From the monthly archives: August 2011
Smithsonian Institution Libraries – Serials and Electronic Journals Coordinator
“The Serials and Electronic Journals Coordinator works closely with Acquisitions and Reader Services staff to provide integrated and efficient workflows for serials. The incumbent serves as the primary serials cataloger, creating original cataloging records and adapting complex copy cataloging records, and coordinates serials maintenance [...]
Read More... →Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is proud to announce that from 2012 it will be the publisher of the Journal of World Investment & Trade. Founded in 2000 by Werner Publishing (Geneva) the journal has established itself as one the leading journals in the field of international investment law and dispute settlement. Brill will publish [...]
Read More... →“On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items [...]
Read More... →Recent years have witnessed the emergence of new information channels know as “discovery services.” Broadly defined as a link between the information user and the platform on or location at which the information resides, [...]
Read More... →We are thrilled to Welcome Rochdale library to the Public Library Online - part of a beautiful story of a local couple’s dedication to literacy and philanthropy.
Annie and Frank Maskew, a Rochdale couple who married in January 1955, both shared a passion for reading and thinking, and originally met in Rochdale library. [...]
Read More... →ASIS&T’s Highest Honor Goes to Dr. Gary Marchionini
Dr. Gary Marchionini, dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at theSchool of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected to receive the Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the American Society of Information Science and [...]
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