The increased volume and variety of data brings both opportunities and challenges. Big issues and big ideas were discussed at the Eduserv Symposium.
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Posted 11 May 2012
Should the LIS profession, in particular recruiters and job seekers, be taking Pinterest seriously?
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Posted 17 May 2012
Wikidata will facilitate knowledge sharing between Wikipedias - and the world.
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Posted 15 May 2012
Wikipedia founder to assist with government commitment to OA publishing by 2014 in the wake of 'academic spring' movement.
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Posted 12 May 2012
Personalisation, contextualisation and extracting meaning from Big Data are key trends in enterprise search.
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Posted 11 May 2012
Blended learning offers customised approaches to suit individual learning styles, objectives and schedules.
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Posted 11 May 2012
Opening up bibliographic data to new audiences can increase visibility of collections and improve discoverability.
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Posted 27 Apr 2012
At the MMIT conference, delegates heard about the range of web tools and other technologies that can help deliver high impact services.
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Posted 20 Apr 2012
LILAC attracts librarians and information professionals who teach or are interested in information and digital literacies.
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Posted 16 Apr 2012
Ongoing survey indicates clear need for effective enterprise search strategies.
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Posted 13 Apr 2012
Now that we are officially in spring, Suzanne Wheatley decides it's time to re-visit key objectives for 2012.
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Posted 13 Apr 2012
New survey measures how academic library collections support research and teaching activities.
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Posted 13 Apr 2012
Information Today publishes a range of journals, blogs, newsletters and books covering all aspects of the information space. Here we bring you some recent highlights.
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Posted 12 Apr 2012
The data-driven library, removing barriers for library users, and new roles for information professionals emerged as major themes at this year's UKSG conference in Glasgow.
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Posted 30 Mar 2012
Knowledge skills are vital if we are to get the most value out of geospatial data.
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Posted 30 Mar 2012
The annual meeting of the Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland focused on how Web 2.0 applications are being used in libraries.
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Posted 30 Mar 2012
'Lightning' talks and flashes of inspiration at OKFN Open Data meet-up in Scotland.
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Posted 27 Mar 2012
What happens if technology lets you down - could you deliver your presentation in a power cut?!
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Posted 22 Mar 2012
OCLC Research is extending its research programme in Europe.
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Posted 16 Mar 2012
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