June 24, 2010

ACRL Report on Higher Ed in 2025 Suggests 26 Possible Scenarios GSLIS Gets Vote of Confidence in University of Illinois Faculty Review After Latest Revision, OCLC Record Use Policy To Go Live August 1 Virtual Bookshelf Application at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Wins Prize ALA OITP Study Looks at Library Response to Mobile Connectivity

Send This to Your Admissions Office Now | From The Bell Tower Fantasy Prices and Secret Deals | Peer to Peer Review SAGE launches Insight research blog; SkyRiver expands records partnerships; New Universal Class continuing ed product from Recorded Books; and more Best Sellers in Environmental Sciences

If you're headed to D.C. for ALA and still need a place to eat, see the restaurants D.C. library insiders have identified as well worth a visit.

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Enjoy the Newswire, and look for news from ALA next week. —Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• ACRL Report on Higher Ed in 2025 Suggests 26 Possible Scenarios
  A new report from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), "Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025," suggests a variety of scenarios that could dramatically affect libraries in 15 years.
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• GSLIS Gets Vote of Confidence in University of Illinois Faculty Review
  A university committee has concluded that any cost savings associated with merging departments "would be far outweighed by academic and financial risks."
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• After Latest Revision, OCLC Record Use Policy To Go Live August 1
  After more than a year and a half of proposals, withdrawals, and revisions, OCLC's final updated policy governing the usage of WorldCat records will take effect later this summer.
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• Virtual Bookshelf Application at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Wins Prize
  With applications like these, academic library users are beginning to get the browsing functionality they have come to expect from consumer sites.
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• ALA OITP Study Looks at Library Response to Mobile Connectivity
  A policy brief released this month explores the growing reality of mobile connectivity, how libraries have been serving their mobile patrons, and what risks patrons take in seeking information over mobile networks.
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• Send This to Your Admissions Office Now | From The Bell  Tower
  The library matters when students choose schools, says Steven Bell, and libraries can be better at helping them discover what's there.
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• Fantasy Prices and Secret Deals | Peer to Peer Review
  Barbara Fister wants to stop managing budgets with imaginary numbers.
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• SAGE launches Insight research blog; SkyRiver expands records partnerships; New Universal Class continuing ed product from Recorded Books; and more
  LJ Academic Newswire's Marketplace Notes.
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• Best Sellers in Environmental Sciences
  September 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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