Library Theory

Update on the Library Privacy Pledge

A new era in libraries

Library Tech/Web

Pew report on social media in 2015

How to search in a scanned document

Gamification Infokit

Google Street View Imagery Now Available Using New Standalone App for Android and iOS

The five best social media management tools in 2015

Adobe Flash is dying

Collections / eResources

How to destroy special collections with social media

Publication trends in library reserves: a quantitative content analysis

Wellcome Library digitisation reaches halfway point with over 26,000 titles, nearly 8 million page images

ProQuest Makes 7,450 More Early European Books

British Library Rejects Taliban Trove Fearing Terror Laws

Academic Libraries

Talent management for academic libraries

NISO Publishes Primer on Research Data Management

The case for open tools in pedagogy

Learning Theories Map

Building virtually free subject area expertise through social media

Transparency project for teaching and learning

Standards applied to teaching are lower than standards applied to research

Free technology for teachers blog

Public Libraries

6Music celebrates libraries

CILIP called on to oppose ‘amateurisation’ of library service

Information Literacy

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Museums and Libraries – Spaces for Literacy

Cataloguing/Metadata

Metaliteracy in practice

On Being a Hub: Some Details behind Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America

Updated Statistics About the Dewey Decimal Classification

Misc

Only Known Manuscript of an Early Version of ‘Happy Birthday’ Song Discovered in a University of Louisville Library

Redosiris is currently reading The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class by Selina Todd