New partnership between EBSCO and BioOne Online Journals and Wolters Kluwer Health; Scholarships available from PTPL; the May issue of CD HotList has been posted; Elsevier Foundation calls for 2013 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries Projects; WorldCat database reaches 2 billion holdings; Ingram’s Vital Source receives Telly awards; a new ALA report on ebook platforms for libraries is out and ebrary adds titles from Wiley to Academic Complete.
Citing the New York Public Library website InfoDOCKET reports that “plans released today depicting The New York Public Library’s all-new 53rd Street branch in midtown Manhattan portray an open, light-filled design that offers a rich variety of public reading and meeting spaces, a family and children’s area, state-of-the-art computer labs, an audio-video collection, and accessible book collections that encourage communal interaction throughout…”
BioOne Online Journals are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), from EBSCO. EBSCO Discovery Service users are able to search more than 100,000 scholarly articles from bioscience research …
BioOne’s collaboration of publications includes 176 titles from 132 publishers, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research and ecological & biodiversity conservation…”
EBSCO also announces that they and Wolters Kluwer Health “have come to an agreement allowing metadata from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals on the Ovid institutional research platform to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). This agreement extends the Wolters Kluwer Health journal portfolio on EDS with its Medknow open access medical journals currently accessible to users…”
Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (PTPL) announces the availability of two $1,000 scholarships for future librarians interested in technical services. Students living or working in the PTPL membership region (DC, Maryland, Virginia) and who are currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited Library and/or Information Science program, including distance education programs, are invited to apply…”
A post from Rick Anderson posted the COLLDV-L listserv notes that “this month’s recommendations include a wonderful two-disc tribute to New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet; a collection of Merle Haggard’s singles for the Capitol label; some obscure choral music from the Sistine Chapel; a posthumous album by Cape Verde legend Cesaria Evora; and much, much more.”
The Elsevier Foundation Calls for 2013 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries Projects
“The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for the 2013 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programs. The deadline for applications is June 24th 2013. Grants will be awarded in December 2013 and provideone, two and three year awards between US$ 5,000 to US$ 50,000 per year for a total of US$ 100,000. The Elsevier Foundation will accept 1 page applications from May 6th through June 24th via www.elsevierfoundation.org. Forty shortlisted applications will be invited to submit full proposals by September 3rd…”
OCLC announced that “WorldCat … has reached another major milestone with the addition of its 2 billionth holding.
On Saturday, May 4, at 2:58 a.m. (MDT), the holding symbol for the University of Alberta Libraries, in Edmonton, was set through an automated process to the WorldCat record for the e-book, Evaluation of the City of Lakes Family Health Team Patient Portal Pilot Project: Final Report, published in 2012 by the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research. It was the 2 billionth holding set in WorldCat. The e-book catalog record was created by the Canadian Electronic Book Library, an e-book provider in Canada, and was enhanced through OCLC’s automated authority control processing system…”
No Shelf Required reports that “Ingram Content Group Inc … “announced that Vital Source Technologies, Inc. has been awarded two Telly Awards for their innovative work in educational video production. The prestigious Telly Award honors the finest video and film productions, outstanding cable TV commercials and programs and online commercials, video and films…”
New ALA report on ebook platforms for libraries is out
No Shelf Required also notes that “months in the making, ALA’ Library Technology Report (Volume 49, Issue 3) on ebook platforms for libraries is finally out.
Note from author Mirela Roncevic: “Librarians, I hope you find the comparative tables useful and the vast landscape of ebooks a bit less daunting after having read this report. Library vendors, I hope you benefit from the insight into how your products compare to others and how you can continue to improve their functionalities and business models…”
Information Today reports that “ebrary continues to expand its flagship subscription-database Academic Complete with 1,500 high-quality titles from publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The new content focuses on academic reading levels and covers Wiley’s most prestigious imprints, including Bloomberg Press, Josey-Bass, Wiley, Wiley-Blackwell, Wrox, Sybex, and more…”
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