The digital age has provided students with access to a vast variety of free online resources, alongside their library's offerings, making the way they find and use reference resources more complex than ever before. Previous research and discussions around scholarly reference largely focus on how resources specifically support students when they are conducting research. Oxford University Press took a wider perspective, exploring how students more generally seek contextual information.
Need help with your analytics? Join in as our expert panelists offer tips on harnessing the power of data to increase efficiency and provide valuable programming to your community. These insights will help you elevate your library’s impact by providing actionable recommendations on staffing, process improvements, and patron programming from data you already have.
Learn what went into making this year’s winner, Madison County Libraries, NC, stand out from its peers, and garner top honors from the annual award program. We'll cover Madison’s innovative offerings, along with those of finalist libraries from Cazenovia, NY, and Patagonia, AZ.
Ensuring that content is discoverable to end users is one of the biggest challenges facing institutions and libraries. Partnering with leading libraries and archives around the world, Adam Matthew Digital has over 25 years of editorial and development experience in creating award-winning digital primary source collections for teaching and research across the social sciences and humanities. Join this webinar to learn more!
Mystery lovers, wait no more! Join Library Journal for this free one-hour webcast, and get a sneak preview of the latest titles in this pulse-pounding genre. You’ll hear from HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Severn House, all sure to tease terrific new books to match up with your mystery fans.
From manga to memoir, graphic novels offer engaging and diverse stories for readers of all ages. Join moderator Tammy Ivins along with a panel of insiders who will share some of the hottest graphic novels hitting the shelves this season. You'll hear all about recent and upcoming releases from Diamond Book Distributors, Lion Forge, Papercutz, Scholastic Press and VIZ Media.
The way we learn has changed in the past 10 years with a larger focus on digital. Join us on this free webinar where we discuss how a library, equipped with educational resources for today’s learner, can improve the quality of life for the whole community.
For libraries that wish to offer users an in-app mobile checkout experience while browsing the physical library shelves, the cloudLibrary checkout module is now available for quick and easy borrow transactions. Libraries can now offer self-service users a fast and simple mobile checkout experience of physical titles right from their device.
Need ideas on how to engage patrons of all backgrounds? Join in as two library systems share how they successfully serve members of their communities for whom English is a second language with unique programming and outreach services.
Is your library looking for a new way to boost early literacy and get young patrons reading? Join this webcast to hear from the creators of the Starling Early-Learning Wearable and two libraries that are lending the Starlings to their communities and hosting early literacy programs around this technology.
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