From the monthly archives: January 2010
Join NISO for a one-day forum on Discovery to Delivery: Creating a First-Class User Experience on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, GA. NISO educational forums are routinely praised for their excellent selection of speakers representing a diversity of viewpoints across the scholarly information community and the small size [...]
Read More... →Dr. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed dean of the School of Information and Library Sciences.
The University’s Board of Trustees today (Jan. 28) approved the appointment, effective April 1.
A Carolina faculty member since 1998, Marchionini heads the school’s Interaction Design Laboratory [...]
Read More... →From a press release issed by SkyRiver on Jan. 28, 2010:
The West Bloomfield Township Public Library in West Bloomfield, MI has completed the conversion from its legacy bibliographic service to being fully operational with SkyRiver cataloging in less than a month. West Bloomfield’s conversion is the quickest to date for a SkyRiver partner underscoring [...]
Read More... →The Health Sciences Library of the University of Colorado Denver seeks exceptional candidates for the position of Acquisitions Librarian.
Minimum starting salary $47,000 based on qualifications and experience; appointment is as non-tenure track collegial faculty member within the Collections Management Department. The position manages the acquisition of information resources in all formats employing sound fiscal [...]
Read More... →What a surprise! Steve Sutton, never to be left behind, he was at netlibrary way back when, remember?, will be joining On Demand Books (www.ondemandbooks.com) as Vice President, Director of University and Library Sales starting February 5th. Wow! Congratulations, Steve. And watch for our interview with Dane Neller, CEO.
Read More... →Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has acquired the assets of Questia Media, Inc., a provider of information and educational resources to students through its questia.com and questiaschool.com products. Questia provides a subscription-based online information service that gives users access to more than 76,000 books from 300+ publishers and millions of articles from journals, magazines and [...]
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