Libraries & the Post-PC Era…02.29.12

New from IFLA: “Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries”…02.29.12

From Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries:

“Electronic resources represent an increasingly important component of the collection building activities of libraries. “Electronic resources” refer to those materials that require computer access, whether through a personal computer, mainframe, or handheld mobile device. They may either be accessed remotely via the Internet or locally. Some of the most frequently encountered types are:

• E-journals

• E-books

• Full-text (aggregated) databases

• Indexing and abstracting databases

• Reference databases (biographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopaedias, etc.)

• Numeric and statistical databases

• E-images

• E-audio/visual resources

This Guide focuses exclusively on electronic resources whether acquired via purchase or license, free from the web, born digital or multiple format materials (e.g., CD-ROM combined with a book). Electronic resources present a number of challenges not encountered with the selection and acquisition of traditional analog materials and it is advisable for the library to develop clear policies and processes for the selection and management of such resources. This will provide clarity to staff and ensure that electronic resources within the library are developed with due consideration of cost, technical feasibility, licensing, access and preservation requirements, and constraints…”

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How People Spend Their Time Online…02.29.12

Social Media and Fundraising for Non-Profits…02.29.12

Who Really Uses LinkedIn?…02.28.12

IBM Research Announces New Advances in Quantum Computing…02.28.12

Technology, Media, Telecommunications 2012…02.27.12

NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition…02.27.12

Download your copy of the Horizon Report free now at http://go.nmc.org/2012-hi-ed.

Who Will Buy the iPad3…02.26.12

Walden Media is Moving Forward to Film Rex Libris…02.24.12

According to Variety:

“Walden Media is moving ahead on development of ‘Rex Libris,’ tapping Ben Zazove to adapt the humorous sci-fi graphic novel.

Walden acquired feature rights to ‘Rex’ last year, which follows the zombie-slaying adventures of librarian Rex Libris as he protects the books of the Middleton Public Library and guards the world’s literary treasures from a host of supernatural foes.

The graphic novel is written and drawn by James Turner, and published quarterly by Slave Labor Graphics. Warner Bros. had announced in 2007 that ‘Rex Libris’ was in development with Mosaic Media producing…”

Information Overload and Technology…02.24.12

Marketing on Pinterest…02.24.12

Librarian David Lee King Testing out the Zoom H4N Handy Recorder…02.24.12

How Digital Millennium Copyright Act Takedown Notices Work…02.24.12

Counjuring Arts Research Center – Ground Zero for Illusionists and Historians…02.23.12

New Neilsen Report: Generation C – The Most Connected Generation…02.23.12

New from Nielsen and NM Incite’s U.S. Digital Consumer Report:

“…The most recent U.S. Census finds 18- to 24-year-olds make up 23% of the population. Yet they watch 27% of online videos, constitute 27% of visitors to social networking sites, own 33% of tablets and use 39% of smartphones. When it comes to watching TV, they are exactly in proportion with their ratio of the population, representing 23% of TV viewers…”

How to Generate Demand with Content Marketing…02.23.12

Wirelessly Powered, Self-Propelled Medical Device…02.23.12

Is Internet Use An Addiction?…02.23.12

Simulating The Brain – The Blue Brain Project…02.23.12

What Mobile Users Will and Won’t Put Up With…02.23.12

2012 Digital Marketing Outlook…02.22.12

Content Marketing Update…02.22.12

Library in Your Pocket – Mobile Technologies…02.22.12

The Rise of the Independent Workforce in the New Economy…02.21.12

Managing Professional Information Overload…02.21.12

Pew Center Presentation: Speaking the Language of the Next Generation…02.20.12

New Nielsen Report: U.S. Smartphone Growth by Age and Income

Survey: New U.S. Smartphone Growth by Age and Income:

“…While overall smartphone penetration stood at 48 percent in January, those in the 24-34 age group showed the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership, with 66 percent saying they had a smartphone. In the same age group, 8 of 10 of those that had gotten a new device in the last three months chose a smartphone. Among those who chose a device in the last three months, more than half of those under 65 had chosen a smartphone…”

New Single-Atom Transistor ‘End of Moore’s Law’ – ‘Beginning of Quantum Computing’…02.20.12

Getting eBooks from OverDrive onto a Kindle (via WiFi)…02.20.12