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The article offers information on the evolving role of digital libraries in understanding user behavior and emphasizes the social aspect of information and collections. Topics include the convergence of digital collections and services; the significance of physical collections in the digital age; metrics revealing user engagement with library resources; and the impact of data analytics on information management and user outreach strategies.

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.

Lately, I have been expanding my forays into some of the more popular public libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area in search of historical resources. While fun in its [...]

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.

In the article, the author discusses some strategies to ensure users are enjoying digital library services amidst the coronavirus pandemic, particularly the use of library metrics. Also cited are their use of targeted access and information counseling to reach potential users, the faculty outreach programs of the University of California--Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) library, and the user training sessions covering topics like information literacy and the future of publishing.

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 describes repositories as ideal sites for manuscripts, articles, and supporting files. It notes that data repositories has natural alignment with document repositories, with each resource adding value to the other. It adds that they are also working on data and file management solutions.

The article offers information on the demand of greater engagement by new technology. Topics discussed include excellence of digital collections; data initiatives underway in every sector of higher education; and importance of people's professionals to sow reliable facts in the fields of the public discourse, building coalition. It also mention about the engagement in the art of information management.

The article focuses on the changing digital library user expectations amid the latest advances in open access repositories, with a focus on the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Other topics include an overview of the library's venture into digital publishing, challenges associated with conforming to content management system (CMS) standards, and advantages possessed by the library profession.

The article discusses how digital library development has become an important component of professional practice. Topics include new synergy between digital collection development and educational initiatives, creation of collections using generous grant funding, and linking of web repositories to online public access catalog (OPACs).

The article discusses several aspects of politics and storytelling within digital libraries in the context of technological change. It mentions battle-hardened academic librarians are accustomed to ideological warfare in the marketplace of ideas. It also mentions phenomenon of storytelling is gaining special attention from European regulators; and need for faculty members to learn from their students.

The article looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with the growing library-curate data collections. Topics covered include the involvement of libraries in the business of receiving and storing data on behalf of researchers, a local initiative that illustrates the effective transfer of library skills to data curation and administration, and the strategies for understanding how users interact with their data. Also cited are workflows, community-building, and data-specific lingo.

The article provides insights for libraries on creating an intellectual ecology with the use of digital technology. Topics discussed include the opportunities presented by the online classroom and the massive open online course (MOOC) for online library services, ways for getting involved in interface design for mobile computing, and software that libraries should learn to use such as HTML5, JavaScript and Drupal.

The article mentions that the 2012-2014 European Advisory Board of book publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has vetted an idea of integrating various search tools. The integration goal is a seamless user experience, blending the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) with open web search. The article also discusses how European librarians view the space they manage and reports that the British government announced in July 2012 of its acceptance of the Finch report, chaired by Dame Janet Finch.

The author discusses how applications give libraries an opportunity to brand their services. When developing a suite of information services based on applications, the author suggests thinking more about individuals in many instances, citing several applications that pertain to reading, borrowing and searching for books. The advantages of developing an application ecosystem in the mobile environment are discussed including emphasizing the independence judgment of users.

The article reviews the strategies practiced by the University of California Libraries, which has enabled it to survive and reap a return on investments (ROI) for 35 years of budgetary cuts. The first, known as continuous improvement calls on all employees to think of ways to improve operations. The second strategy is industrywide collaboration in all aspects of library work, including cataloging, union catalogs and chat reference.

The author discusses the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Authors' Guild and other authors' groups outside the U.S. against HathiTrust and the universities of California, Cornell, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The lawsuit involves the HathiTrust and universities' possession and use of 7 million digital book copies that were scanned by Google for them. The lawsuit also touched on HathiTrust and groups' policies to share and distribute orphan works from the Google collections.

The article offers tips on designing a library's website. Observed design trends among some innovative library websites include the compact nature of links on their homepages and the placing of search buttons in plain sight. Some libraries also use their sites as a key tool for public relations, fundraising and community outreach, for their benefit and that of their host organization.

The author comments that the digital revolution has led to universities and communities working to build new libraries and redesigning venerable facilities. He discusses the characteristics of a successful effort to preserve and enhance library space. He also offers strategies for building new libraries and outlines the challenges and benefits of such project.

The article compares how two undergraduate researchers used information technology in conducting projects at the University of California's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) Library in Berkeley. The first researcher worked on a study about sweatshop workers while the second one explored the use of music as organizing tool of labor unions. One of their similarities was that they failed to use structured language to find the information they needed. In contrast to the second researcher, the first one did not use the library's web guides.

This article focuses on the automation initiatives for basic library operations. Understanding how to design effective library facilities and make smart technology decisions is not a simple task. Institutions of higher education are diverse, but taken together they are an industry that continues to allot big budget on academic library construction and renovation. Some buildings are brand new, many involve adding space. Managers have to make decisions about how to provide access to collection, even as technology keeps lobbing new products at designers and architects. Library space is widely recognized as social space, and this awareness is gaining ground among architectural and interior designers.

This article explains the importance of education in computer safety at the library of the University of California-Berkeley. Berkeley's local impact on the intellectual and cultural life of the Bay Area, in San Francisco, California, is far-reaching. This is particularly true when the underlying causes of the successive security breaches they have witnessed locally have to do with person-to-machine interfaces of a more mobile nature than usual. The Berkeley campus has instituted vastly tighter security rules, anticipating a highly publicized moment in June 2005 when minimum-security guidelines will be enforced for any computer that is connected to the campus network. Information technology professionals at Berkeley are doing their jobs and have protected the network itself to a reasonable degree. But the one set of factors that is the most difficult to guarantee is also the most familiar: individual user patterns. How we choose to use computers on a daily basis creates a set of security threats that can only be countered by education and outreach. More than ever, security has become an instructional concern. Education is key. Digital librarians, both as content managers and instructors, have a lot to offer.

The article focuses on electronic awareness in library management. Topics discussed include massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Udacity, data acquisition and social media and the concept of sharing. Information on electronic scholar, electronic data and electronic help is offered. Developing clever and flexible data-acquisition strategies is suggested.

The article discusses the roles of insiders in strategic planning in public and academic libraries, as well as libraries with corporate settings. Particular focus is given to the important role of insiders in the outcomes of a library's struggle for space and control of services offered. It discusses the squabbles over collections, particularly print collections, in a library, and the insiders' part in discussions regarding library futures.

The article highlights the value of users as key alliances of information professionals in building digital libraries. It references the University of California-Berkeley's October 2013 document "Report of the Commission on the Future of the UC Berkeley Library." It claims that the report can serve as an example of how librarians form alliances, influence institution-level and global-level debates about information, and work to create buy-in for bold ideas from their own user communities.