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People in the News 5/13/13

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 NASIG Selects Shannon Regan for 2013 Horizon Award

EBSCO is pleased to announce that Shannon Regan, licensed content librarian at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., has been awarded the 2013 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Read More...

In the News: Microsoft offers to buy Nook; Charleston Library Society’s collection of George Washington letters;  National Library Legislative Day draws hundreds of advocates; New Executive Order on Government Transparency; Australia and New Zealand libraries make collections available with OCLC’s CONTENTdm; and EBSCO introduces Civil War digital archive collection.

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HARRASSOWITZ Announces 2013 Charleston Conference Scholarship

HARRASSOWITZ, international booksellers and subscription agents, is pleased once again to offer a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Annual Charleston Conference that takes place November 6-9, 2013 in Charleston, SC. The scholarship is to be awarded to a librarian or paraprofessional who is currently working in a [...]

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People in the News 5/10/13

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PLOS Appoints Elizabeth Marincola as Chief Executive Officer

PLOS is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer. Attracting one of publishing’s most inspiring leaders, PLOS has named Elizabeth Marincola as CEO, effective August 12, 2013.  For the past 8 years Marincola served as President and CEO of Society for [...]

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Coursera announces pilot program with publishers to supplement MOOCs, Librarians take aim at Pew Study; a recently released fact sheet from LIBER; an ebook data experiment from OverDrive and Sourcebooks; Wiley Global Finance Launches WileyTrading.com;   27th Annual National Archives Preservation Conference canceled;

Coursera Announces Pilot Program With Publishers to Supplement Online [...]

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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 [...]

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