Of course not! More than likely, librarians will still be around in the future, but the library profession will be redefined. Read the article “33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important” and decide for yourself.
From: Campus Technology’s News Update
Faculty at MIT and the Wharton School of Business have invited “thousands of authors,” including scholars and business people, to participate in a project to write a collaborative online textbook on the topic of efforts to “successfully or unsuccessfully harness the power of ‘community.’”
The sponsors of the project, using the motto, “We Are Smarter Than Me,” says its premise is that “large groups of people can, and should, take responsibility for traditional business functions that are currently performed by companies, industries and experts.”
The project will use book Wiki technology to produce a “network book,” to be authored by thousands of individuals. This will allow “the book to benefit from the collective wisdom of the community.”
Organizers of the project say the book will be ready this summer. The “We” team includes Thomas Malone, a professor of management at MIT; Barry Libert, CEO of Shared Insights LLC; Jon Spector, vice dean and director of Wharton’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education: Tim Moore, founder of Wharton School Publishing; and Yoram Wind, a professor of marketing at Wharton.
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Are you sitting in the library at this very moment, reading this online? Are you in one of the new study rooms? Want to honor someone or have your name posted with your favorite room?
100% Owen is auctioning naming rights to all Owen study rooms in the Walker Management Library and 8:10 Cafe. Bid on a room for $25, or share the cost of naming one of the study rooms with 5 friends, and that’s only $5 a person!
All proceeds benefit The Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee.
Click on the following link to learn more and BID! http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/auctions/
Vanderbilt Information Techology Services (ITS) has just recently announced VUblog, the new home for Vanderbilt’s blogging community. Everyone in the Vanderbilt community (with a current Vanderbilt email address) can set up an individual or organizational blog.
Signing up for a blog is quick and easy. Just go to the site, click the Blog Signup quick link, and sign up. A username and email will be emailed to you.
The VUblog site also includes a Frequently Asked Questions page and a link to the WordPress Help page. Support for this service comes from WordPress online and not from ITS.
Students - Did you know that the Walker Management Library offers workshops on various topics, and that you can ask someone in the library to come to your club meeting, project team, small group, party, etc.? (Librarians love parties!) That’s right! We are here to help you and will work with you to create the informational workshop that fits your needs. Also, we occasionally offer some workshops that get announced on the Owen Daily News and posted in this blog, The Spotlight,. To get an idea of the types of topics you can request, please see the list on the workshops page. The purpose of the list is to help you decide which topics you want addressed. The list is not exhaustive so if you an idea in mind, ask!
To request a workshop, please Ask a Librarian or call 322-3960 and someone will be in contact with you shortly. Thanks!
Great news! The Vault Online Career Library has added and updated several guides!
Please note: Vault Guide PDFs do NOT work with the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 8). At this time, Mac users CANNOT open Vault Guide PDFs using Adobe 8. In addition, Windows users can open Vault Guide PDFs with Adobe 8, but CANNOT PRINT the PDFs. If you have Adobe 8 and are using Windows, you can download Adobe’s new eBook reader (called “Digital Editions”), here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions/. If you are unable to access Vault Guides with Adobe 8, they recommend uninstalling Adobe 8 and downloading Adobe 7 here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html.
If you have any questions about the Vault database or you are having technical problems, please Ask a Librarian. Thanks!
Palgrave Macmillan are offering FREE online access to their complete journals portfolio from January 15th until February 14th. They publish high quality, scholarly journals across the core disciplines of business and management, social sciences and the humanities.
Following the swift growth of Palgrave Macmillan’s journals publishing program, including the acquisition of 24 titles in 2005, their website has undergone an extensive re-design process.
Their portfolio includes new journals such as British Politics, Journal of Simulation, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, and established leaders in the field such as the Journal of Brand Management, Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of the Operational Research Society.
For a limited time, they are offering free unrestricted access to ALL online content to enable current and potential subscribers to experience their resources. January 15th - February 14th, 2007 only.
If you would like to comment on this collection of resources, please use the comment feature of the blog. Thanks!
If you have questions or suggestions for the new online room reservation system, please contact George Sibble, Systems Analyst, in Owen IT (322-3737) or Brent Tenpenny, Access Services Manager in the library (343-4855). Thanks!
Business Source Premier is one of our most heavily used databases. It provides coverage to virtually all subject areas related to business, including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. In addition to covering over 7,400 major scholarly business journals, BSP also covers company reports, SWOT analyses, working papers, country reports, industry reports and other searchable categories like case studies, book reviews, product reviews, speeches, and interviews. This database is the exclusive online provider of many major journals like the Harvard Business Review, but unfortunately, it does not contain the full-text of the Wall Street Journal (see Factiva for WSJ).
Coverage is fairly impressive. Most resources cover 1965 to the present; 350 of the top scholarly journals are covered from 1922 to the present.
You can even set up journal alerts in BSP. Start by clicking on Sign In in the upper left of the main page. Then click on folders to see alert options. Instructions are available to help guide you.
If you have any questions about this resource, or on how to set up Journal Alerts, please Ask a Librarian.
EndNote - Do you use this helpful bibliographic citation management software? If so, EndNote Web is a new and valuable tool that helps ISI Web of Knowledge users easily explore research literature, write papers and collaborate via the web.
If you are unfamiliar with EndNote, please check out this guide on the Heard Library website: Questions & Answers on Using EndNote . Or you can Ask a Librarian about how to use EndNote.
If you are interested in purchasing a personal copy of EndNote, there is good news! The Vanderbilt University Software Store price for EndNote has dropped 40% from $99 to $59, saving 70% off the $199.98 academic retail price. The Vanderbilt community can expect further price decreases over time as additional demand qualifies Vanderbilt for even lower price tiers.
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