Information professionals have long been charged with educating people about information literacy, information management, copyright and licensing. Although librarians understand today's information landscape, non-information savvy people frequently don't. Even the word "research" has taken on different connotations. Mary Ellen Bates, internationally renowned independent information professional, consultant, speaker, and Online Searcher columnist, considers how we can better explain these concerns.
Posted 03 August 2021
Web Audio API enables the creation and manipulation of music and sounds, directly in the browser
Posted 06 July 2021
DeepDyve announced the availability of the DeepDyve Digital Library, a fully integrated platform aimed at helping research organisations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. Although the press release states that this product doesn't need information professionals or IT staff, it should be on the radar screen of librarians, particularly those in smaller, poorly-funded institutions and companies.
Posted 04 May 2021
Katie Birkwood describes the transcribathon that the Royal College of Physicians archives team took part in, organised to make ancient texts readable both to modern eyes and for digitisation purposes. However, some of the advice in the 17th century books should probably be disregarded, such as bramble leaves and white ginger to ward off the plague and a shovelful of bees to treat hair loss.
Posted 06 April 2021
Need to take a bite out of your taxonomy efforts? Taxonomy Bootcamp London, a sister conference to Internet Librarian International, is hosting a Bite-sized version on 2 March 2021.
Posted 02 February 2021
Law firms around the world can now expand their legal research by uploading their own documents to vLex Cloud and combine their knowledge with vLex's global collection of legal information to create a research resource personalised to the needs of the firm and their clients.
Posted 03 November 2020
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries have released a public, open platform for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). It will be one of the world's largest online archives of Middle Eastern and North African artifacts. The DLME aggregates, through an ongoing program, digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and more from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Posted 01 September 2020
Heather Hedden, a highly experienced taxonomist, shares her top four tips for creating a taxonomy.
Posted 01 September 2020
The Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DDHN) and the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) are working together to develop a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) with preservation tools.
Posted 04 August 2020
Google's latest annual spam report said its preventative spam efforts resulted in over 99% of search results being spam-free and that it found 25 billion pages discovered every day are spammy.
Posted 07 July 2020
Coursera announced CourseMatch, which will match Coursera MOOCs to on-campus university courses.
Posted 04 June 2020
This year over 50 submissions from around the world were received.
Posted 19 March 2020
DPC aims to support and enable institutions at all stages of maturity in the digital preservation journey.
Posted 19 March 2020
Authorities found Apple guilty of a series of anti-competitive practices.
Posted 17 March 2020
Over 50 publishers are participating in the initiative to allow unlimited numbers of users access to ebooks. The list is expected to grow.
Posted 17 March 2020
A major breakthrough for open science.
Posted 13 January 2020
Facebook will remove videos modified by AI and designed to deceive.
Posted 08 January 2020
NAISC-L (pronounced noshk) provides a four-step method for creating an Interlink. Information professionals are invited to participate in the final evaluation phase.
Posted 01 January 2020
Professor Ingemar J. Cox - win recognises his major and sustained contributions to the field of information retrieval.
Posted 30 December 2019
OpenMonographs.org wants to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing.
Posted 04 December 2019
Twitter has backtracked on its announcement regarding inactive accounts.
Posted 29 November 2019
Beta version of resource for six cultural and heritage organisations announced.
Posted 27 November 2019
Marilyn Clarke on the Liberate our Library campaign that's working to give a voice to marginalised and underrepresented students at Goldsmiths University of London.
Posted 20 November 2019
CARL releases statement on benefits to society of Open Education.
Posted 15 November 2019
Kimberly Moore is a school librarian and digital literacy educator who helps students create electronic collections of their work.
Posted 15 November 2019