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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 [...]
Read More... →DCL and Gale Partner for eContent
In an obvious move away from the current practice of licensing ebooks, Douglas County Libraries and Gale/Cengage Learning have signed an agreement “allowing for library purchase of Gale eBooks effectively replicating the model by which libraries purchase print materials and applying it to electronic content.” According [...]
Read More... →TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada
14-17 June 2012
http://thehumanities.com/conference/
We are pleased to announce the Call-for-Papers for the Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. The conference and its companion journal provide vibrant, intellectually stimulating spaces for scholars from all geographic and [...]
Read More... →HighWire Press Partners with TEMIS to Semantically Enrich Publishers’ Content
This strategic agreement between two leaders enables HighWire to offer superb discoverability and productization to its customers in the highest quality semantically-enabled open publishing platform.
HighWire Press, the industry leader in the provision of high quality hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers around [...]
Read More... →New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional Online – NISO
NISO’s November webinar, New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional Online Catalogs-to be held on November 9, 2011 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.-will explore the areas of the discovery platform marketplace, selection and implementation strategies, and usability. Topics include:
*A Web Scale Discovery Refresher – Athena [...]
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