Welcome to the Library Campaign. We are an independent national organisation set up in 1984 to support Friends of Library groups and to campaign for improved services in publicly funded libraries.
How do libraries serve network people? How are library organization, services and technologies co-evolving with the behaviours of their users? This blog looks at library logistics, collaborative sourcing, the collective collection, and evolving metadata and bibliographic practices. It is also interested in how libraries support changing research and learning needs, and on how the curatorial traditions of archives, libraries and museums come together in the digital environment. These issues touch on broader Web 2.0 questions, and on organizational responses.
This blog is hosted by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
The LITA blog features original content by LITA members on technologies and trends relevant to librarians. Our writers represent a variety of perspectives, from library students to public, academic, and special librarians.
The blog also delivers announcements about LITA programming, conferences, and other events, and serves as a place for LITA committees to share information back with the community if they so choose.
The National Library of Norway has embarked on an ambitious mission, that of digitizing all of its titles with the hope of achieving this by mid-2020. Such an endeavor will cover every book ever published in the country since, as per Norwegian law, all published material in all media should be deposited with the National Library of Norway. This will ensure everyone in Norway has access to the books at all times, which also includes those that come under the purview of copyright laws. Users will be able to download the books, though this applies only to those that are not copyrighted.
Project to develop a transferable model for e-library use in higher education and to provide dissemination and training in e-library use, and is supported by project funding through HEFCE
The Cataloger's Reference Shelf is based on 21 MARC manuals and other reference works published by The Library of Congress and frequently accessed by technical services staff. A must see for catalogers!