry Kendrick. Now more than ever, libraries must find ways to engage with their communities in order to demonstrate the value they create and deliver.

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Trends in the library technology market ? a UK perspective

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Trends in the library technology market ? Ken Chad looks at the underlying issues and trends that are shaping library technology. His piece focuses on public libraries and libraries in higher education institutions. In public libraries the LMS is no longer the central piece of library technology it was.

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Library buyers' role in tech start-ups

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Library buyers’ role in tech start-ups Frode Opdahl, CEO of Keenious explains the origins of an AI-driven start-up and how its success depends on library buyers keeping the sector attractive to start-ups that wish to innovate the research experience. It was later that we saw it as a tool for libraries.”

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LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions

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CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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South African print market growth lagging behind African recovery

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Chris de Beer Chris de Beer, Africa Regional Manager at Infosource These are worrying times for the South African print and digitalisation market. Furthermore, the influx of lower-priced Asian brands into the market is also fuelling growth. These devices are primarily marketed in retail settings or for use in home offices.

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Navigating a job market ?in the eye of the storm?

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Navigating a job market ?in What is going on in the information professional job market? Here he gives his view of changes in the job market for library and information roles in the corporate sector. Her experience includes leading library services in Cambridgeshire and Poole and working on the Libraries Taskforce.