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NACS Media Solutions (NMS), a subsidiary of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) and On Demand Books LLC (ODB), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), have entered into a joint agreement whereby NMS will market the EBM to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content for distribution throughout the worldwide network of [...]

Get ready bookworms!

The Friends of the Newark Public Library will kick off its annual book sale on Saturday, April 17 in Centennial Hall of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street. The sale is a treasure trove for bargain hunters and book lovers, with thousands of paperbacks, hard covers, magazines, CDs and DVDs from which to [...]

Participants are invited to register for a spectacular summer program to Prague entitled, “Libraries and Librarianship in the Czech Republic” that will be offered May 23 to June 5, 2010.

There are just a couple of spaces left for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science’s 2010 summer international [...]

From a press release issued by ProQuest on March 8, 2010:

The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English daily newspaper, will join ProQuest Historical Newspapers™, expanding the international content in this acclaimed archive. ProQuest announced at the International Federation of Library Association’s International Newspaper Conference in New Delhi that it will enable digital access [...]

The open access journal, Collaborative Librarianship, (eISSN: 1943-7528) has published the first issue of Volume 2 featuring articles, interviews, reviews and news reports (updated several times per week). See: www.collaborativelibrarianship.org.

Collaborative Librarianship – Call for Papers

The Fall 2010 issue of Collaborative Librarianship will focus on the role consortia play in library collaboration. Consortia and cooperatives are [...]

Registration is now open for the New England Technical Services Librarians’ 2010 Spring Conference!

Visit http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm  for more details on the program and registration information. We look forward to seeing you there!

NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2010: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move

Thursday, April 15, 2010
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Check-in begins at 8:30 [...]

Excerpt from LJ Academic News Wire, 3-2-2010:

At Library Journal, we’re pleased, and relieved, at the turn of events that has aligned us with a library company, Media Source, headed by CEO Randy Asmo. Soon we will move to new digs in New York City (location TBD), along with our sister publication School Library Journal, and [...]

In partnership with SUNY Binghamton’s Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, Alexander Street today announced that one of their most popular online resources, Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, will be freely accessible for the month of March so that all librarians, students, instructors, and scholars can [...]

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a Fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks.

The survey was conducted as part of HighWire’s ongoing exploration of the fast-growing scholarly ebook market. The results and accompanying analysis draw together the input of 138 [...]

The winners of an iPod Shuffle were drawn after the survey closed. The two winners are Joanne Romano, licensing and serials librarian, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX, and Dung-Lan Chen, bibliographic services/acquisitions librarian, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Watch for the survey results to be reported in the April print 2010 ATG [...]

The 19th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Sciences, will be held April 15, 2010 at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

The 2010 conference theme is “New Tricks for Old Dogs: Serials Control and Access.”

For details, see http://nccuslis.org/conted/conted.php.

Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Publishers to preserve its entire collection of 52 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Akadémiai Kiadó furthers its preservation strategy, which includes participation in JSTOR since 2003 on behalf of three journals, and ensures that its e-journals will be [...]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Salzburg Global Seminar announce release of the report, “Connecting to the World’s Collections: Making the Case for Conservation and Preservation of Our Cultural Heritage” based on a seminar held in Salzburg, Austria, October 28-November 1, 2009. The seminar, part of the IMLS’s multi-year initiative on [...]

LYRASIS announces a collaboration with the South Carolina State Library and DISCUS, South Carolina’s Virtual Library, to provide a customized online collection of current resources for job seekers in the state. The partnership is creating a collection, using the OCLC NetLibrary ® eContent platform, of more than 250 electronic books and reference materials for career [...]