From the monthly archives: August 2011
As noted on the ATG NewsChannel, “several libraries have recently pledged to follow the University of Michigan’s lead in making available on their campuses digital copies of books whose copyright holders cannot be found to ask for permission.”
ATG wonders:
Read More: Major Libraries Join Controversial Project to Publish ‘Orphan’ Books Online
Read More... →Haights Cross Communications, a premier educational and library publisher, has announced the appointment of Kevin R. Brueggeman as President and Chief Executive Officer of its Triumph Learning, LLC, business unit. Triumph Learning, based in New York City, is the leading provider of state-specific, standards-based education materials for grades K-12. Brueggeman succeeds Ron Schlosser, Haights Cross [...]
Read More... →As you may have already noticed when browsing the Brill website at www.brill.nl, Brill has a new look. Early May we transformed our website, giving not only a new look and feel but also adding more and new functionalities.
Read More... →DIRECT2Experts connects researchers across disciplines, institutions and platforms
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced that 14 institutions that use SciVal Experts, Elsevier’s directory of research expertise, now participate in DIRECT2Experts. This online network allows users from academic institutions throughout the United States to find potential research collaborators, [...]
Read More... →Recorded Books, the world’s largest independent producer of audiobooks, has announced that it will begin distribution of Signing Savvy for Libraries, a comprehensive online American Sign Language (ASL) resource for public libraries in the United States and Canada. Signing Savvy contains thousands of high-resolution videos of signs, finger-spelled words, and other common signs. Patrons will [...]
Read More... →Report Shows Increased Need for Libraries on Campuses
The need for libraries on college and university campuses has increased, according to a new ALA, Office for Research and Statistics study entitled “Trends in Academic Libraries, 1998 to 2008.” Analyzing data from the Academic Library Survey administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), [...]
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