Geospatial data. Even if you're not sure what it is you've used it every time you've viewed your house on Google Earth, used GPS in your car (lucky you!), read a neighborhood crime report, or looked at the distribution of Monarch butterfly ha… more »

The Library Applications & Publishing Group (LAP) of the Library Systems Office (basically the software side of LSO) had a discussion on new directions.  Here are some of the highlights: Discussed the section of the digital services frameworkFelt th… more »

How might we learn more about undergraduate student needs for the next 5-10 years, parallel to our interest in faculty and graduate student behaviors?  Kathleen Gallagher, Pat Maughan, and Jennifer Dorner created an online survey for our library student… more »

Over the winter break ENVI's entire professional staff participated in four 3-hour sessions exploring Web 2.0 technologies in the context of the Environmental Design Library. Using our laptop and projecting on the library wall, individual staff membe… more »

New Directions in Collections - Results of a Recent Collections Council Discussion (including members of the Scholarly Communications Advisory Group and E-Books Advisory Group)Getting staff buy-in. Would be good to see internal Library annual reports th… more »

New Directions/Technical Services meeting, February 5, 2008 Major points from the breakout sessions:UC-wide fast, transparent searching through cataloging, acquisitions and financial records; UC-wide cooperative cataloging based on languages; UC-wide sta… more »

The New Directions Coordinating Committee sponsored two opportunities for Science Libraries staff to discuss the New Directions theme of new roles and opportunities for science libraries' staff. These small group discussions, led by Susan Koskinen, K… more »

The Social Sciences Council, a subject-focused group organized to discuss/advice on library issues related to collections & services in the social sciences, discussed New Directions at its Jan. 17th meeting. Milt Ternberg, a member of the New Dire… more »

Arts & Humanities Council discussed New Directions at its meeting on January 17. From the minutes:Since Google and other large-scale digitization projects are excluding much of the complex, multi-format early research materials scholars need, we shou… more »

This recent article in Wired made me think about the New Directions project, and specifically about how we might rethink some of our paradigms. Essentially, the article talks about how Apple got into the cell phone business and turned it upside down.… more »

A while back, Mia Jaeggli submitted an excellent post about tag clouds for the blog. It inspired me to run the full text of our blog through TagCrowd to see what words appear most frequently. You can view the results (minus common words) as a text clou… more »

twitter: my cat woke me at 4am this morning. Out of the just-awake brew of dream fragments jostling against "what day is it?" arose the thought "open access is inevitable." Weird but true. ....here are the 6 points that tumbled outele… more »