Posts in Libraries
New report provides insight into the library’s evolving role in student success

A new Technology from Sage report sheds light on challenges in the librarian-patron relationship, including the need for greater digital literacy and more tailored support for students, and recommends methods to support the student experience. “The Knowledge Gap Between Librarians and Students: Contrasting Librarian and Student Perspectives on the Undergraduate Workflow” report is the second in the Librarian Futures series.

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Technology from SAGE acquires reading, authoring, and collaboration tool Sciwheel

Technology from SAGE, a division of SAGE Publishing, has acquired Sciwheel, an award-winning tool providing library patrons with an easy way to discover, read, annotate, write, and share research. Founded by Vitek Tracz, the entrepreneur behind the Current Opinion journals, Current Drugs, F1000 and BioMed Central, Sciwheel was created to go beyond traditional reference management by assisting students and researchers throughout the entire writing process. Sciwheel will be integrated with Technology from SAGE’s Lean Library, to create a comprehensive academic workflow tool.

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Lean Library Partners with Skilltype to Create Librarian Futures Community and Support Librarian Learning

Lean Library, a ‘Technology from SAGE’ company, is pleased to announce its partnership with Skilltype, a global training platform for librarians. Lean Library will utilize Skilltype’s innovative platform to curate and showcase its product training, events and webinars, providing librarians with recognition for the skills and knowledge acquired, whilst also enabling greater networking amongst Lean Library’s library partners. Lean Library and Skilltype will also develop a new community for Skilltype members, Librarian Futures, to share and solicit debate and ideas about the evolving role of the librarian. This will build on Lean Library’s 2021 global consultation, which culminated in its Librarian Futures report.

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Lean Library’s “Librarian Futures” Report Reveals Opportunities for New Era of Patron-Centered Library Services

Lean Library, a ‘Technology from SAGE’ company, today releases “Librarian Futures,” a white paper based on a large-scale survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons that examines librarian-patron workflows and relationships. The report finds that while patrons are unaware of the full extent of librarian support (with 77% beginning research discovery outside of the library), more than 80% greatly appreciate librarians and would want the library more deeply embedded in their natural workflows.

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Lean Library Partners with TDNet to bring TDNet Discover directly into the Patron Workflow

Lean Library, a browser extension from SAGE Publishing that delivers library services into the patron’s workflow, is partnering with TDNet, provider of TDNet Discover, a unified library discovery and content management solution. Together, Lean Library and TDNet will provide libraries with the ability to deliver their library search results to patrons ‘in their workflow’ on academic resources and websites such as Google and Wikipedia.

The partnership will include a direct integration with TDNet Discover to make library search available to users through the Lean Library browser extension, showing relevant search returns from their library wherever they start their search. For example, when a patron is using Google, Google Scholar, publisher sites, or Wikipedia, the extension will also surface relevant results from their library.

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