Last week’s Library Stat of the Week looked at how many researchers and students each academic or research library worker had to serve. A point mentioned in the conclusions was the fact that from one country to the next (and indeed, from one institution to the next), there may be […]
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Library Stat of the Week #29: Mexico, Slovakia and Lithuania have high numbers of academic librarians both per student and per researcher
For all that anyone would like to be purely objective or rational, we are all influenced by our attitudes. Consciously or sub-consciously, we tend to have preferences for certain ideas, values, or types of behaviour, which help shape our decisions. This is why such a key focus of library advocacy […]
Read full post…The lending of eBooks by libraries remains an area of controversy, with libraries often facing high prices and difficult licencing conditions, while publishers worry about impacts on sales and revenues to authors. A key challenge in this has been the relative newness of the format, and the lack of […]
Read full post…Libraries are at the heart of so many key discussions. Information – and the changing ways in which it is collected, produced, presented, shared and used – is a top political issue. With centuries of experience, libraries have so much to bring to any discussion Of course, these changes also […]
Read full post…Library Stat of the Week #28: On average, there are 305 students and 20 researchers per academic library worker
In recent weeks, we have looked at how numbers of academic libraries and library workers stand around the world, and what correlations there are between these, in relation to total populations, and indicators of innovation such as publishing and patenting. Another angle worth exploring is the relationship between numbers of […]
Read full post…Building Understanding, Building Confidence: Interview with Chris Morrison on the University of Kent’s Copyright Literacy Strategy
Copyright can all too often seem complicated, scary, or both. Yet having a sense of what it does, and does not permit can help avoid accidental infringements, as well as preventing situations where library users do not take full advantage of the possibilities open to them. Chris Morrison, at the […]
Read full post…Connections and communications between libraries are a great way of learning. IFLA is all about providing a space and opportunity to do this, across borders, between library types. We all have things we can share with others, as well as ways we can gain by listening. But this is particularly […]
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