From the monthly archives: November 2011
Today’s news includes more on Penguin, changes from Google, a new program from OverDrive and a database collection from ProQuest.
Penguin Restores Kindle Lending, but Still Not Providing Digital Editions of New Titles
Penguin “is temporarily restoring libraries’ ability to loan their e-books for Amazon.com’s Kindle.” But as a number of commentators have [...]
Read More... →Today’s news features a report on a recent Affinity magazine study, a new UNESCO website, news about Serial Solutions Summon and a EBSCO search enhancement.
Majority Of Readers Access Digital Magazine Content, Ads
According to this article in Media Daily News more than half (54%) “of 187 million American adults who interacted with magazine [...]
Read More... →Here are three professional meeting opportunities from ALCTS, Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference and the Maryland Library Association.
Launching Your Star Potential: Leadership for Today’s Libraries
This ALCTS Virtual Symposium “launches Jan. 9, 2012 and continues throughout that week with thought-provoking presentations from outstanding content leaders. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services [...]
Read More... →Here are a few weekend news items that we thought you might be interested about Gale, OverDrive, Maney Publishing, Ebooks, a Knowledge Exchange workshop, and the US Census Bureau.
Gale to Unveil New Times Digital Archive
According to this newsbreak from Information Today, Gale … is unveiling the all-new Times [...]
Read More... →According to this article from Inside Higher ED, American Sociological Association president, Erik Olin Wright is announcing “the Sociology in Wikipedia Initiative: a formal call to sociologists to help improve and expand Wikipedia entries that might benefit from their expertise and consider assigning their students to do the same.” Wright is making [...]
Read More... →This menu of “Extra Servings” features resources from Sage, Greenwood, CQ Press, and EBSCO.
Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health
Available from Sage Reference, this 6-volume work attempts to “define the interdisciplinary field of lifestyle medicine by drawing content from such areas as cardiovascular health, lifestyle management and prevention, nutrition, environmental stress, obesity and weight [...]
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