Nominations are being accepted for the 2010 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Esther J. Piercy award. This award, a $1,500 grant and citation donated by YBP, Inc., recognizes contributions to library collections and technical services by a librarian with no more than 10 years of professional experience who has shown outstanding promise [...]
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Credo Reference has signed an agreement to launch an IGI Global Publisher Collection. Many of the most popular and highly acclaimed IGI Global information technology and computer science titles will be available soon through the innovative Credo Reference platform. This newest Publisher Collection from Credo will provide libraries with the option of purchasing access to the [...] The Springer journal Naturwissenschaften is publishing a special issue “Beyond the Origin: Charles Darwin and Modern Biology” to commemorate Darwin’s On the Origin of Species which was published 150 years ago in November 1859. Guest editor and author of the lead article is Dr. Ulrich Kutschera, professor of plant physiology and evolutionary biology at the [...] Today, ProQuest is introducing the Hall of Scholars, a website designed to showcase the recipients of Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards. Over the past 20 years, ProQuest/UMI has been the proud sponsor of Dissertation and Thesis Awards in the U.S. and Canada, which recognize academic excellence among all the dissertations and theses that are produced [...] Proposals are now being accepted for the ACRL 2011 National Conference to be held March 30 – April 2, 2011, in Philadelphia. Contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals are due May 10, 2010. Cyber Zed Shed presentation, poster session, roundtable discussion, and Virtual Conference Webcast proposals are due November 1, 2010. Submit proposals [...] For Thanksgiving, I gave myself a wonderful present! A broken right ankle, a visit to the hospital, an operation, and a long recuperation period! Will wonders never cease!? Seriously, the good news is that I can get to my computer. The bad news is that I didn’t eat much turkey (or maybe that’s good news [...] Was thrilled to read in the November 25, 2009, Inside Higher Education praise from Scott McLemee about our ATG November issue features “Is There Any Such Thing as an Out-of-Print Book Anymore?” See “The Cusp of Every Bibliomaniac’s Dream,” by Scott McLemee. And thanks to John Riley and Bob Holley who guest edited the issue [...] Routledge Journals and UNISA Press are pleased to announce a noteworthy addition to their successful co-publishing partnership as from 2009, Education as Change joined the list of participating journals. Education as Change is a significant addition to the publishing partnership, as it was founded at the University of Johannesburg in 1998 at a time when the [...] From Sylvia Miller, Director of “Publishing the Civil Rights Movement” at the University of North Carolina Press. The Charleston Conference – Top Ten Thoughts 4 Principles for E-book Discovery & Visibility Serials Solutions is pleased to announce the development of a new E-Books Metadata Normalization process for Serials Solutions® KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase. As a result of this new process, KnowledgeWorks is able to deliver the best possible access to eBooks through 360 services and OPACs. For the full text of this release, visit their website [...] ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 U.S. Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL). The agreement enables FEDLINK members to subscribe to the DL at a discounted price and to [...] Surviving in a Tough Economy: an Advocacy Institute Workshop Can libraries make it through the economic crisis? Yes, we can! Learn how some libraries can survive — and even thrive — during a tough economy. Hear success stories, get the latest tips, and learn how to better advocate for [...] Tom Clareson, senior consultant for new initiatives at LYRASIS, will co-lead Digital Futures Academy 2010, a 5-day training event to be held in Sydney, Australia, in February 2010 and in London, UK, in April 2010. Digital Futures focuses on the development, delivery, and preservation of digital resources from cultural heritage institutions. The event is aimed at [...] ProQuest has incorporated its patent-pending Deep Indexing technology, pioneered with the company’s popular Illustrata offerings, into selected natural science, technology, and engineering subject-oriented databases. Deep Indexing will surface data from more than seven million tables and figures found in over 5,500 academic journal articles. This innovation in indexing moves beyond traditional article-level indexing to help [...] The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announce the release of “A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement” http://www.arl.org/bm%7Edoc/guide_for_the_perplexed_part3_final.pdf The guide describes the major changes in the amended settlement agreement (ASA), submitted to the Court by Google, the Authors Guild, [...] |
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