Springer launched a free analytics tool providing visualizations for usage of Springer’s online products, called Springer Realtime. It shows keywords for recently downloaded articles, mapping of downloads, charts and article-level information.

What if there was something like this for your library’s downloads?

[Thanks, Martha!]

The January issue of ITAL (Information Technology and Libraries) had an interesting article on academic librarians learning to keep up with the changing pace of technology.

Here’s a Drexel proxied link to the article, and an ITALica blog post with the abstract.

Even though “emerging technologies” in libraries are somewhat different from the rest of the world, it’s important to be able to keep up with what the students are actually doing, and to understand the tools they use to complete their coursework.