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In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something’s got to give.
A Puerto Rican librarian with a personal relationship to hurricanes describes the brutal reality of life on this Caribbean island more than a month after Maria and Irma left their mark.
One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation and abroad is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.
The history of the library is replete with mechanical marvels. More than collections of books, libraries are social, cultural and technological institutions that house the very idea of a society.
With a little advance planning and creativity, librarians can help keep kids and teens busy and safe during emergencies.
Why keep buying and chucking when you can rent and return?
Catalog data are a library’s most important map to knowledge. What does it mean that
the Library of Congress just released 25 million records to the public?
A new website allows you to see what other people search for in the State Library of NSW’s vast collection of artefacts – and discover things you’d never think to look up in the first place.
Since the 19th century academic librarians have helped students navigate the complex world of information. In today’s unpredictable information environment, how might they rethink their role?
When you borrow a paper book from a library, authors get a small royalty, which is their second most important source of income. Yet if you borrowed an e-book tomorrow, the author would get nothing.
The research libraries attached to Australia’s art galleries are one of the nation’s great cultural assets. But the National Gallery of Australia’s library is losing crucial staff as ‘efficiency dividends’ hit home.
For over four centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been picked apart and reimagined.
The popularity of libraries has not diminished. Numbers show more people are going to libraries than ever before. Here’s why.
Many libraries are now being transferred to be run by community groups. These volunteers play an important role but libraries should not be sacrificed for economic or political expediency.
It’s a common assumption that library use is plummeting – but that depends on which libraries you look at.
Libraries and archives have dealt with threats for centuries, but the growth of digital networks has created new hazards.
Australia has one of the world’s best reference libraries, available freely to anyone with an internet connection. Severe funding cuts will cripple Trove’s capacity – and that should worry everyone.
Scientific advances – including the recent discovery of gravitational waves – force us to deal with numbers so extreme they’re virtually inconceivable.
Sales of scholarly books are dropping, even as their prices are rising. Will academia give up its resistance to an open-access digital model?
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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