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Do you have an announcement, a suggestion for an article, a job opening or a prediction on the library industry? Use our “Submit Content” button at the top of the screen and send us a message! We’d love to hear from you.See our interview with Mark Kendall regarding the B&T/YBP buyout of Blackwell! Both Sides Angle for Victory In Key E-Reserve Copyright Case" http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6722663.html "In a significant development...both sides in a contentious legal battle over electronic course reserves used in an academic library at Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, have asked the court for summary judgment in their favor." This was posted by Bernie Sloan on liblicense March 11. NACS Media Solutions (NMS), a subsidiary of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) and On Demand Books LLC (ODB), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), have entered into a joint agreement whereby NMS will market the EBM to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content for distribution throughout the worldwide network of EBMs. Essentially an “ATM for books,” the EBM prints, binds, and trims a single-copy paperback book in a few minutes. These books have full-color covers and are virtually indistinguishable from publishers’ editions. The EBM uses an environmentally friendly technology since it eliminates the pulping of unwanted books, shipping, and supply-chain inefficiencies. Get ready bookworms! The Friends of the Newark Public Library will kick off its annual book sale on Saturday, April 17 in Centennial Hall of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street. The sale is a treasure trove for bargain hunters and book lovers, with thousands of paperbacks, hard covers, magazines, CDs and DVDs from which to choose. Many of the items start at less than $1 each. All proceeds go to the Friends of the Newark Public Library, which in turn uses the funds to assist the Library with its needs. Money from last year’s book sale was used to fund career and educational test preparation books, such as resume books,SAT prep and GED prep, among others. There are four days to catch the book sale:
For information about the sale, please call the Friends at 973-733-7793 or log on to www.friends.npl.org. Participants are invited to register for a spectacular summer program to Prague entitled, “Libraries and Librarianship in the Czech Republic” that will be offered May 23 to June 5, 2010. There are just a couple of spaces left for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science’s 2010 summer international program. Those participating will see the libraries and facilities at central Europe’s oldest university, Charles University, which was founded in 1348. The lectures provide a broad overview of libraries across the Czech Republic and will be supplemented with tours of libraries and other cultural institutions in Prague and other parts of the Bohemian countryside. The series of presentations is supplemented by:
Registration is open to anyone interested in being part of the seminar in Prague. The seminar can either be taken for academic credit or on a non-credit basis. REGISTER SOON! The registration process is first-come, first-served, so act quickly to reserve your spot! For more details and to register, visit the Prague international programs page at: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/prague.html From a press release issued by ProQuest on March 8, 2010: The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English daily newspaper, will join ProQuest Historical Newspapers™, expanding the international content in this acclaimed archive. ProQuest announced at the International Federation of Library Association’s International Newspaper Conference in New Delhi that it will enable digital access to content published from 1838 to 2001 at its mid-year launch, with continually growing coverage. Timing coincides with migration to ProQuest’s new unified platform, allowing The Times of India’s content to be cross-searched and integrated within a library’s entire ProQuest collection. The Times of India will join other seminal papers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in the world’s largest digital newspaper archive, adding coverage of historic world news from a unique perspective. Founded in 1838 to serve the British residents of West India, The Times of India now circulates more than four million copies, covering almost eight million readers. Librarians and historians value its full coverage of such topics as the British Raj, Gandhi, Independence and Partition. As part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers, it provides exceptional depth to the study of colonial and post-colonial times, class and gender issues, religion, as well as international economics, international relations and culture influence research. For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent company website, www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com. The open access journal, Collaborative Librarianship, (eISSN: 1943-7528) has published the first issue of Volume 2 featuring articles, interviews, reviews and news reports (updated several times per week). See: www.collaborativelibrarianship.org. Collaborative Librarianship – Call for Papers The Fall 2010 issue of Collaborative Librarianship will focus on the role consortia play in library collaboration. Consortia and cooperatives are pushing the threshold with cooperative purchases, integrated library systems, institutional repositories, collection development plans, and delivery services. Articles related to any of these topics or other consortial innovations are especially welcomed. The journal also welcomes articles, reports, reviews, and news items that pertain to any aspect of the nature, methodology, promotion, practice and concerns related to library collaboration. CL also welcomes reader comments and responses to items published in the journal. Scholarly articles will undergo peer review. Articles, reports and other items not peer reviewed could be published in other sections of the journal. Author submissions should be made through the journal’s web site. All inquiries and other considerations for submissions could be made by contacting Ivan Gaetz igaetz@regis.edu, or by contacting any of the section editors listed on the journal’s website www.collaborativelibrarianship.org. Registration is now open for the New England Technical Services Librarians’ 2010 Spring Conference! Visit http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm for more details on the program and registration information. We look forward to seeing you there! NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2010: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move Thursday, April 15, 2010 Registration (closes April 2, 2010): Continue reading Registration is now open for the NETSL 2010 Spring Conference! Excerpt from LJ Academic News Wire, 3-2-2010: At Library Journal, we’re pleased, and relieved, at the turn of events that has aligned us with a library company, Media Source, headed by CEO Randy Asmo. Soon we will move to new digs in New York City (location TBD), along with our sister publication School Library Journal, and will continue to be led by publisher Ron Shank. We join two prestigious and long-established entities in the library field, The Horn Book, which has reviewed the high end of children’s book output since 1924, and Junior Library Guild, less familiar to LJ but not to our SLJ colleagues, a book-subscription program that has been supplying school and public libraries with hand-selected titles, many of which have gone on to be award winners, since 1929. Both companies have prospered under Media Sources’s new management. Read the article online at http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6720991.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=17252211 In partnership with SUNY Binghamton’s Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, Alexander Street today announced that one of their most popular online resources, Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, will be freely accessible for the month of March so that all librarians, students, instructors, and scholars can explore the site’s rich collection of primary materials and teaching tools without passwords or fees. The URL is http://wass.alexanderstreet.com Named a Best Reference Database of the year by Library Journal and an Outstanding Academic Title for the year by CHOICE Academic Reviews, Women and Social Movements has garnered numerous awards and wide recognition, and is one of the most heavily visited women’s studies sites online. Ordinarily accessible only to faculty and students at subscribing colleges and universities, the collection includes primary materials such as diaries, letters, photographs, and pamphlets and makes them cross-searchable together with scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and other important reference and secondary materials in what is the most comprehensive documentation of women’s activism in public life to date. New content is added to the site semi-annually. To access Women and Social Movements, visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com before April 1, 2010. HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a Fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks. The survey was conducted as part of HighWire’s ongoing exploration of the fast-growing scholarly ebook market. The results and accompanying analysis draw together the input of 138 librarians from 13 countries. The responses underscore the significant growth librarians expect in ebook acquisitions and point to their current preferences and possible trends in this evolving area. The survey data was analyzed by Michael Newman, Stanford University’s Head Biology Librarian, and the report presents his perspective on what his librarian colleagues had to say about ebooks. The report espouses some familiar and consistent themes:
Continue reading HighWire Presents Findings from eBooks Librarian Survey The winners of an iPod Shuffle were drawn after the survey closed. The two winners are Joanne Romano, licensing and serials librarian, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX, and Dung-Lan Chen, bibliographic services/acquisitions librarian, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Watch for the survey results to be reported in the April print 2010 ATG issue! OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. We are currently seeking candidates for the position of Manager, Publisher Relations. NOTE: The location of the position is to be determined. We are seeking qualified candidates from North America, U.K., Netherlands and Germany. Continue reading Manager, Publisher Relations job opportunity with OCLC From a press release issued by Nature Publishing Group on Mach 4, 2010: Nature Communications today publishes its Editorial Advisory Panel, of over 40 academic experts, on the journal website at www.nature.com/ncomms/eap. A new online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Nature Communications will launch in April 2010. The panel reflects Nature Communications broad scope, with acknowledged experts in subjects ranging from astrophysics to oceanography and from organic chemistry to palaeontology. International representation is provided by members from Australia, Canada, continental Europe, Japan, UK, and the USA. Further Advisory Panel members will be recruited to ensure the widest possible subject and geographic representation. Invited by Nature Communications Chief Editor, Lesley Anson, the Advisory Panel will serve for two years in the first instance. Like all Nature titles, Nature Communications has a team of independent in-house editors who are responsible for editorial decisions. If a paper’s importance within the field is unclear, a Nature Communications editor may request advice from a member of the Advisory Panel in deciding whether to review it. This will ensure the journal reflects current thinking in the communities it is aiming to serve, while offering rapid decision-making. Nature Communications is editorially independent and all decisions about the publication of manuscripts will be made by the internal editorial team and Chief Editor. Early response to Nature Communications has been positive. The journal has received almost 400 submissions covering a broad range of subjects, and a number of papers have now been accepted for publication in April 2010. Contact: The 19th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Sciences, will be held April 15, 2010 at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The 2010 conference theme is “New Tricks for Old Dogs: Serials Control and Access.” For details, see http://nccuslis.org/conted/conted.php. Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Publishers to preserve its entire collection of 52 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Akadémiai Kiadó furthers its preservation strategy, which includes participation in JSTOR since 2003 on behalf of three journals, and ensures that its e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Akadémiai Kiadó is Hungary’s most important publisher of scientific and academic books and journals as well as the publisher of a wide variety of dictionaries in many languages. Its activity covers every major field of science and scholarship, and a major part of its output appears in foreign languages, mainly in English. As part of the agreement, Akadémiai Kiadó will make an annual financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. |
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