After reading my thoughts about the New York Times piece about Internet search engines and librarians, Gary sent me a link to his November-December piece in Searcher magazine that also explores the intersection of search engines and librarianship. It would not surprise me to learn that the NYT journalist read this as prepwork for his […]
Today’s New York Times’ column Circuits explores the differences between using a search engine and a librarian to find information and how librarians can position themselves to convince their users that they are better than a search engine.
The first anecdote is a good reminder: sometimes it is indeed quicker to use a print source, like […]
This week’s Harvard University Gazette includes an article about Harvard’s decision to eliminate many subscriptions to Elsevier journals and put more effort into developing alternative publishing methods. The article includes quotes from several professors, including one who works with the Public Library of Science, about how many current scholarly publishing practices hurt and hinder scholarly […]