Drinking From the Firehose: The Serial's Life Cycle: The Report of its Death has been greatly exaggerated

Opinion piece about the trend of renaming or reorganizing serials units within technical services departments in librarie

Fun With Facebook

Opinion piece about the joys and pitfalls of social networkin

Making beautiful music: The state of the art in mobile technology and how we can make the most of it in libraries

Mobile technology is in a great state of flux and competition and the bar keeps getting set higher. What models of service are leading the pack? Should libraries be providing mobile devices or rather, should libraries be providing content for any kind of device and leave the choice of device to our patrons? This session will explore the most recent trends so that attendees can get a sense of the marketplace and what might work best in their own context. Many libraries are experimenting with handheld readers such as Kindle, Nook and iPads, and at the same time testing out various platforms to deliver e-content (such as Overdrive and 3-M Cloud Library)

Literary Homecoming as Collaboration: Eastern North Carolina Libraries Connect with the Creative Sector

This article describes an academic library’s experience developing and sustaining a literary festival as a collaborative effort. The Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming (ENCLH) is a year-long program of events that celebrates the culture and literature of North Carolina. With activities in 6 counties located in the mid-coastal region of North Carolina, the program provides a rich opportunity for people of this area to learn about and meet North Carolina artists. In the past the program was restricted to artists with connections to Eastern North Carolina, but the program is expanding its coverage in 2011. The program theme for 2011 will focus on the impact of environmental literature on social change. This event has been a successful collaboration between a number of cultural institutions, with Joyner Library at East Carolina University serving as the lead. Federal, state and private grant funding has been secured for several years. Key players in the mix include the editor and staff of the North Carolina Literary Review, along with staff from the local public library and members of the ECU faculty as well as librarians from other regional schools

Weeding One STEPP at a Time

Joyner Library recently had to make space for a new campus partner. To do so we focused our activity on print journals. We created a set of rules guiding our deselection, storage, and retention decisions

The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Serials Librarian on Aug. 18, 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2017.1321350In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal subscriptions in the U.S. market to an entirely Article Processing Charge (APCs) business model, known also as “Gold Open Access.� We contacted MacKenzie Smith, one of the principal investigators, in order to get her reflections on the process of gathering the data, and to discuss some implications of the findings. The interview suggests that the “Pay It Forward� model could be successful over time, following a necessarily complex transition period