From the monthly archives: February 2010
Building on three years of successful coprogramming, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will again co‐host The Changing Standards Landscape on June 25, 2010 from 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM, directly prior to the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This year’s free, half‐day program will [...]
Read More... →Europeana welcomes a report from the European Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee, calling for more content and a sustainable funding solution.
The report, which was unanimously approved by the Committee in a meeting on February 22 and 23, urges governments and cultural institutions to work together to speed up digitisation of their cultural heritage. It [...]
Read More... →The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stephen J. Bury to the post of Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library. For the past ten years, he has been at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world’s greatest research [...]
Read More... →The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dean Smith as Director, Project MUSE. Smith will lead the Press’ flagship electronic scholarly journals publishing program beginning March 10, 2010. Project MUSE’s innovative and collaborative approach to online publishing offers a fair and sustainable model for both libraries and publishers, and [...]
Read More... →Ingram Marketing Group Inc., the marketing and advertising agency of Ingram, today announced the launch of PubLinkSM, a specialized software/CRM tool that gives publishers a robust and flexible platform to manage, track and deliver product catalogs and galleys in both print and electronic formats.
The powerful functionality of Ingram’s PubLink allows publishers to store and [...]
Read More... →Author Solutions (ASI), the world leader in indie book publishing, announced today a distribution deal with Scribd – the world’s largest social publishing company.
Under terms of the agreement, all new ASI titles published through the AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford Publishing, and Xlibris imprints will be made available for purchase. As well, a portion of ASI’s [...]
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