News for Library Nerds, February 28, 2014

ACRL’s draft of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (click to read) is out. It tries to be less formulaic than the original Standards for Information Literacy, and takes into accounts some of the recent changes in higher ed.  It also expands the definition of Information Literacy:

"Information literacy combines a repertoire of abilities, practices, and dispositions focused on expanding one’s understanding of the information ecosystem, with the proficiencies of finding, using and analyzing information, scholarship, and data to answer questions, develop new ones, and create new knowledge, through ethical participation in communities of learning and scholarship."

IEEE and Springer removing 120 computer generated papers from their collections. 

Here are 11 issues facing academic libraries. Some issues have seen a lot of play, but some of the others haven’t been discussed as much. Which issues seem the most pressing to you?

Can (should) your library have a personality? Or do we just give the facts, dispassionately? 

The opposite of being an online librarian: the archivist in the National Geographic historical image collections. 

News for Library Nerds, February 21, 2014

Academic libraries looking at e-book lending between institutions. 

Top ten reasons to prefer print: an infographic. 

How do you thwart copyright infringement? One mapmaker thought they had found a way . . . 

Dept of Ed is again looking at the “state authorization” rule for distance education.

Two opinions in WIRED about the benefits of ditching Net Neutrality.  

MIT still figuring out what their internal information policies should be after the Aaron Swartz case. 

Sometimes the Internet is the Wild West, and that’s even true for scholarly publishing. Check out the series of blog posts on Public Integrity and Ethics, an organization trying to make a name in scholarly circles. (Posts One, Two, Three, & Four).

The novel as a unique combination of paragraphs: a version of Tristan & Isolde that is recombined differently for each reader.

News for Library Nerds, Februray 14, 2014

The Dept of Ed’s biennial report on Academic Libraries is out. 

In case you need some reading that makes you nod slowly in agreement: Library Babel Fish’s thoughts on the journal and the difference between how undergraduates and experts see the information landscape. That's also why students see articles as individual things, while scholars see them as contributions to a conversation (an earlier post of hers).  

Wikipedia highlights the difficulty of creation and editing in a mobile world. Small screens are for looking, not making. Well, except for those cell phone novels.

Americans LOVE their libraries!

But Americans aren’t showing much love for foreign literature. (With the exception of Murakami, when was the last time I read a translated book? Clearly, I need to up my game . . . as soon as I finish The Goldfinch.)

Is Amazon good for books? 

The list of America’s most literate cities is out. Hooray for the Twin Cities, who are both on the list! Of course, the fact that I can't take a walk without running into a Little Free Library pretty much shows we've got books coming out of our ears around here.

News for Library Nerds, February 7, 2014

The Minnesota Multitype Library Systems are running a 23 Mobile Things program for librarians in MN who want to learn more about mobile apps and devices. Register by Feb 15 to be eligible for a completion prize. 

Myths about open access. 

Adobe is updating their DRM for Epub, which may leave some ereader users in the lurch. 

First all digital public library opens in Texas. 

ALA’s Executive Director asks the president about where libraries are in his push for the ConnectED program. 

A “Netflix for books?” One company is making its way down that path. 

Meanwhile, Netflix and Google Glasses could push mobile data usage to soaring highs.  

After long wishing I could easily include a date range in my generic Google searches, I have now found one! You can also set a different location or limit to pages you’ve already visited or never visited. 

And, just for laughs, you can use Buzzfeed’s style guide to supplement APA.