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Name: Marie Bloechle Position: Electronic Acquisitions Librarian Organization:University of North Texas Libraries Email: marie.bloechle@unt.edu Website: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marie-bloechle/20/445/1b2
Born and Lived: I’m an army brat, so was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Soon after, though, my dad left the army and moved his family to Southern California to become a professor of geophysics at UCLA. [...]
Read More... →Title: Fully Booked – Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications Editors: Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner, and Andrew Losowsky Hardcover: 978-3-89955-464-9, $65 Imprint: Berlin: Gestalten, 2013
“Digital media are disappointing for books. All books look the same on an iPad, for example. On a monitor, a book isn’t thick [...]
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Name: Ann Lawson Position: EU Publisher Sales and Marketing Director Organization: EBSCO Information Services Oxford, UK Phone: +44 7970 936038 Email:<alawson@ebsco.com> Website: www.ebsco.com
Born and lived: Born in Glasgow, Scotland, lived there until I left home to go to university on the day of my 18th birthday. I studied [...]
Read More... →“Elsevier Acquires Mendeley” is an article by Barbara Brynko that appeared on the Information Today website last week about a landmark acquisition that promises to have a significant impact on the worlds of academic publishing, research, and libraries.
Those unfamiliar with the particulars will welcome Ms. Brynko’s efforts in distilling the [...]
Read More... →Title: Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite Author: Julija Sukys Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-8032-3632-5, $24.95; Kindle Edition: ASIN: B008FMU34I, $9.99 Imprint: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012
“The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. [...]
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