From the monthly archives: May 2010
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries today announced that they had secured Planning Permission approval and Listed Building Consent from Oxford City Council for the £78 million restoration and renovation of the New Bodleian Library, to be reopened as the Weston Library in 2014/2015. The long-awaited project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (WEA), has three aims: to [...]
Read More... →Kansas State University is conducting a search for the position of Head, Content Development/Acquisitions Department at K-State Libraries.
MLS as well as experience in acquisitions, e-resources, resource sharing, or collection development/management required. For a complete position description and application procedures visit our website: www.lib.k-state.edu/jobs.
EOE. Background check required.
Read More... →The Collection Management & Development Section (CMDS) of the Association for Library Collections & Techinical Services (ALCTS) invites you to attend a research forum, “Emerging Research in Collection Management & Development,” at the 2010 American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The program will feature two speakers and will be held Sunday, June 27, [...]
Read More... →From Wired Campus, May 24, 2010:
Last week was a big one for Google fans in higher education. Google Wave opened its doors, and Google Voice now lets students get calls forwarded from their old numbers to their new phones.
Google made one more announcement last week—about a new [...]
Read More... →Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, today announced that five of its titles were honored at the 53rd Annual New England Book Show. Titles were honored in the following categories: College Textbooks, College Covers/Jackets and Elementary-High School (El-Hi) Covers/Jackets.
Read More... →The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) June webinar—June9 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)—will feature: Control Your Vocabulary: Real-World Applications of Semantic Technology.
Semantic technologies are slowly opening up new frontiers in discovery and interaction with content. By tying together related terms, concepts, and data in meaningful ways, we can move beyond keyword searching as [...]
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