With the design of new libraries increasingly emphasizing support for collaborative activity, librarians need to understand how and why their patrons are working together in library spaces. Howard Silver is the Associate Head & Biological Engineering Librarian at MIT. On Tuesday, February 27, 2007, he spoke at an event sponsored by the Simmons GSLIS Research…
Library crimes may seem like an odd beat for a newspaper reporter. But after a rash of thefts from New England libraries Hartford Courant journalist Kim Martineau found herself on the trail of notorious map thief E. Forbes Smiley. On Monday, February 26th, 2007 Martineau spoke at an event sponsored by the Simmons College Chapter…
Michael Stephens is an Instructor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and the former Special Projects Librarian at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, IN. He has presented at library conferences locally, nationally, and internationally on the adoption of technology in libraries, and is a contributing…
Nicole Hennig is the Web Manager and Usability Specialist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. In order to move new technologies into production more quickly, the MIT has created a “beta” program that allows staff to more easily experiment and deploy applications on a trial basis. One example is LibX, a toolbar for web…
Andr�s Riedlmayer is the director of the Documentation Centre of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard’s University�s Fine Arts Library. A specialist in the history and culture of the Balkans, he spent much of the past decade documenting the destruction of archives, libraries and other cultural heritage during the 1990s wars in…
