Interesting reads

World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'

After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts.

The Difference between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism—and Why It Matters | Peer to Peer Review

Rick Anderson explains the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement and why it matters.



The Strange Affliction of 'Library Anxiety' and What Librarians Do to Help

Library anxiety is real. The phenomenon, which involves feeling intimidated, embarrassed, and overwhelmed by libraries and librarians. Find out what librarians to do help students overcome library anxiety.





2016 Horizon Report

The NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 13th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.





F1000Research Open for Science
The traditional anonymous pre-publication peer review of research articles can cause long delays before new results become visible. F1000Research uses an author-led process, publishing all scientific research within a few days. Open, invited peer review of articles is conducted after publication, focusing on scientific soundness rather than novelty or impact.

Sciblog
Sciblogs brings together the best science bloggers in the country on one website, creating a hub for scientific analysis and discussion and facilitating reader interaction.

The website is for scientists who want to reach out to a general audience to explain their science and how it relates to society. Some Sciblog contributors spend most of their time in the lab or buried in research. Others are authors or entrepreneurs. All of them know what they are talking about and have an interest in engaging in discussion on the big science-related issues facing society.

"This Kiss to the Whole World": Klimt and the Vienna Secession

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)—a collaboration between the libraries of The Frick Collection, Brooklyn Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art—has extensive holdings of materials relating to artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). To correspond with the citywide Vienna, City of Dreams program organized by Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2014, NYARC presents this exhibition of its Vienna Secession (Union of Austrian Artists) catalogs and other related materials for the period that Klimt, as a founding member, was involved. Notable exhibitions that took place during this time period include the fourteenth exhibition (1902), which was designed by Josef Hoffmann and centered around tributes to Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as the eighteenth exhibition (1903) devoted to Klimt's work and designed by Koloman Moser.

Why Libraries Are Everywhere in the Czech Republic

The country has a public library for every 1,971 people — 10 times the U.S. rate — and a population that still borrows and reads printed books. By HANA de GOEIJ.