20 heroic librarians who save the world
And now, a little levity.
What’s happening at Harvard? « Feral Librarian
Chris took the time to sift through the morass of information coming from #hlth yesterday. Here is the result.
Harvard has the second largest endowment in the world, second only to the funds held by the Vatican. If Harvard is unwilling to fund research librarians, you can bet most US libraries will quickly ditch their staff as well. This will impact your health, because it impacts medical research. This will impact the economy, because it will impact engineers needing information access. This will impact all areas of R&D in the United States, because much of the in-depth research assistance to those working on DARPA, NIH, and other government grants is - surprise!! - conducted on behalf of researchers by academic and research librarians.
Tweets on #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall)
Massive reorganization and layoffs are imminent at Harvard Library. Follow #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall) for more information as it comes.
Penguin Further Narrows Library Access, Suspending Availability of Audiobook Titles — The Digital Shift
What is going on, Penguin?
Librarians Turn Wikipedia Blackout Into a Teachable Moment
That is what we do.
(Source: whereipostthings, via thelifeguardlibrarian)
So what would happen if say on April 1, 2012 academic libraries around the country turned off their proxies? Would the world notice or would people just think that the servers at Science were down for the afternoon?
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers.
If you are missing Wikipedia today, learn why. And maybe laugh (or cry) at @herpderpedia while you’re at it.
Then go to the library.
Library Visits at Historic High
Total visits in the last ten years increased by nearly 40%. Who said the library was no longer relevant?
