Study found that older people liked to engage with both paper and digital resources, finding that each has its advantages. Recommended 'simple, app-free solutions' to connect paper and digital. Also recommended using range of accessible formats including videos and images to cater for different learning styles. You can read the full text without a password
Just for interest. Article looked at rate of incorrect automatic indexing in PubMed (7.9% for term 'malus' - apple tree) and reasons for incorrect indexing (often due to similes, metaphors and idioms)
No real learning from this (apart from a bit on systematic reviews) but I find it really interesting to see how other library people spend their days. Cats are included.
The author applied learning from this session with 'a group of Trainee Nursing Associates. I kicked it off by asking the group which aspects they would find it most useful to focus on, and adjusted my planned timings and content around that.'
Study found that young people tend to use social media or search engines to find information online. Things that engaged them more included inclusive language, user friendly design, credible content and interactivity.
Magasin K 16 sept -25. --Social oro, det vill säga grupper eller personer som visar respektlöshet mot bibliotekets regler och andra besökare, bråk eller personer som är onyktra eller aggressiva, har ökat på folkbiblioteken, precis som DIK:s tidigare rapporter också visar. Enligt rapporten har 95 procent av bibliotekarierna upplevt social oro de senaste två åren. Nästan var tredje svarar att det förekommer dagligen eller flera gånger i veckan. Även andelen som upplevt skadegörelse har ökat och ligger nu på 82 procent. ---- I rapporten vittnar respondenterna om olika former av skadegörelse, klotter och nedskräpning, och en hel del skriver om misstänkt eller bekräftad droghandel. En skillnad mot DIK:s tidigare undersökningar är att flera skriver om misstänkt gängrekrytering på biblioteken.
En del samhällsservice ingår i bibliotekets uppdrag kring delaktighet och informationsteknik. Men respondenterna i rapporten vittnar om att allt mer arbetstid får läggas på att bistå besökare med olika typer av samhällsservice, som till exempel fylla i blanketter, översätta myndighetsbeslut och hjälpa till med bank-id. 67 procent svarar att det här blivit vanligare de senaste fem åren när banker, myndigheter och andra samhällsaktörer minskat sin lokala närvaro.
22 aug 2025 Magasin K - BTS- Titlar till salu
Bli bibliotekarie på åtta veckor! Utbildningsföretaget Academy online lockar med snabbkurser till flera yrken som vanligtvis kräver flera års högskolestudier. När vi kontaktar företaget för att ställa frågor om just bibliotekarieutbildningen plockar företaget raskt bort länken till utbildningen och avböjer intervju. Läs mer i veckans nyhetsbrev där vi också skriver om inkluderande kommunikation, stängda museet som hittat ny plats och ökningen av skolbibliotekarieannonser.
scientific communication support network [shadow library?]
Open communication has always been a cornerstone of science. However, in the past 50 years it has been largely obstructed by high prices that prevent free flow of information and exchange of ideas, effectively blocking and preventing new groundbreaking discoveries in science and medicine.
Summarises 'key insights and practical ways library and knowledge services can engage with' the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Blogpost from Mid Cheshire Hospitals, created using Copilot.
A. Oberländer, and T. Reimer (Eds.) MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Basel, (2019)English; Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution.The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders. In a world where all research is open, the role of the library is shifting from licensing and disseminating to facilitating and supporting the publishing process itself.This requires a fundamental shift in terms of structures, tasks, and skills. It also changes the idea of a library’s collection. Under the subscription model, contemporary collections largely equal content bought from publishers. Under an open model, the collection is more likely to be the content created by the users of the library (researchers, staff, students, etc.), content that is now curated by the library.Instead of selecting external content, libraries have to understand the content created by their own users and help them to make it publicly available—be it through a local repository, payment of article processing charges, or through advice and guidance. Arguably, this is an overly simplified model that leaves aside special collections and other areas. Even so, it highlights the changes that research libraries are undergoing, changes that are likely to accelerate as a result of initiatives such as Plan S.This Special Issue investigates some of the changes in today’s library services that relate to open access.