Conferences
"The iPRES series embraces a variety of topics in digital preservation - from strategy to implementation, and from international and regional initiatives to small organizations. Within this broad topic area, each conference defines a slightly different focus"
digital preservation
"... an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences."
data services
"... an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice."
digital curation
"... provided librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals with an opportunity to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects".
Communities
Canadian Linked Data Initiative Working Group
Presentations & Publications
Linked Library Data Interest Group Meeting - ALA Annual 2018
A series of online mini-conferences with different topics about digital libraries.
A not-for-profit organization to build "... the Canadian library and information community...".
Journals
LITA's open-access journal "...publishes material related to all aspects of information technology in all types of libraries..."
library automation digital libraries metadata technical standards digital preservation data curation emerging technologies open data Open Access
"...offer quality literature in our field in an open, independently produced journal".
Open Access
"...to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future".
Open Access
"...the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries...".
Open Access
"...an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for Library User Experience professionals published by Michigan Publishing".
Open Access
"...is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines".
Open Access
"...is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines".
Open Access
"...share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation, and debate".
Open Access
Past issues until 2015.
Open Access
"...an electronic, refereed journal of the Special Libraries Association’s (SLA) Education Division. It offers a forum for new and challenging ideas in education and library and information science. It also explores the effect of new technologies on the library profession and library and information curriculum."
Open Access
"...a fully refereed scholarly periodical that has been published quarterly by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) ... supports scholarly inquiry in library and information science (LIS) education...".
Open Access
"...scholarly articles on technical-service issues and trends for libraries, including bibliographic access and control, preservation, conservation, and reproduction of library materials...".
Subscription needed
"...Offers critical evaluations and assessments of information services technology and automation systems for libraries. Addresses current technology issues such as filtering software, metadata, enhanced assistive technologies, licensing agreements, and radio frequency identifiers. For library staff who plan, implement, and manage library technology...".
Subscription needed
"... promotes the exchange of ideas about libraries, librarianship, and information science among practitioners across all library sectors...".
Open Access
"...publishes all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles...all areas of academic research, including science, technology, humanities and the social sciences".
Open Access
"...an open access, peer-reviewed journal advancing the theory and practice of librarianship focusing on services related to data-driven research in science, technology, engineering, math, social sciences, medicine, and public health".
Open Access
Other Resources
"...a step-by-step guide to help you write an effective research paper".
Academic Writing
"Various guides aroun libraries and Higher Education".
Guides
Survey results report
Staff need digital skills to give students the best digital experience