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[THIRTY] YEARS OF MONITORING LONGTERM TRENDS--24 FOR COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES--HAS ITS REWARDS. BUT AFTER MORE THAN 3 DECADES, WHERE DOES CONVERGENCE STAND? Memories vary about when digital convergence first hit [...]

RESEARCHERS ARE EXPLORING WHAT IS NOW POSSIBLE USING DATA ANALYTICS, AND WE OWE IT TO OUR USERS TO PUT FORWARD OUR DEVELOPING VISION OF THE DATAVERSE ALONGSIDE OUR COLLABORATORS. Conversations [...]

WITHOUT A STRATEGY TO SAFEGUARD PEER REVIEW, ARTICLE-BASED OPERATING SYSTEMS MIGHT ATOMIZE THE JOURNAL WITHOUT PROVIDING A NEW FOUNDATION FOR PEER REVIEW. Digital collections are fully integrated into research at [...]

Information professionals are very accustomed to wisecracks that go something like this: 'Everything I need is on the web--I never go to the library.' By now most of us have [...]

For most of us, the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the term 'blockchain' is bitcoin, as in the cryptocurrency and innovation in online financial transactions. Indeed, [...]

Thirty years of innovation in digital preservation have reshaped how the library profession perceives itself, as well as how it interacts with scholars in every field. Large-scale digitization has advanced [...]

It was just a few years ago that online repositories were established as an ideal platform for hosting persistently accessible digital artifacts, chiefly manuscripts on their way to publication. Since [...]

Library content managers have long faced an interesting public relations challenge: explaining why our repository interfaces seem behind the times. Robust content platforms might be working just fine, but they [...]

Digital library development has become a mainstay of professional practice, not only for collection development and programming experts, but for anyone who has a public-facing role in the library. This [...]

One of the seldom-mentioned advantages of being a librarian is, at least for me, one of the more surprising: Unlike many other experts and professionals, we have long known that [...]

As I think about CIL's November issue and the timely topic of media strategies, I'm reminded that by the time this issue appears online and in print, Internet Librarian International [...]

Having made information science my second career, I have always benefited from comparing what matters to us with what mattered in my past field of expertise: independent bookselling. Back then, [...]

Whenever CIL focuses on innovation, it's tempting to look at what is in the technology pipeline. However, the month of December also triggers an urge to assess the past year's [...]

Librarians have embraced the internet and mastered the web, and they are building profiles in social media. These have become our core skills. Now we have yet another exciting opportunity [...]

As of this writing, I had two intriguing conversations with University of California-Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) economists about the potential of adding machine-generated data in their field of study. In the first [...]

As digital information continues to reshape society and our beliefs about what is possible, there has been a corresponding growth in awareness that the digital tools we use today may [...]

Twentieth-century computing has seen the rise and fall of several 'business computing models' since scientists in white coats ran their first routine on the ENIAC. IBM's white coaters and white-collar […]

Even though I run a library and I'm called a librarian, nowadays my portfolio of responsibilities goes far beyond my library role. Much of what I do is all about [...]

This issue of CIL is focused on next-generation OPACs, discovery systems, and the new direction we are going with library systems. While my original plan for this column was to [...]

Ever since mass digitization appeared, thanks to Google, the innovation cycle in the library market has been accelerating and behaving much more similar to the high-tech marketplace at large. This [...]

In the January/February issue of CIL, I focused on a University of California-Berkeley faculty report that called for a renewed commitment and new resources for the university's library. Each page [...]

For those of us who are charged with reviewing and assessing the status of the library profession, December can be a wonderful time of the year. The reason is that [...]

I've been writing about the potential of special collections to create excitement among our users for a long time now. This is because I have often found that the best [...]

Director of Library and Information Resources Institute for Research on Labor and Employment University of California--Berkeley By now, nearly every large research library is deeply involved in user surveys, and [...]

The internet's greatest strength--access to vast amounts of information--is also its greatest challenge. With so much information available, searching and finding the best resources takes a lot of effort for [...]

The ebook is a new medium, but it follows many other breakthrough products with histories of disruption, adoption, market acceptance, and the forging of new business relationships. Perennials such as [...]

Although it is pretty easy to find colleagues who will express fatigue or frustration about the constant need for libraries to prove their value proposition, there is also an upside [...]

It is hard to dispute the idea that the most popular social media services, such as Facebook and Twitter, got their start providing a 'fun' experience for their users. Fun [...]

Digital migrations have been going on for quite a while. Lately, the rate of evolution seems to be accelerating once again; with so many ventures and concepts in play, it [...]

Last year, I wrote about the ascendance of HathiTrust as a banner initiative for broad-level collaboration. Lately, as I have watched the trust grow, I have been thinking about how [...]

For my column this month I want to address a perennial challenge we all face: namely, how to keep up with successive waves of new technology, the new workflows they [...]

Digital librarians staked their first claim in mobile services by making online catalogs and aggregated journal collections accessible. 'Mobilizing' these two core services has been an excellent strategy on a [...]

Library incursions into the web-scale world as well as into cloud-based services are among the most exciting trends to write about. Because web-scale projects are nascent and growing fast, the [...]

Recently I attended a fundraising event that featured Richard L. Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, and California governor Jerry Brown. Over the course of the evening, I talked to several [...]

Google's ambitious digitization initiative has been followed both with fascination and concern ever since it was launched. Much of the controversy surrounded issues of ownership, copyright, and the risks of [...]

Working as I do in a community of senior faculty and doctoral-level students, I've had many opportunities to watch and participate in projects that try to bring social media to [...]

Usually when I write about digitization, I am drawn to the strategic and political benefits of using new digital collections to create excitement. Newly digitized resources have been valuable marketing [...]

Most information professionals date the start of the 'online era' with the rollout of Dialog, Lockheed's foray into the world of pay for-use online searching. Many other systems quickly appeared, [...]

Our rapidly evolving digital world inspires much use of nautical terminology: navigation, discovery, the voyage, the new terrain at the end of the journey. Considering how quickly new technologies are [...]

When CIL's editorial leaders crafted Vol. 29's themes, they were challenged to think about what might be happening in library technology some 12 months into the future. That's a constructive […]

I ran a business as a first career, and I have brought several beliefs along with me into the information profession. Perhaps having a board of directors, a monthly profit/loss […]

In understanding how current technologies are impacting digital library development and services, it can be very useful to stay familiar with the literature of the whole of the internet era, […]

As anyone who follows my column knows, I work at a very large and famous university. And I like to comment on what happens here. Although the library I manage […]

Change has been the one constant of the Web 2.0 era. New interactive technologies and whole new ideas of community are emerging on the web--these are the kinds of innovations […]

The pace of online 'content creation' has never been faster. The explosive growth in blogs and their growing influence, not to mention the money they create for entrepreneurs, is just […]

Library websites play an interesting role in the universe of digital resources we now take for granted. We rely upon them daily, yet we seem to have much to complain […]

Looking back to library school, I recall that I loved children's literature and storytelling class, even though I knew I was heading toward the corporate sector at the time. Storytelling […]

I've mentioned more than once to CIL editor Kathy Dempsey that writing about 'hip hightech' is one of my faves as a columnist. I think the main reason I like […]

We've put a great deal of thought into how to pipe digital resources to all of the places they're needed. And we've seen some important successes. In particular, government information […]

Scanning, converting, 'ingesting,' and preserving: They're not going away anytime soon. In fact, these tasks have grown in importance, complexity--and prestige. Nonetheless, the fact remains that some solid work with […]