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The Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference is moving to Austin, Texas for 2010. ER&L Conferences provide a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services. Topics include managing, selecting, assessing and marketing e-resources as well as issues in digital rights and relationships in and out [...]

Springer has recently signed agreements to publish two journals in association with the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) – the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society and the new Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA). Both journals will be available in print and on Springer’s online platform www.springerlink.com .

The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society [...]

The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy

“The Right to Information Access”
Friday October 30 — 9am-3pm EDT

This event will be available via a live stream on Friday October 30 from 9am – 3pm EDT. To view the stream and obtain the exact schedule visit:

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html

Featuring:

*John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education, [...]

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced today that Tim Fusco has joined the organization as vice president for the academic market. Fusco joins Gale from LexisNexis Group where he worked for the past 11 years serving as vice president, publishing. He also worked for 12 years at ProQuest, formerly UMI, where he started in the [...]

At its 2009 Fall Membership Meeting held October 14-15, 2009, in Washington, DC, the membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted to invite the Libraries and Cultural Resources of the University of Calgary to join as the 124th member. Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the university is a member of the Canadian research-intensive [...]

Innovative announced today that its Encore Services team recently installed the product at ten academic and law libraries: Azusa Pacific University (CA); De La Salle University (Philippines); Douglas College (Canada); Marquette University and Marquette University Law School (WI); Saginaw Valley State University (MI); Siena College (NY); Southern Nazarene University (OK); University of Nebraska at Kearney; [...]

Join NISO for our November webinar Data, Data Everywhere featuring Migration and System Population Practices.

When: November 11, 2009 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

About the Webinar: The scope and scale of metadata repositories continues to grow, with increasingly heterogeneous data and complexity both on the ingest side (e.g., bibliographic metadata) and in inter- and intra-organizational [...]

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch (http://www.nature.com/opensearch). The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed.

As a demonstration of the new OpenSearch service NPG has developed nature.com search desktop widgets. Available for both [...]

The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR, joining a new effort to improve access to current scholarship for faculty, students, and librarians.

The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an agreement [...]

ProQuest, an information and technology company, will host the Michigan Chapter of the International Usability Professional’s Association’s (MIUPA) “Start a UX Movement at Your Company” workshop at its Ann Arbor, Michigan headquarters on Wednesday, October 28. The workshop brings together a group of interface designers, usability engineers, information architects, students, and other information professionals to [...]