From the monthly archives: October 2011
The Rise of Charleston: Conversations with Visionaries, Luminaries and Emissaries of the Holy City, by W. Thomas McQueeney. November 2011, 978-1-60949-479-7, Trade Hardcover, 320 pages.
Since its 1670 founding, Charleston has experienced the devastation of wars, economic hardships and natural disasters. And yet, Charlestonians and their city have prevailed through it all. It is in this current generational surge [...]
Read More... →Copyright Clearance Center Distributes More Than $170 Million to Rightsholders in FY’11, Reaching $1.3 Billion over Ten Years
Rights Licensing Experts Disseminate More Than $170 million to Rightsholders in FY11
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, announced a record royalty payment of $171.1 million to rightsholders [...]
Read More... →Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success.
Anyone interested in the future of new publishing models based within academic libraries will want to take a look at this full draft report on the Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success project. It is now available at the SPARC Campus-based Publishing Site. The authors are soliciting online comments [...]
Read More... →In this recent blog post Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, lends credence to the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. He wryly observes that he has derived “considerable pleasure … over the past year or so, as one traditional publisher after another [...]
Read More... →IFLA Acquisitions & Collection Development Section is calling for papers for this year’s upcoming Congress on the theme “Treating Print in an Increasing Digital Collection: Issues, Dilemmas & Directions” The sponsors admit that reader preferences indicate “a [...]
Read More... →Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
The European Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana…The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted [...]
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