Thursday 12 March – Driving library value and impact with EZproxy Analytics
Being able to demonstrate measurable impact and value is becoming critically important for academic libraries
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Learning curves
As the pressure to understand student success rises, Rebecca Pool asks: are libraries coming around to learning analytics?
Jisc launches three library services
Jisc, the not-for-profit technology solutions provider for education and research, is launching three library services. Library hub discover, Library hub compare, and Library hub cataloguing are aimed at making it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access,…
NBK a ‘game-changer’ for UK librarians
A new National Bibliographic Knowledgebase has been hailed as a key piece of national data infrastructure for the UK
National Bibliographic Knowledgebase ‘key UK infrastructure’
NBK has made a great start providing one place for UK academic library data, writes Sarah Bartlett
From tradition to change
More than two decades ago, client server computing toppled mainframe computing from its lofty pedestal. But today, service-oriented architectures and browser-based interfaces, deployed through…
WMS saves libraries time and money to improve user services
At the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, 'Our students define the future,' said Head Librarian, Amada Marcos Blázquez. The library provides 24/7 support,…
Users don’t expect social networking from libraries
A new study from OCLC reveals that just 13 per cent of the public feels it is the role of the library to create…