Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.
issue68 March 2012 |
archives, copyright, curation, data, database, digital repositories, e-learning, framework, further education, gis, google, graphics, higher education, interoperability, laurentian university, library management systems, licence, mobile, preservation, repositories, research, resource discovery, search technology, software, standards, tag cloud, virtual research environment, web 2.0, wireless |
Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing |
Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
issue68 March 2012 |
algorithm, archives, association of research libraries, cessda, controlled vocabularies, data, data citation, data management, data set, data without boundaries, dcc, ddi, digital repositories, e-science, framework, gis, iassist, identifier, infrastructure, laurentian university, lod, massachusetts institute of technology, metadata, microdata, ms word, national science foundation, nesstar, ontologies, open data, open source, portal, rdf, repositories, research, schema, simon fraser university, software, standards, university of alberta, visualisation, xml, yale university |
Book Review: The Expert Library |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book taking a hard look at academic libraries, how they are being redefined and what skills will be required of the staff who will move them forward.
issue67 July 2011 |
archives, cataloguing, curation, data, e-science, gis, instructional design, intellectual property, laurentian university, metadata, preservation, research, university of illinois, visualisation |
Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?
issue59 April 2009 |
american library association, archives, cd-rom, data, dissemination, dvd, e-government, geospatial data, gis, jisc information environment, laurentian university, preservation, resource discovery |
Book Review: Integrating Geographic Information Systems Into Library Services |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a much needed work on offering GIS services in libraries.
issue58 January 2009 |
bibliographic data, data, database, geospatial data, gis, google, interoperability, laurentian university, metadata, preservation, research, software, vocabularies |
Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital |
Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users.
issue54 January 2008 |
andrew w mellon foundation, archives, cataloguing, cornell university, data, data set, digital library, digitisation, dissemination, elsevier, gis, google, higher education, jstor, knowledge management, learning objects, licence, preservation, research, standards, visualisation, vocabularies, web 2.0 |
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