Archive for September, 2009
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An Inflection Point for American Public Libraries
September 30, 2009 | 18 commentsIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Jean Costello! Jean is a technical project manager for a prominent STM publisher. She is a passionate supporter of public libraries and blogs regularly as The Radical Patron. By Jean Costello 2009 may be an inflection point for public libraries. This year,…
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Why isn’t a picture worth a thousand words?
September 16, 2009 | 12 commentsTags: ALA, Ariel, DOCLINE, document delivery, FTP, ILL, ILL/DD, interlibrary loan, interlibrary services, National Library of Medicine, Odyssey, researchers, scanners, scanning, science, worldcatIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Kristine Alpi! Kris is the Director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University Libraries. Why do document delivery technologies limit information transfer? By Kristine Alpi The technologies that libraries use for interlibrary loan and…
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Outreach is (un)Dead.
September 2, 2009 | 26 commentsBy Emily Ford Outreach is dead. It’s time we put its body in a coffin, say our collective prayers and move on. You see, for most of the summer I undertook a long series of “outreach” trips to promote and educate the public at large about a grant-funded project I’d been working on for the past…