The economic impact of libraries
Our team is always trying to measure the economic impact of library services. It is notoriously difficult once you get beyond broad benefits and try to pin down the actual…
Future Thinking: Academic Libraries
Additional research on the subject of academic libraries - Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025
Future of Librarianship
The Taiga Forum developed a framework for the challenges that librarians will face in the future. The strategy developed by the group echo's our research i.e. the changing status of…
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What is the value of an ebook?
In "In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I)," a very important discussion has begun. Indeed, what is the value of an e-book? At ACA, we are…
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Kindle Lending Library – (e-book) Learning Environment
Amazon will transform 11,000 library environments with Overdrive. On April 20, 2011, Amazon and Kindle e-reader will work with libraries to provide downloadable e-books. The Kindle library lending feature will…
value of academic libraries
The Value of Academic Libraries is a subject we have been analyzing to support our academic clients. Our technique the Visual Scan, a qualitative assessment of the library environment, helps…
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ebooks and the library
We have been monitoring the discussion about ebooks and its impact on library space. NPRs' report about Harper Collins and their ebook restrictions illustrated that a transformation is taking place.…
The Economics of Ebooks
Readers are taking advantage of the rapid expansion of digital technology and starting to use digital books or e-books. The attached diagram illustrates the projected growth of digital books. Indeed,…
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Information Collaboratory
Our team helps craft the vision for the library through an analysis of patterns and trends, conducting visioning sessions, leading scenario planning workshops, developing business cases, and improving work and…
Digital Library Volenteers: New Library Services: Digital Repository Building
The National Library of Finland is a creative enterprise. They have a new library service to improve digital collections. The library started a project call Digitalkoot a mashup of digital…
