| By Fred Zimmerman, Product Manager, Analytics On Demand | Analytics On Demand helps libraries achieve their strategic priorities by applying state-of-the-art data analytics tools, running on the highly-regarded Alteryx platform. Analytics On Demand blends data exported from the library ILS, in a simple spreadsheet form, with detailed household-level demographic and psychographic data from many sources … Read more
| By Kristin Mallegg | I vividly recall receiving my first college assignment to write a report and heading off to the university library to start my research. I walked through the massive front doors and stopped – the library was huge and I had absolutely no idea where to start. A few years later, … Read more
|By Mark Mikula | On January 27, 1945, the Russian Army liberated Auschwitz. Auschwitz, perhaps the most notorious World War II concentration camp, is also the name of a region on the border of Germany and Poland. Millions of people—primarily Jews—were forced into labor and killed by the Nazis during World War II in what … Read more
| By Andrea Corvin, Edgewood Community Library, New Mexico | A young patron entered the glass doors of our small library in central New Mexico and began to hesitantly browse the nonfiction section. I perked up right away because kids of his ilk (tweenagers) are, at times, a rare commodity. Desperate to make contact with … Read more
| By Judy Galens, Director, Frontlist Acquisitions & GVRL | Libraries have to deal with the complications that the digital age presents on a daily basis. The pace of change is dizzying. Innovations are both exhilarating and exhausting. And the sheer number of products that are available can be overwhelming. Choosing an eBook platform is … Read more
| By Chitraa Sridharan | The 21st-century workplace needs workers who are not just proficient with the core skills but who are also prepared to solve complex problems and adapt to changing environments using their 6C (Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking, Creative innovation, Content, Confidence) skills. In my previous blog post, I shared my learnings on … Read more
| By Traci Cothran | On Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day this past week, I was privileged to hear Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. speak at a church in downtown Detroit about the civil rights era and his last days working with MLK. Lafayette is a long-term member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee … Read more
The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA) is a membership-based committee full of those actively engaged or interested in health sciences information management. Their purpose is to promote excellence in health sciences librarianship by providing its membership with opportunities for professional growth, fostering communication between members and their regions, facilitating resource sharing, increasing awareness of … Read more
The titles below have been recently added and can be located in the product using Basic or Advanced Search forms. Titles can be found via Browse Publications within two weeks. For complete coverage information please see the product title lists. InfoTrac Newsstand Asian Image (Blackburn, England) (Newsquest Media Group Ltd.) Ayr Advertiser (Ardrossan, Scotland) (Newsquest … Read more
| By Maureen McClarnon | Last week I said that content without metadata is just a shapeless blob, bouncing around inside a database without context, meaning, or any access point. This week, in the spirit of making and keeping resolutions (which is way easier when we have entire groups of people to keep them on our … Read more