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The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has selected Aisha Harvey, Head of Collection Development at Duke University’s Perkins Library, to serve as the organization’s first Visiting Program Officer (VPO). Ms. Harvey will lead the development of a cooperative print journal retention program for ASERL member libraries. Her work with ASERL will be [...]

Publishers Communication Group (PCG), pioneers of research, sales and marketing services for scholarly and professional publishers, is delighted to extend their 20 years of expertise to leading academic, scientific and professional publisher, Inderscience, for comprehensive sales and marketing representation in Europe and North America.

Inderscience will benefit from PCG’s unparalleled network of library prospects and its [...]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications to its largest museum grant program, Museums for America (MFA), for fiscal year 2011. Museums for America grants provide up to $150,000 in funding and support projects that strengthen a museum’s capacity to serve its community.

Museums for America grants are awarded in the following [...]

ProQuest is making it easier for students to contribute their work to the world’s most widely consulted source of graduate research. The company is eliminating fees for basic submission to ProQuest Dissertation &Theses Database through its ProQuest / UMI ETD Administrator. Use of the ETD Administrator — with its simple, paper-free, online process – has [...]

Grant MacEwan University (MacEwan) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its library discovery solution. As a long time EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) customer, MacEwan was confident that EBSCO’s familiar interface and deep content coverage would provide a strong foundation upon which to launch its new discovery service.

Are you looking for funds to help pay for your trip to ALA Annual 2011 in New Orleans? Apply by Tuesday, December 14, 2010 for the NMRT Shirley Olofson Memorial Award and you may receive a $1000 check to help defray the cost of attendance!

Applicants must:

Be a member of ALA and NMRT
Be active in the [...]

Preparing Your Library for RDA
September 14-15, 2010
Hosted by Mary Beth Weber and Christopher Cronin

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, sessions begin and end at:

Pacific: 7am – 3pm
Mountain: 8am – 4pm
Central: 9am – 5pm
Eastern: 10am – 6pm

Released in [...]

Atex, the largest global provider of integrated Content Management and Advertising systems for media-rich industries, was positioned in the Gartner 2010 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management* report.

To be considered for the Magic Quadrant, companies had to satisfy a strict list of qualification criteria, which included annual Web CMS revenues greater than $10 million and [...]

BioOne is pleased to welcome six new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2011 BioOne Collections. These additions further enhance the value of BioOne, an essential aggregation of quality content encompassing the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Four titles from the prestigious National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France will join the BioOne.2 collection: [...]

from http://www.convergemag.com/
By Jessica B. Mulholland
on August 17, 2010

The iPad is the hottest tablet to be carrying around. And soon, first and second graders at Burley Elementary School in Chicago will be carrying them around the classroom.

Burley, a literature and technology magnet within Chicago Public Schools (CPS), will use the iPads to differentiate instruction according to [...]

Brill sees stable revenue and increased profit during first half year 2010

Revenue of Brill ended on M€11,3 and stayed close to the same period of 2009 (M€ 11,5).
Gross profit dropped slightly by 1,65% to M€ 7,5.
Operating expenses decreased M€ 0,5 to M€ 4,4.
EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) increased 43,9% to M€ 1,4 [...]

Semantico, a leading provider of services and technology for online publishing, is pleased to announce the launch of its new app for iPhone and iPad, Dictionarium.

Dictionarium is now available from: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictionarium/id385922023?mt=8

Dictionarium is an encyclopedic English dictionary. The app brings GNU Project’s publication of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE), to Apple mobile platforms in [...]

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2010 Charleston Conference
November 3 – 6, 2010
Historic Downtown Charleston

Application deadlines are approaching for the Juried Product Development Forums and the all new Fast Tech Talks.

The Forums are focus groups designed for publishers and vendors to gather market input from librarians on the development of a particular product or service, and for librarians to discuss market [...]

Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), LYRASIS will host a national discussion to explore development of a framework for collaborative archiving and retention of print monograph collections. Much has been accomplished in recent years to design and implement collaborative approaches for long-term retention of journal, newspaper, and [...]