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  • Poor Man's Social Network: Consistently Trade Freshness For Scalability
    Xie, Zhiwu; Liu, Jinyang; Van de Sompel, Herbert; van Reenen, Johann; Jordan, Ramiro (USENIX Association, 2012-06)
    Typical social networking functionalities such as feed following are known to be hard to scale. Different from the popular approach that sacrifices consistency for scalability, in this paper we describe, implement, and ...
  • The Prevalence and Practices of Academic Library Journal Clubs
    Young, Philip; Vilelle, Luke (The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011-03-04)
    Increased mention of journal clubs in the library literature and the recent creation of clubs at the authors' institutions sparked curiosity about how widespread they are in academic libraries. An online survey announced ...
  • The Serials Crisis and Open Access: A White Paper for the Virginia Tech Commission on Research
    Young, Philip (2009-12-02)
    This white paper offers an introduction to open access as well as a look at its current development. The open access movement is an attempt to free scholarly communication from restrictions on access, control, and cost, ...
  • Social Media as Time Suck: The Myth of Efficiency
    Nardine, Jennifer (2012-07-25)
    A discussion of the pros and cons of using social media in academic libraries, and a case model of streamlining the process. I.e. Virginia Tech Libraries use Hootsuite as a social media manager, allowing a single librarian ...
  • A Survey of Batch Cataloging Practices and Problems
    Young, Philip (Technical Services Quarterly, 2011-12-01)
    Groups of bibliographic records are added to library catalogs with increasing frequency. Batch cataloging requires knowledge of bulk record transfer as well as current cataloging standards. While more efficient than ...
  • Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism
    Mathews, Brian (2012-04-03)
    This document is intended to inspire transformative thinking using insight into startup culture and innovation methodologies. It’s a collection of talking points intended to stir the entrepreneurial spirit in library leaders ...
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