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"Charleston 2012: The Blog"
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Greg Tannenbaum, CEO, ScholarNext, writes a column with that title in Against the Grain, and it has become a tradition at the Charleston Conference for him to present a live version. This year, his event [...]
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A panel of publishing industry executives discussed how libraries can deal with the flood of information being published today.
This panel addressed these questions:
New Curation Models
Mark Coker, [...]
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Anurag Acharya, Lead Engineer Google Scholar, set out to build something he would want to use himself, and 8 years later, it became Google Scholar. He took us on a fascinating tour of its ideas [...]
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Peter Brantley began by noting that e-books originally were repurposed print equivalents, initially in PDF format. But that has all changed. Peter Brantley, Director, Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive, and Mike Shatzkin, [...]
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Annette Thomas, CEO of Macmillan Publishers, kicked off the conference with a brief history of Macmillan and her career. She noted that Macmillan is very focused on science and education and how publishing supports scientists. [...]
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I stopped by the exhibit on the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) and found it fascinating. Brianna Ross from the Harvard University Press (HUP) explained it to me. DARE can tell you all [...]
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