Today’s menu: the Supreme Court agrees to hear copyright case; a NASIG conference mentoring program; Highwire and the Royal College of Physicians partner; Foyle’s selects Ingram for catalog data; and ACRL announces four new discussion groups.
Supreme Court takes another look at gray market resale
Reuters reports that “the Supreme Court has decided to take a second crack at reconciling two apparently contradictory provisions in the Copyright Act: one that permits buyers to resell goods without worrying about permission from U.S. copyright holders, and another that controls the importation of copyrighted material into the United States… The case in which the Supreme Court granted certiorari or judicial review involves a Thai graduate student reselling used foreign-manufactured books on eBay, but the court’s ultimate ruling will profoundly affect the approximately $63 billion “gray market” business…”
NASIG’s Mentoring Group to sponsor a Conference Mentoring Program
“NASIG’s Mentoring Group is again sponsoring a Conference Mentoring Program to help make new conference attendees feel more at ease, highlight membership benefits and create networking opportunities. The program will match experienced NASIG conference attendees with new conference goers.
The only requirement to be a mentee is attendance at the 27th Annual NASIG Conference in Nashville, TN.
To be a mentor, we ask you have attended a previous NASIG conference, be willing to make contact with your mentee prior to the conference, and be willing to meet with your mentee at the conference. Of course we hope you’ll also check on your mentee during the conference, especially at group social events, just to make sure they aren’t lonely.
Our Guidelines for Mentors and Mentees is available at http://www.nasig.org/committee_mentor_guidelines.cfm.”
Royal College of Physicians Partners with HighWire
“The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is pleased to announce its new partnership with HighWire Press to build and host its flagship, peer reviewed journal, Clinical Medicine.”
“We were seeking a sophisticated and reliable partner to help us develop and expand the journal’s online presence,” said Hannah Cole, Managing Editor, Publications, Royal College of Physicians. “We are confident that the HighWire platform offers us a solid, future‐proof foundation, and are thrilled with the organization’s strategic, service‐oriented approach to collaborative scholarly publishing…”
Leading U.K. bookseller Foyles Selects Ingram for Catalog Data and Direct Fulfillment to Customers
“UK bookseller Foyles has selected Ingram to grow its online range of American titles by several million and deliver direct to its customers from the US, further increasing choice and speed of overseas delivery… Under the agreement, Foyles will receive title data from Ingram to populate http://www.foyles.co.uk. – the new comprehensive data feed will include all title genres. The Ingram feed will significantly increase the selection offered to Foyles customers, which currently offers a selection of more than 13 million books and 200,000 e-books…”
New Discussion Groups
ACRL announces the establishment of four new discussion groups, which were approved by the ACRL Board of Directors during the 2011-12 fiscal year. The new discussion groups and their charges are as follows:
- The Digital Humanities Discussion Group provides a venue for ACRL members to meet and share ideas related to Digital Humanities and the role of librarians in this emerging discipline.
- The International Perspectives on Academic and Research Libraries Discussion Group serves to promote awareness and discussion of the international, transnational, and global dimensions of issues critical to the future of academic and research libraries, to promote comparative study of academic library trends, issues, and operations, and to promote collaboration between academic and research librarians on issues benefiting from an international perspective.
- The Leadership Discussion Group provides a forum for conversation, communication and collaboration about leadership and management issues important to academic librarians.
- The Student Retention Discussion Group serves as a forum to discuss methods, best practices, and assessment for developing case-by-case and programmatic efforts related to student retention.
Complete details on ACRL discussion groups are available on the ACRL website
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