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From the First Issue: We are launching this series in an effort to increase and improve communication with you, our valued subscribers. You can expect substantive business updates (content changes, renewal rates, terms modifications, pricing, etc.), new features on our website, event information and recaps, and information regarding any new initiatives being undertaken. We hope […]
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology October/November 2011 Vol. 38. No. 1 From the Table of Contents: Special Section: Libraries, Librarians and Mobile Services Libraries, Librarians and Mobile Services by Lisa Carlucci Thomas, guest editor of special section Full Text: HTML | PDF The Mobile Future of Place-Based Digital Collections by […]
American Libraries Launches E-Content Blog
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Open Access, School Libraries
|Via No Shelf Required, TeleRead, and ALA: Keeping up with the many varieties of digital content—and how libraries can offer them to their patrons—just got easier. American Libraries has launched an “E-Content” blog (http://americanlibraries.org/e-content) that provides information on e-books, e-readers, e-journals, databases, digital libraries, digital repositories, and other e-content issues. The blog complements the new […]
Final Report: “Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability”
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Podcasts, Publishing
|More news from Ithaka S+R. From a News Release and Summary: Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, released today “Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability,” a report that reviews the impact of tumultuous times on the business models of 12 digital projects first profiled by S+R […]
Libraries can get more information about implementing the campaign locally at get.geekthelibrary.org. From the Announcement: OCLC’s Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, has received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The supplementary $726,000 provides ongoing campaign materials and […]
British Library Welcomes Europe’s National Librarians Support of Open Data Licensing
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From the BL: The British Library welcomes the announcement made by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) to support the open licensing of their data (28 September 2011). This will mean that datasets describing millions of books and texts published in Europe will become increasingly accessible for anyone to re-use for whatever purpose their […]
From the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Washington Blawg: AALL is pleased to announce the launch of a new Legislative Action Center. Our new Action Center allows you to easily send messages to your Members of Congress, look up information about your elected representatives, and share our alerts with friends and colleagues. Please use […]
Digital Public Library of America “Beta Sprint” Review Panel Announces Results
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a DPLA Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee* has invited the creators of the following submissions to the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meetingtaking place on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC: Digital […]
Cataloging: SkyRiver Announces Six New Academic Library Customers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Resources
|From SkyRiver: Recent additions to the SkyRiver customer base include Alma College (MI), Cameron University (OK), Rhode Island College (RI), San Francisco State University (CA), Utah State University (UT), as well as ARL member, the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University (OH). Read the Complete Announcement
Video Presentation: Library Renewal How?: An Open Discussion of Electronic Content Access and the Future of Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Patrons and Users
|Here’s Michael Porter’s (aka @libraryman) presentation at Electronic Resources and Libraries. The presentation took place in early April and was uploaded on Vimeo the other day. Direct to Video (Runs 47 minutes) Porter is the President of Library Renewal. Related Materials Here are the Organization’s Core Beliefs: We believe that society is made significantly stronger […]