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Webinars from NISO and ACLTS:
NISO May 16 Webinar: Can I Access the World? Involving Users in E-book Acquisition and Sharing — Still Time to Register
There’s still time to register for NISO’s May 16 webinar (from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EDT), “Can I Access the World? Involving Users in E-book Acquisition [...]
Read More... →Today’s menu: A Gale/Wolper partnership; the latest from CNI Conversations; new Rosetta digital preservation system by Ex Libris; two archive databases from EBSCO; election results from ACRL; a new open access program launched by Versita; and the 2012 winners of the Booksellers Industry Awards.
Gale and Wolper Information Services Partner to Enhance [...]
Read More... →Title: How books came to America: the rise of the American book trade Author: Hruschka, John ISBN: Hardcover: 978-0-271-05081-2
Price: Hardcover: $74.95 Imprint: University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2012 Series Name: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
“Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that [...]
Read More... →Ebooks for business professionals from EBSCO; a new books series from Springer & Beijing Normal UP; Elsevier presents new “Clinical Insight Engine”; ARL endorses Visual Resources Association’s Statement on the Fair Use of Images; and Dean James Mullins and the Purdue University Libraries receive ARL honor.
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for [...]
Read More... →Momentum Builds for DCL’s eBook Model
Adding a little more fire to Friday’s ATG Hot Topic of the Week about ebooks, Digital Shift reports that “the Douglas County Libraries pioneering model for purchasing ebooks directly from publishers is gaining a significant amount of traction.
Colorado’s Marmot Library Network, Anythink [...]
Read More... →The GSU decision — not an easy road for anyone
A decision was issued late Friday in the Georgia State University e-reserves copyright case and Kevin Smith, Duke University’s Scholarly Communications Officer offers a thorough analysis in this well reasoned piece. Kevin’s initial reaction is that “overall there is good news for libraries … [...]
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