Blog 2017

Many schools, universities, and libraries are devising policies for faculty, and students, outlining acceptable use guidelines for blogs and other social media.

In advance of the American Libraries Live streaming video broadcast "Discovery Services: The Future of Library Systems,” ProQuest’s Andrew Nagy, Senior Product Manager, Discovery Services, Serials Solutions chatted with AL Live's Dan Freeman.

Join library automation expert Marshall Breeding on August 1, at 2:00 p.m. EST, as he leads a live discussion on “Discovery Services: The Future of Library Systems.”

Digitization does offer excellent options for saving space and reformatting records but runs the risk of software, hardware and file format obsolescence. Digitizing documents from film is the best of both worlds by offering a solution to both microfilm's accessibility constraints and the unknown lifespan of digitization.

Your career is too important to rely on information that may or may not be valid and current. Check out the Safari Books Online database.

If you’ve probably spent some time thinking about how web-scale discovery impacts your information literacy teaching, these questions will be discussed at the 2nd UK Information Literacy & Summon Day coming up on the 25th of July, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

During the 75th anniversary ProQuest dinner, the ProQuest team socialized and shared some of the successful company milestones (blog post in Portuguese).

Many at our ALA breakfast program said that the presentation delivered by Megan Oakleaf, MLS, Phd., “The Importance of Using Data to Drive Innovation, Improve Services & Demonstrate Value,” was the best presentation they had ever seen! We didn’t want you to miss out, so here’s a re-cap of it for you, along with opportunities for you to learn more about the latest innovations from ProQuest.

Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has acted on requests to expand discovery of audio-visual content by working with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) to include the database Academia.

The newest professional forum within ALA, the Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT), had its first meeting on July 1 in Chicago at ALA Annual.