Introducing The Source
Grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world
By Greg Meckbach; IT World Canada website
Don Tapscott, author of "Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing your World", discusses why the next generation is more sociable and better at collaborating than the TV generation. Tapscott said there is no evidence young people today have worse social skills than their parents. “Time online is not taken away from hanging out with your friends or talking to your parents,” he said. "It’s taking time away from television. When the baby boomers were kids watching TV, you could hardly say that was social activity.” Spending time online, he said, prepares today’s youth well for the workplace. “Overall, they have better active working memories. They have better switching abilities between activities, they are better manipulators of information. They naturally know how to collaborate better than baby boomers. In their culture is the new culture of work.”
Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers
From the Ariadne (Issue 57, October 2008) website
Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.
Brave New World: Reference librarians in the age of Google
By Jacob Dagger; Duke Magazine (Vol. 94, No. 5, September-October 2008) website
At a symposium hosted last year by Columbia University's library system, Steven Bell, a librarian from Temple University, took a controversial stand. In a public debate before an audience made up almost entirely of reference librarians, Bell argued for the abolition of the reference desk by the year 2012. His position wasn't as radical as it might sound. He wasn't advocating that his listeners retire or find new jobs. To the contrary, he said he believes that their services are more important than ever. But with the Internet changing not only the ways that people - students, scholars, and even librarians - conduct research, but also how they communicate, he believes the old model of a desk staffed by highly trained reference librarians is well on its way to becoming outdated, perhaps even extinct. In its place, he and others envision a world, not so far off, where librarians are available 24/7 to apply their finely honed research skills and knowledge of information systems to helping patrons search the vast digital stacks of the Internet, as well as the brittle pages of old newspapers and musty shelves stocked with incunabula.
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
From the Ariadne (Issue 57, October 2008) website
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.
Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication (Note: PDF)
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) website
The networked digital environment has enabled the creation of many new kinds of works that are accessible to end users directly, and many of these resources have become essential tools for scholars conducting research, building scholarly networks, and disseminating their ideas and work. The decentralized distribution of these new model works can make it difficult to fully appreciate their scope and number, even for university librarians tasked with knowing about valuable resources across the disciplines. In the spring of 2008, ARL engaged Ithaka to conduct an investigation into the range of online resources valued by scholars, paying special attention to those projects that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them.
The final report identifies eight principal types of digital scholarly resources:
• E-only journals
• Reviews
• Preprints and working papers
• Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and annotated content
• Data
• Blogs
• Discussion forums
• Professional and scholarly hubs
This report profiles each of these eight types of resources, including discussion of how and why the faculty members reported using the resources for their work, how content is selected for the site, and what sustainability strategies the resources are employing. Each section draws from the in-depth interviews to provide illustrative anecdotes and highlight representative examples.
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