Library Theory

Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship

Report from the ALA Annual Conference 2015

Library For All breaks down barriers to knowledge in developing world

Managing Innovative Personalities for Successful Library Innovation

Library Tech/Web

Virtual shelf browse

New Media Consortium Releases NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition

The British Museum Prepares For Trial of Virtual Reality Headsets During VR Weekend

New Research on Storing and Preserving Digital Information Using DNA

40 social media statistics

Collections / eResources

Marx & Engels papers completely available online

Facing Islamic State Threat, Iraq Digitizes National Library

Princeton University Library Expanding Online Access to Digitized Islamic Manuscripts

Harvard Releases Version 2.0 of Waywiser Database of Historical Scientific Instruments

Audio Recognition App “Warblr” (Shazam For Birds) Launches in UK

University of Arkansas launches digital folk song collection

Academic Libraries

Archives Alive!: librarian-faculty collaboration and an alternative to the five-page paper

Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs

My life as a UX Librarian

MOOCs and libraries: a brewing collaboration

Public Libraries

Visiting libraries is by far the most popular activity in the UK

Building a Public Library Impact Data Hub: a Global Libraries “Data Atlas” for Storytelling, Strategy Development, and Collaboration

IMLS Publishes Report on Learning in Libraries

The amateurisation of the public library service

All Scottish children to be given automatic library membership

Information Literacy

Lost in Translation: Supporting Learners to Search Comprehensively Across Databases

Cataloguing/Metadata

DataQ, a New Collaborative Platform for Answering Research Data Questions in Academic Libraries Formally Launches

Using bibliometrics to demonstrate the value of library journal collections

New Grads, Meet New Metrics: Why Early Career Librarians Should Care About Altmetrics & Research Impact

Current State of Linked Data in Digital Libraries

Publishing

The once and future publishing library

Two Guides on Open Access Monograph Publishing

Misc

Old Maps Online launch mobile app

NASA makes two new Mars tools available

Redosiris is currently reading The Rise of Islamic State by Patrick Cockburn