Basically they tried to impose an immediate green OA mandate without the staffing or any real plan.

A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

Public library digital transformation

My personal reflections on what I've learned trying to make healthcare better across different sectors of the industry.

Poynter informs  that the most-read piece  ever published in the Washington Post's website is a visualization-driven story, the now famous...

The axiom to “do more with less” in university research libraries is increasingly untenable, as budgets continue to shrink and demand for novel services continues to rise. The impacts of such existential uncertainties are self-evident and widely discussed in the current literature—staff burnout, lowered morale and increased toxicity, weakened local collections, and limited capacity for ambitious and genuinely innovative work. Like many institutions, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries has found itself reinventing many of its services and initiatives to meet the increasingly technical needs of students and researchers in our campus community. New services and positions for research data services, GIS librarianship, discovery services, and digital scholarship are all popular and increasingly central to the information service mission of the Libraries. Like many more institutions, demand for such services often outstrips the Libraries’ operations and collections budgets, as well as labor capacity for project-driven initiatives and highly technical service requests.

According to ALA’s State of America’s Libraries 2018 report “in the past five years, more than 58% of all academic libraries have changed their reference staffing models, with the most popular chan…

WordPress has a brand new content editor called “Gutenberg” that is going to shape WordPress for years to come. In this article, Andy Bell explains why it’s a movement and not just a new editor.

When Rian Rietveld resigned from the WordPress accessibility team on October 9, I decided to track the fallout in an ongoing Twitter thread. The subsequent weeks and days proved to be wonderful insight into how a project can suffer when accessibility is not built in from the start. When subject…

The key is to attract, not try to overpower

Jane Caro: In this new ‘Age of Anxiety’, where the world’s future appears unprecedentedly bleak and volatile, historical parallels between our times and the Protestant Reformation can draw some comfort – and some alarm.

This post was authored by guest contributor Jill Severn, Head of Access and Outreach at the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Library   Innovation is a critical ingredient for p…