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You’ve seen those bright yellow Rosetta Stone kiosks offering programs for learning languages ranging from French and German to Swahili and Tagalog. Rosetta Stone also helps indigenous communities preserve their languages. Created in 2004, the Endangered Language Program provides communities with a language learning template, training, technology, recording and photography services, and project planning for creating custom Rosetta Stone software.  [...]

Working in an academic library, the topic of ebooks put on Reserve has come up more and more.  How do you handle more than one book on a device, and how do you deal with multiple people accessing the same item.  The issues are overwhelming.  While a print copy of a book can easily be [...]

Our collection development coordinator gave us some disturbing news today. It seems that some magazine publishers only want to deal with a single database and are selling to the highest bidder. First it was Consumer Reports. Now Time-Warner. This means that some of our most popular periodicals will not longer be part of our Infotrac [...]

This is another question asked at the Booklist webinar on 21st Century Reference Collections Q: Does David at Fresno allow all reference books to be checked out or are there some items that are retained as in library use only? I’m thinking about core resources like encyclopedias and directories (not duplicated in electronic format). A: [...]

So lastnight I’m watching the “big game” (not sure I’m allowed to say P–B— here) and up comes a commercial from KGB, advertising their text messaging reference service.  My jaw dropped, particularly when they said it’s only $.99 per question.  Just text your question to a 6 digit phone number and a KGB agent (teenagers [...]

You may be hearing the word discoverability a lot lately, either from librarians or information providers.  Discoverability, or how can students find good quality library content in this googlized world, has got all of us perplexed.  Students prefer the simplicity of a single search box, the speed of results, and the instant gratification of full [...]