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The article focuses on how to build a the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) library to support student research. Topics inlcude the role of bibliometrics in evaluating resources and building a STEM library collection in school libraries, the collection being to reflect the year long STEM Fair initiative for 4th–6th grade talented students, and the STEM special collections should support students being the result of the scientific method of systematic investigation.

The article focuses on the white paper "Meeting the E-Resources Challenge: An OCLC Report" released by the Online Computer Library Center. Topics discussed include the journey undertaken by library users through a series of websites and online services, the role of the Internet in the growing complexity of the user journey and the importance of systems interoperability to user experience research. Also mentioned is the assessment of evidence-based collection development.

The article talks about Parchment Community Library in Michigan. The topics discussed include digitization of oral histories of Library and backed up to cloud storage, duplicated on a locally shared drive, burned to circulating CDs, and shared publicly via an embedded streaming player on library's website; details on local media player installation which supports streaming directly from library's website, and information on exposing the collection.

In the article, the author discusses the strategies that libraries can adopt to establish and expand their digital collections. He cites as example the Berkeley Discovery learning space project they launched at University of California-Berkeley (UC-Berkeley). Also cited are the efforts by libraries to transform their library spaces and digital platforms to enhance hybrid learning, and the tools like LibGuides, homegrown finding aids, and training workshops.

The article focuses on the growing importance of collection expertise in the digital landscape, highlighting the collaboration between librarians and publishers. Topics discussed include the increasing interest in digital custodianship among content creators, the power of visual media in community building and scholarly communication, and the embrace of collaboration among content managers to address challenges like peer review and data services.

The article discusses the development of citation research and analysis tools to help simplify the works of librarians. The concept of citation research was pioneered by Eugene Garfield when he developed the Science Citation Index in the 1950s. Researchers use citation analysis to keep up with developments in their fields. Thompson Reuters and Elsevier BV are two companies leading in citation analysis.

The article offers information on the preservation of library special collections using digital technology and the importance of data management in it. Topics discussed include the constant changes in the field of digital library development, the importance of collaboration between research libraries in preservation, and the need to promote library skills in archiving as well as data management.

The article offers open source technology industry news briefs as of March and April 2018. Topics mentioned include the plan by Clarivate Analytics to re-establish Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the change of collection practice on tweets by the Library of Congress (LOC), and the website developed by the American Physiological Society for its journals.

The article offers brief information on various software including the SydneyEnterprise library automation system from Lucidea, the dinStorage S3 cloud storage application from dinCloud and the Hadoop RDBMS or relational database management system from Splice Machine Inc.

The article describes the redesign done on the Leroy M. Douglas Sr. Library at the George Moore Academic and Administrative Building of Clinton Community College in New York. A brief background on the college is presented. The project also entailed discussions on dealing with the maintenance and establishment of media collections.

The article traces the evolution of knowledge management and evaluates the application of notebook computer products for enhancing workplace productivity and time management of librarians. It discusses the development of Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and electronic notebook software. The article compares Microsoft Corp.'s OneNote and Evernote Corp.'s Evernote and identifies their advantages and disadvantages.

In the article the author contends that technology has no impact on the core of library service which is organizing, providing access and guiding others in the use of materials. She explains that at the Calcasieu Parish Public Library, such service roles have traditionally been managed by Technical Services, Circulation and Reference. During the 1990s, she says, librarians create a record of the library's holdings by vendor catalogs, magazines and patron's handwritten suggestions, among others. The job description of circulation staff is described.

The article discusses the trends in digital preservation such as digital acquisitions and donor relations. It mentions that institutions are revising donor agreements to accommodate requirements of digital accessions and formulating methods of handling sensitive personal information. It highlights advantages of working with donors to help archivists and librarians understand collections to process them and provide reference services.

The article presents updates from the publishing industry as of January 2015. Topics discussed include the decision of Nature Publishing Group to make all of its 48 journals free to read in the proprietary screen view format in ReadCube, the acquisition of Moreover Technologies by LexixNexis Legal & Professional, and the acquisition of Infotrieve by Copyright Clearance Center. The addition of 250 American Psychological Association ebook titles to the ProQuest ebrary platform is mentioned.

The article informs about advancing the cloud in close alignment with local collections will yield new opportunities for curators to partner with far-flung collaborators. Topics include attention-grabbing e-resources can be seen in the Bancroft Library's project documenting the internment of West Coast Japanese Americans during World War II; and emphasized building persistent local resources even as cloud services and collections continue to advance.

The article focuses on art of archiving photos with script and batch processing. Topics inlcude the harvest photographs housed only in web-based photo galleries on the law school website and import them into our repository's collection, the digital repositories were initially promoted as a mechanism to capture the scholarly output of an institution, and the library's initial approach to capturing scholarly output has focused heavily on faculty publications.

The article focuses on South Carolina State Library (SCSL) similar to many state libraries provides access to publications produced by state agencies and state-supported academic institutions. It mentions SCSL retains three copies for the library's collection and distributes the rest to participating depository libraries and the Library of Congress (LC). It also mentions South Carolina State Documents Depository provides immediate access to digitized and born-digital state agency documents.

The article offers technology industry news briefs as of May 2018. The Library of Congress (LC) announces the online availability of the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Gale Small Business Builder comprehensive tool is offering integrated access to its business and legal resources. Solutions provider bibliotheca debuted its open library solution in North America.

The article discusses the considerations and action items involved in the cooperative collection development of electronic books (ebooks). It mentions that one of the factors that libraries should consider when collecting ebooks is that it is possible to develop an ebook account for consortium members. The article also discusses such topics as ebook vendors, ebook databases, and costs.

The article discusses use of artificial intelligence in law library management and legal research. It discusses purpose of Library Maintenance Agreements (LMA) introduced by Thomas Reuters. Topics include access to electronic resources with Onelog, software solutions for the library such as MyPC and R&R and Legislative Outlook in Lexis Advance.

This section offers news briefs on information technology as of April 2014. It announces the launch of EDP Open, an open access imprint for scientific journals, from publisher EDP. It informs about the packaging of the Law PreDiscovery and Concordance Evolution tools from LexisNexis Legal & Professional with the Vblock Systems portfolio from cloud infrastructure system company VCE. A preview of the Access to Research pilot project of the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) is presented.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including tips for making infographics using free web apps; personal archiving; and collection strategies for public and academic libraries.

Statistics are presented regarding the number of U.S. adults who believe that fake news stories, percentage by which the newspaper workforce has contracted in the past 20 years and position of Pokémon GO in the list of the most downloaded apps worldwide from Apple's App Store.

The article examines how libraries can better adopt to the expansion of the global e-book market. Topics discussed include resolution of ownership and digital rights management issues, competitive pricing of e-books, and the rise of streaming media. The increasing trend of self-publishing, reform of licensing agreements, and the shift in the role of librarians from the access end of publishing chain are then mentioned.

The article focuses on the challenges of managing digital, electronic and print library collections. Topics discussed include information resources span quite a variety of physical and electronic formats, prompting major changes in the nature of the resource management and discovery services created for libraries, complications for organizations that create technologies for collections management and discovery and subscription fees and open access (OA) resources.

The author comments on technology topics of importance to libraries. He argues that the problem of the librarians centers on the statistics they use to track usage in their databases and digital products that does not tell them what they need to know, which is damaging the progress of quality digital content and libraries. The author also advocates for a sector-wide approach and sharing of impact and user experience studies that increase their collections on the mandates of their universities.

The author offers guidelines to institutions on choosing rare books and special collections to digitize for successful digital assets. She explains the importance of selection for digitization including shaping the online collections that are built by libraries, archives and historical societies. She suggests that institutions should have a selection process to evaluate materials and determine when digital conversion is most appropriate. The cost of digitization is also discussed.

The article discusses what librarians can do when people start keying words into an electronic screen and storing them in the ether for readers to call up at will. Google and Amazon offer large collections and with the book scanning project, Google will become the largest library. It discusses the role librarians will play in a fully digital information and library services. It notes that digitization will allow librarians to get rid of buildings to house books.

The article focuses on adopting independently published ebooks into library collections. Online educator and elearning consultant Patricia Delich narrates about the Yuba College library not having a platform to host her self-published ebook. Librarian and doctoral student Elena Heilman discusses using Drexel University's ebook resources through the Web-based discovery service Summon. The solution of placing a read-only PDF version of Delich's ebook on Yuba College's portal is explored.

The article presents resources for librarians serving Spanish readers in the U.S. One cited resources is "America Reads Spanish," a collaboration between the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade and the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds. The project has a website located at http://www.americareadsspanish.org. Another resource located at http://www.reforma.org, REFORMA, promotes various initiatives including the development of library collections to include Spanish-language and Latin-oriented materials.

The article presents a discussion about libraries developing digital content. It is suggested that libraries ask their users what resources they would like to have as part of the digital collection. It is also recommended that libraries take note of the curricula of the local academic environment in their areas.

This article describes the expansion process at Howe Library, a partnership of the nonprofit Howe Library Corp. and the town of Hanover, New Hampshire. The town, through annual appropriations, supports most of the operating budget. The Howe Library Corp., through private contributions, supplies necessary support to library collections and programs. During the expansion-planning phase, the management began to seriously consider self-check. In early 2005, the library trustees approved the self-check module and equipment from Innovative Interfaces Inc. for the $5.5 million construction budget's technology expenditures.

Describes the methods used by two health sciences librarians for developing electronic collections. Experiences of Jonathan Lord at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and of Bart Ragon at the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina; Insights offered as to how to select the kind of resources to offer, how to handle licensing agreements, sharing access with a consortium of libraries, and the establishment of a committee for dealing with such issues.

The article reports on digital textbook options for students. It states that the print versions of textbooks are so expensive that its not affordable for students to buy them. It also mentions about the selection criteria for the use of open educational resources (OER) which include being licensed under an open license, and being relevant to disciplines of focus.

This section offers news briefs on the library and information science industry as of March to April 2015. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) established in 1861 has changed its name to Government Publishing Office retaining the same acronym. ProQuest has released the initial 2 million pages of the digitized Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris, France. Amy Ryan will assume the chairmanship of the Digital Public Library of America in July 2015 for a two year term.

An interview with Derk Haank, chief executive officer (CEO) of Springer Science+Business Media, is presented. He explains the sale of the publishing company to two private equity firms in December 2009 despite its earlier plan to launch an initial public offering (IPO). Haank discusses the recovery of the company in terms of revenue growth since 2009. He also describes the Open Choice (OA) publishing model launched by Springer.

The article discusses four ideas that are driving broad dialogue and informing strategic thinking in the library profession. These ideas include the internet of things, big data, online education and commoditized collections which suggest that an information cascade is getting too big to handle. Librarians are advised to have tools of all types to interpret, filter, and create context in response to the flood of information.

The article offers insights on the importance of human interaction in the development of digital library collections. According to the author, digital collection development is an entirely social process. The involvement of metadata and quality assessment in digital collection development is explained. The author notes that digital library development projects offer an opportunity to build collaborative relationships among library professionals.

The article previews the "American History 1493-1945: From the Gilder Lehram Insititute of American History New York" Part I of the Gilder Lehman Collection, the Publicly Indexed Bibliographies with citations in a catalog from EasyBib and the updated data analysis tool Intota Assessment from ProQuest.

The article offers tips on initiating a community-based digitization project. It is asserted that library patrons may be able to ignite excitement and advance digitization projects by identifying rich historical sources of local history or advocating for a digitization project. Two examples that illustrate how patrons can play very important roles in a digitization project are also described.

The article discusses Charles Darwin notebooks have reported stolen by Cambridge University Library, there has not a sniff as to whereabouts. Topics include efforts by leading academic and scientific publishers to stop two websites from publishing copyrighted works for Indian students; and in January 2021, 19 Indian scientists and three organizations applied to intervene in the case.

The article presents information on the U.S. Library of Congress, including information on its comic book collection, its collection of more than 35 million books and print materials and the library's Braille book collection.

This article reports on the highlights of the 27th Annual Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition that was held on November 7-10, 2007 in Charleston, South Carolina. Katina Strauch, conference founder and head of collection development at the College of Charleston Library, has organized the event. This year, one major concern was how to increase the use of library services and, even for online users, make the physical library, more attractive to users. The movement toward articles as basic units of information will affect library. INSET: Information: Get Ready to Collect and Compute.

This section offers news briefs. ProQuest has completed the digitization of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s archives covering almost 2 million pages of material from 1909 to 1972. Baker & Taylor launched the Evidence-based Selection Planning (ESP) service that uses collectionHQ's data analytics. HID Global released the cloud-based HID Trusted Tag Services platform that combines trusted tags and existing secure cloud authentication services.

This section offers news briefs related to information industry as of January 2014. It discusses the acquisition of cloud-based security solutions provider Prolexic Technologies by cloud-based security platform Akamai, the new graduate degree program in data science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts and the electronic book (e-book) access agreement between computer-assisted legal research service provider LexisNexis and academic retailer Follet Higher Education Group.

The article offers news briefs related to electronic devices as December 2013. It offers information on the partnership of Ingram Content Group Inc. with Chicago Public Library to develop patron-driven acquisition (PDA) program. It mentions that ByWater Solutions launched an OverDrive, search engine. It mentions that the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) focuses on the termination of the World News Connection.

The article reports on release of the Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, which is a collection of materials that Gale promotes as the first digital archive documenting a range of radical right and fascist movements, communist and socialist groups. It mentions that Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century includes materials from the Radicalism Collection, and the National Archives.

The article presents 2013 news on the library and information technology sector. Nature Publishing Group stated that it will release Scientific Data, an online-only, open access platform. The firm Techstreet has launched a redesigned version of its Techstreet.com web site. A collaborative initiative from the companies Baker & Taylor and Polaris Library Systems will integrate Baker & Taylor's digital media circulation platform into the Polaris integrated library system (ILS).

The article offers updates on library technology in the U.S. as of July 2017. Topics covered include ValueIT software from Tech Logic that allows donated books to be scanned and sold, National Leadership Grant for Libraries award given to library network LYRASIS by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the book "Constitutional Law: Lectures, Cases, and Resources," by Chang Wang.

An interview with the leader of the open access (OA) movement and onetime stand-up comic Peter Suber is presented. When asked about his role in the movement, he mentions his involvement in making policy and strategy recommendations and how he spends a lot of time on direct assistance or pro bono consulting. Suber believes that hybrid OA is not an adequate solution because it does nothing to help publishers, libraries and researchers. He also discusses why he curtailed his blogging in mid-2009.