From the monthly archives: March 2011
The University of Connecticut Libraries seeks to provide users with access to intellectual content that fulfills their academic and research needs and to collections that support the University’s teaching, learning, research and public engagement activities. The University Libraries seek an energetic, user-centered, collaborative, service-oriented and forward thinking Electronic Resources Management Librarian to provide creative leadership [...]
Read More... →Accessible Archives, Inc., an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases, has signed an agreement with OCLC Online Computer Library Center to make its content available through the WorldCat Local and TouchPoint services, which provide an integrated discovery and delivery service for libraries’ physical and electronic collections.
Read More... →Lyrasis Webinar
Not all valuable rare books are ancient, leather-bound tomes. Without realizing it, you may have collectible items in your stacks right now, or in your donation pile, or in your book sale! This four-hour online class introduces rare books to the ordinary librarian. You will learn what makes a book “rare,” ways to [...]
Read More... →Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, today announced Gale will be preserving three additional digital historical collections with Portico. This follows the completed ingest of 10 Gale Digital Collections—including 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources and Eighteenth Century Collections Online—and represents over 80 [...]
Read More... →Institutions in the United States dominate a new ranking of the world’s top 50 institutions. The Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 published today ranks the top 50 institutions in the world, according to their output of primary research articles in Nature research journals in 2010. Launched today as a beta website at www.natureasia.com/publishing-index/global, [...]
Read More... →Pictures, letters and memorabilia wanted
“The First World War in everyday documents” is launched today with a call to the public in Germany to participate in building adigital European archive by contributing private memorabilia from the First World War. We are looking for photographs, letters, diaries, short films, audio recordings, objects and their stories. Following [...]
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