From the monthly archives: April 2011
Submit your paper idea for the 31st Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition! Sign up is now open at www.katina.info.conference. Please fill out the form on the website by July 15th, 2011.
PLEASE NOTE: Companies are only allowed to be represented in two presentations during the Conference. All proposals should include at [...]
Read More... →ATG Article of the Week of April 25, 2011
No Room for Books by Kevin Kiley. Inside Higher Education, April 27, 2011.
This is about plans at the University of Denver to move much of Penrose Library’s holdings off campus. The space is being repurposed “with more seating, group space, and technological capacity.” Some books [...]
Read More... →Submitted by Tim Daniels, Lyrasis
Cloud services in libraries are on the rise. These services comprise anything from encouraging patrons to use Google Documents to a completely hosted ILS. In light of Amazon’s recent technical problems at their Virginia data center I wonder?
Read More... →Cengage Learning today announced details of MindApps™, a new partner program designed to support the development of apps and services for the MindTap platform. MindTap, Cengage Learning’s new delivery platform for digital products and services, engages students through interactivity while offering instructors choice in content and learning tools. MindTap is the first in a new [...]
Read More... →Presentations from the 2011 BioOne Publishers and Partners Meeting held on April 22 are now available for download. We would like to thank all of our speakers and attendees for their participation and engagement in this annual collaborative event. We encourage all members of the BioOne community to join us at next year’s meeting, [...]
Read More... →Session: May 23 – June 17, 2011
Description: This four-week online course addresses the basic components of collection development and management (CDM) in libraries. The course was developed by Peggy Johnson, University of Minnesota.
Complete definition of collection development and collection management:
Collections policies and budgets as part of library planning Collection development (selecting for and building collections) [...]
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