[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group has published Library Use of LibGuides, ISBN 978-157440-257-5

Primary Research Group has published Library Use of LibGuides, ISBN 978-157440-257-5.

The study explores how many LibGuides libraries are making, the rate of growth in Lib Guide creation, and how extensively LibGuides are used. The report also covers the estimated time it takes to create a LibGuide and its impact on library productivity. The study furnishes insights on the number of librarians in an organization who use LibGuides, the support that they receive, and the marketing of LibGuides to faculty and students, among many other issues. The study also points out the most admired LibGuides, the most used, and gives hard data on the number of LibGuides from institutions other than their own that libraries are using. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: how many libraries are using LibGuides as their library website? What are library plans for LibGuides in the future? Have libraries considered alternatives to LibGuides? How satisfied are libraries with LibGuides? What kinds of LibGuides are libraries developing and how are they encour!
aging students and faculty to use them?

Just a few of the study���s main findings are that:
��� The growth rate over the past year in the stock of LibGuides for the private colleges in the sample was an astounding 63%.
��� College libraries with a budget in excess of $3 million maintained a mean of 109 LibGuides.
��� 42.11% of the libraries sampled have one or more individuals whose primary job it is to create LibGuides or other kinds of research guides.
��� Only 3.51% of the libraries sampled have measured or studied how much staff time it takes to develop a typical LibGuide.
��� 31.58% of the libraries offer courses, seminars, or otherwise provide formal training in use of LibGuides to library staff.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

[KMDG-L] REMINDER: Classification & Visualization, 24-25 October, The Hague

*Apologies for cross-posting*    --- INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ---  Classification and  Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" International UDC Seminar 2013 -  will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague    Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.    The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.    The conference programme features a series of eminent speakers: W. Boyd Rayward, Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Xia Lin, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst, Rebecca Green, Claudio Gnoli etc.    To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013    Registration closes on 15 October 2013:  EUR220 regular fee, students EUR180    The registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book (published by Ergon)  Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org    We look forward to seeing you in October.    --------------------------------------------------  

[KMDG-L] INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION: Classification & Visualization, The Hague, 24-25 October 2013

*Apologies for cross-posting*

  === INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ===

International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague

Conference website:  http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.

The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

The conference will be opened by Prof. W. Boyd Rayward, well-known historian of the international organization of knowledge and the history of documentation and information science. His keynote address will set the scene for discussions on models and metaphors of knowledge and information visualization that bridge historical and technological perspectives.

A series of eminent speakers will follow: Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Scott Weingart, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst etc.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013

Registration closes on 15 October 2013:
€220 regular fee, students €180

Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org

About the organizer: Classification & Visualization is the fourth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium).

We look forward to seeing you in October.

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