MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT’s libraries, said Google’s scholarly article search could appear as an option on Google in a few months if the pilot test goes well. Sixteen other universities are involved in the project, too. The option limits searching to repositories of scholarly materials (superarchives) on college and university Web [...]
I’ve gotten a few inquiries from nonlibrarians about whether they should attend the Librarianesque Session at BloggerCon. Please do! If you’re interested in any of the items on the list or anything even remotely related to librarians/archivists/information professionals and blogging, join us. A lot of what will happen in that session depends on who is [...]
LIS News is asking for suggestions for “the first annual LISNews Top Web Sites For Librarians.” “Our goal is to find the best, most useful, most helpful, funniest, and most interesting sites that can be used by librarians as we do our jobs each and every day.” The linked blog post explains how to make [...]