From the monthly archives: February 2011

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is hosting a webinar that will address key findings from a three-year study titled “E-books and the Future of University Presses“. NFAIS is a membership association for organisations that seek to create, organise and facilitate access to authoritative information.

The webinar, scheduled for March 23, 2011 [...]

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By Mike Diaz, ProQuest

IBM’s Watson wins on Jeopardy, delivering fast answers in a question and answer format in a game forces contestants to understand nuance and hidden meaning in questions. The below post suggests that the technology solutions developed in IBM’s work with Watson could ultimately be a boon for the reference [...]

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North American Sales Search

On February 24, 2011 By

From Executive Search Associates, Feb. 23, 2011:

We are conducting a search for a Director of Academic Sales for a leading library services company. This position will manage a North American sales force selling services and products into academic libraries and institutions. Successful candidate must have significant academic sales experience, sales management expertise and the [...]

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The University Libraries at The University of Akron seeks a creative, collaborative, dynamic and user-focused librarian to lead the new Research and Learning Services department.    Reporting to the associate dean, the Head of Research and Learning Services will help develop a common vision by providing clear direction and priorities in the context of the Libraries’ [...]

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The 20th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Sciences, will be held March 10, 2011 at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

The 2011 conference theme is “Time Flies…Exploring the Future for Serialists.”

For details, see http://nccuslis.org/conted/conted.php.

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Name: Matt Hancox
Title: Account Executive, Digital Archives
Organization: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Address: 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Phone: (800) 877-4253 x2244
Fax: (919) 882-1299
Email: matthew.hancox@cengage.com
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