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A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit However fabulous Creative Commons and Public Domain content may be, sometimes you really need to use copyrighted material. Say you plan to comment on popular media or current events. For instance, you may be planning to critique the portrayal of Native Americans in commercial films. You are going to want to “quote” some commercial films like Pocahontas, Lone Ranger, and Dances with Wolves.

The Evolving Catalog OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era that lasted more than 150 years. As technology changes library cataloging, we look back at its history and forward into its future. Today when we say “technology,” it is often shorthand for “computer technology.” Of course this is not the only technology in our lives, but it is the one that defines our modern age. 113: William Badke – Circulating Ideas Guest host Troy Swanson chats with William B. Badke, Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University, Canada, about fake news. William B. Badke is Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University, Canada, with responsibility for information resources and research training at the Associated Canadian Theological Schools.

How To Spot Fake News Critical thinking is a key skill in media and information literacy, and the mission of libraries is to educate and advocate its importance. Discussions about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy more broadly, and the role of libraries and other education institutions in providing this. When Oxford Dictionaries announced post-truth was Word of the Year 2016, we as librarians realise action is needed to educate and advocate for critical thinking – a crucial skill when navigating the information society. IFLA has made this infographic with eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you. Download, print, translate, and share – at home, at your library, in your local community, and on social media networks.

Fake News, Alternative Facts and Librarians As Dedicated Defenders of Truth Let's be clear, there's no such thing as "alternative facts." The same fact can be used by different people to support alternative opinions, but the facts don't change. Different people can use the same facts to emphasize alternative ideas or to inform different theories, but the facts remain the same. Facts are non-partisan. Facts alone are neutral. It's what we do with them that becomes controversial. Academic Libraries (Matt Enis) PLUMBING TECHNOLOGY New platforms from Plum Analytics (top) and Altmetric.com (below) help researchers and librarians aggregate and analyze altmetric data “Altmetrics: A manifesto,” published five years ago this month, described an academic publishing landscape in which the volume of literature was exploding, and the three traditional filters used to help researchers gauge the relative importance of individual papers in their fields—peer review, citation counting, and a journal’s average citations per article—were failing to keep up. “With altmetrics, we can crowdsource peer review,” they proposed. “Instead of waiting months for two opinions, an article’s impact might be assessed by thousands of conversations and bookmarks in a week.”

Making Metrics Meaningful Regular readers may know that I can get cranky at times about our passion for demonstrating value and productivity in quantitative ways that encourage publishing for the sake of publishing, leaving little time for reflection or pursuit of ideas that won’t quickly provide a line for the CV. So I was a little skeptical when I sat down to read a new book, Meaningful Metrics: A 21st- Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact published by ACRL.

*Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature [Preprint] (scan article) The website Sci-Hub provides access to scholarly literature via full text PDF downloads. The site enables users to access articles that would otherwise be paywalled. Since its creation in 2011, Sci-Hub has grown rapidly in popularity. However, until now, the extent of Sci-Hub's coverage was unclear. As of March 2017, we find that Sci-Hub's database contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals.

New Grads, Meet New Metrics: Why Early Career Librarians Should Care About Altmetrics & Research Impact In BriefHow do academic librarians measure their impact on the field of LIS, particularly in light of eventual career goals related to reappointment, promotion, or tenure? The ambiguity surrounding how to define and measure impact is arguably one of the biggest frustrations that new librarians face, especially if they are interested in producing scholarship outside of traditional publication models. To help address this problem, we seek to introduce early career librarians and other readers to altmetrics, a relatively new concept within the academic landscape that considers web-based methods of sharing and analyzing scholarly information. By Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt Introduction For new LIS graduates with an eye toward higher education, landing that first job in an academic library is often the first and foremost priority.

Wayfinding the Web: Applying Critical Information Literacy to a Google Instruction Session Fake news and information credibility became hot topics in late 2016. However, even before the U.S. presidential election cycle, librarians at the Yale Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI) started to adapt Google workshops to address the changing online credibility environment. We have taught workshops on effective Google searching since 2012, developing the series because we observed that many researchers in the sciences and social sciences “satisficed” their information and research inquiries using Google and Google Scholar.

Instruction ACT UP: Evaluating Sources and Pushing Against Privilege Dawn Stahura from Salem State University Presented on April 7, 2020 Inclusive Information Literacy, #InclusiveInfoLit: Resources from the Twitter Chats A bibliography suggested by #InclusiveInfoLIt attendees. A Work in Process: Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, April 28, 2017. This document is a revision of the 2007 ACRL Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators. Authored by the Standards and Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Revision Task Force. Members: Dawn Amsberry, Penn State, Member Candice Benjes-Small, Radford University, Member Sara Harrington, Ohio University, Co-chair Sara Miller, Michigan State University, Member and Instruction Section Executive Committee Liaison Courtney Mlinar, Austin Community College, Member Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson, West Virginia University, Co-chair Charge and History