There is knowledge that comes from a book, article or online tutorial — these are resources we turn to time and again. Then there is knowledge that comes from a lively group of peers interacting on a regular and often instantaneous basis to help solve problems. This knowledge is, as the advertisement goes, priceless!....Read more

Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of meeting Jason Kramer, the executive director for the New York State Higher Education Initiative, an association of the state's public and private academic and research libraries. Jason brings a skillset not often taught in library school and a practical perspective on growing the impact and influence of libraries in today’s society. — Chrysanne Lowe, Vice President, Global Customer Marketing, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA  ....Read more

Like our librarian readers around the world, Library Connect has become a bit more "social" as of late. If you haven't done so yet, you can join our online community in a variety of ways and let us - and other fellow information professionals - know what successes you've had or challenges you'd like help solving in your library.....Read more

Elsevier today is synonymous with leading edge science, technology and medical publications. This quest for quality recalls the original Elzevier publishing house, which operated from 1580 to 1712. The House of Elzevier published groundbreaking work from contemporary scholars including Descartes, Huygens and Galileo.....Read more

Librarians are credited with helping their various user communities work smarter, not harder. Arguably one of the groups that could benefit the most from that guidance is the early career researcher who faces incredible competition, especially for job and funding opportunities.....Read more

In a national gathering, more than 70 librarians and National Agency for Innovation and Research (ANII) representatives met to gain new insights into Uruguay's current digital libraries landscape and its vision for the future. With the support of ANII, Elsevier hosted "Digital Libraries: Tendencies and Perspectives," a Library Connect event, in Montevideo on September 1.....Read more

Nine of the 11 libraries of the State University of Haiti in Port-au-Prince were seriously damaged during the January 12, 2011 earthquake and remain inaccessible.....Read more

Do you and your library users access journals or articles online? Most likely the individual and citable article is the desired end product. In 2010, Elsevier introduced article-based publishing to get the final article with full citation details (volume, issue, page range) into circulation an average of seven weeks quicker.....Read more

Before getting my MLS, I studied religion. I was interested in origin stories, and in understanding how people built their worlds and interacted with them via religion. In teaching, critical thinking was always the lesson. Understanding the fabric we are embedded in is the key to moving forward. There are many parallels between how I approached the study of religion and how I approach learning in libraries.....Read more

In the June issue of the Library Connect Newsletter, we invited librarians and information professionals to participate in the Apps for Library Idea Challenge 2011. We received 41 app ideas from 14 countries. The international competition invited participants to propose solutions to the challenges that they and their users face in the search and discovery process. The winners, announced in November at the 2011 Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC, are librarians Ke Khoon Low, National University of Singapore, and Andrea Szwajcer, University of Manitoba, Canada.....Read more

The University of Warwick is one of the UK's leading universities, ranked seventh overall in the last national assessment of researchers. The university library has been developing innovative ways to meet the needs of this community of researchers, as well as the needs of its students and teaching faculty. My role as the Academic Services Development Manager at the University of Warwick Library, UK, was created in October 2009. It was intended to:....Read more

A recent Australian study identified the skills and knowledge that library and information professionals require in the Web 2.0 world. Funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, the study involved 81 librarians participating in a series of focus groups. The study concluded that a so-called "Librarian 2.0" needs a complex mix of transferable skills, including teamwork, communication, business skills, lifelong learning and personal traits such as creativity, flexibility, adaptability and persistence.....Read more

What service allows you to select from thousands of STM journal titles and tick the ones you’re interested in, so you can receive from one source freely available tables of contents from your favorite journals? The answer is ticTOCs — Journal Tables of Contents Service, which provides TOCs from about half the currently published STM journals. By providing access to the most recent TOCs of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers, including Elsevier, ticTOCs helps users stay current with the most recent issues of journals covering a wide range of subjects.....Read more

Students pursuing master’s degrees in library science often assume they need their new degrees in hand to write for publication, but much the opposite is true. Every way we involve ourselves in the profession while in school helps increase our opportunities, our career prospects, and our name recognition. Just as it is counterproductive to wait until you finish school to join professional organizations, become active on committees, or put in time working in a library, waiting to write will not help you achieve your goals.....Read more