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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 evolving landscape of digital convergence in professional life and workplaces over the past 30 years reflecting on three trends including professionals pushing back and cross-examining digital convergence, return to core professional values for new ideas, and preservation of individual authority during organizational change. It also emphasizes importance of understanding human interactions in employment relationship to navigate ongoing digital convergence effectively.

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 assesses the incorporation of metrics into library planning and futures in the U.S. It points out the potential of library metrics to affect library collections and training programs. Also noted is the benefit of statistics collected by such institutions as the Association of Research Libraries and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition to the promotion of library services. It emphasizes the importance of storytelling to the profession and library futures.

In the article, the author examines the efforts by U.S. libraries to prepare for the future and optimize the digital learning opportunities of students to prepare them for success in college, career and citizenship. Also cited are how said efforts can empower ordinary people to embrace lifelong learning and expand their discovery skills, and the views of journalist Michael Schrage as cited in his book "Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration."

The article focuses on the Lockdown Lessons for Library Services. Topisc discussed include Library collections have benefited indirectly from these pandemic coping skills; these changes were effective and reveal the remarkable flexibility of digital collections; and the ability to witness collections evolve in real time invites our users to think about the entire information lifecycle.

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 focuses on educational resilience. Topics inlcude the West Coast has faced repeated and serious fire disasters, the severe 2019 fire season gave Bay Area residents a taste of extended emergency lockdowns, and the California has faced severe air quality hazards and rolling blackouts that were intended to reduce the risk of fire.

The article focuses on the requirement of building digital libraries. It mentions the challenges for library innovations as effective innovation which requires two skills, the ability to see a trend before others and the ability to transform that vision into a new venture that empowers users; and also focuses on developing optimistic and abstract visions of the library's mission to persuade key administrators who prefer pragmatic strategies.

The article offers information on the support of a new era of the Artisanal Research. Topics discussed include using a variety of research tools and legacy online services such as e-resources under license, newer services such as Google and its targeted products and social media; new opportunities to offer support to scholars; and interpreting the discovery process.

The article offers information on the Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference that was held in Washington, D.C on March 26, 2019. Topics discussed include the use of the history of Long Island, New York by public librarians for community engagement, an increase in online attention of library user with the use of video on social media by librarians Nick Tanzi and Sara Roye; and the use of crowdsourcing for digital collection development.

The article offers information on the use of streaming media to build digital libraries. Topics discussed include outreach potential of streaming video of shared digital collections; patron-driven-acquisition (PDA) model of Kanopy; and use of Kanopy to watch thousands of free videos through libraries.

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 discusses digital publishing as the next skill in U.S. libraries. It claims that digital publishing is evolving quickly but the profession has yet to view library-based publishing projects as a new form of innovation or a potential library skill. It looks at what constitutes the publishing process and how the skills to publish have become more accessible. It talks about publishing skills overlapping library expertise, scholarly marketplace initiatives, and library-based strategies.

The article informs about how Librarians have demonstrated that they are more than able to innovate, take risks, and find new ways to engage with their user communities. Topics include how there is a new perception emerging of how they can engage in partnerships, which may bring exciting changes to their profession; and how Librarians have also applied crowdsourcing strategies to ambitious projects.

The article discusses the building of digital libraries in the U.S and approaches to interest researchers in library services. Topics covered include varied research styles, the value of the information lifecycle, tailored outputs to multiple audiences, and the arguing of value propositions by librarians. Also noted is the need for digital research leaders to interact with experts in different fields and show how they can be of help to them.

The article discusses the connection between a librarian and a digital communicator. Library skill is a strategic resource that can transfer to a broader field within organizations. Digital communicators use public service strategies to create outreach opportunities. The strategies command to extend the services, community and values of the library to the users. Background on the fundraising effort of the library team at the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California in Berkeley is presented.

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 discusses the highlights of a survey on library services conducted at the University of California-Berkeley in 2012. Findings showed that seven in 10 users used the library a great deal or a fair amount. Data indicate that the library is central to the mission of the university and that interactions with patrons leave them better off than they were before. The value of high touch services and the responses on collection issues are also addressed.

The article deals with the search for the next value proposition of information professionals amidst the technological breakthrough of the Internet and social media. It notes the importance of effectively communicating new value propositions to personalities such as deans, managing partners, vice presidents and city council members that continuously judge budgets and services. It also presents three suggested value propositions such as online teacher, content creator and digital custodian.

In the article the author defines some "service" moments in library science in 2010. These are service, communication, teaching and publishing. The advent of technology and its impact on librarians are highlighted. The experience of the University of California at Berkeley is detailed. The emerging role of information professionals as enablers, including building relationships with those who are resistant to change, is examined.

The author offers information on building a digital libraries in the U.S. He mentions of his attending a meeting of Wiley's North American Library Advisory Board in New York in May 2016, he discusses a session that focused on electronic learning space in future and he mentions that all long-term strategies for publishing must address the full lifecycle so as to encourage digital libraries.

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 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.

The article focuses on the integration of digital publishing into the library industry in which a study was conducted in 2010 by the deans of the libraries at Purdue University in Indiana, the University of Utah and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The study found an assortment of projects being developed like policy reports, ebooks publication and data curation. It also discusses the creation of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) which develops a shared publishing framework.