Date: September 15, 2009
OCLC News - OCLC Board of Trustees convenes Council to study and develop new WorldCat Record Use Policy

The OCLC Board of Trustees has convened a Record Use Policy Council, which will draw upon the fundamental values of the OCLC cooperative and engage with the global library community to develop the next generation of the WorldCat Record Use Policy. The intent is to recommend to the OCLC Board of Trustees a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy will replace the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records that was developed in 1987.

The formation of this council was one of the recommendations contained in the final report of the OCLC Review Board on the Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship formed in January 2009 to represent the membership and inform OCLC on best practices for sharing library data.

The Policy Council is also charged with carrying out the other recommendations contained in the final report, including development of a policy to enable expanding the role and value of WorldCat in the broad information ecosystem.

The members of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council have agreed to undertake a significant body of work to canvass the current and future information needs of the library community and provide a broad and inclusive set of perspectives and experiences.

For more information, view the entire press release.

Date: September 15, 2009
Library Journal Webcast Alert

Takin' it the Street: Why Businesses, non-profits and libraries must change how they deliver service to their markets‏
Wednesday, September 30, 2:00 - 3:00 pm

For more information and to register online for this free webcast, click here.

Date: September 13, 2009
Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries

ACRL announces the publication of a new title, Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries, number 40 in the ACRL CLIP Notes series. Compiled by Marcia Thomas and Anke Voss, and edited by Thomas, Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries provides information on disaster and emergency response planning and management to assist librarians in the creation and updates of emergency response plans.

The title updates Emergency Planning and Management in College Libraries (CLIP Note #17) with responses to a revised survey and the compilation of newer plans and policies that reflect recent events such as Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11. Included documents contain procedures for coping with a wide range of potential emergencies, from power failures to armed intruders, and a bibliography points to articles, books and professionally developed Web sites containing extensive documentation on current best practices.

Purchase Emergency Response Planning in College Libraries through the ALA Online Store and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

Date: September 11, 2009
CrossRef Collaborates with SAGE, OUP, CLOCKSS and Portico to Light Up Archive for Discontinued Journal Articles

CrossRef has collaborated with archiving organizations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico.

The following are live examples of CrossRef DOIs from each of the archived journals:
Auto/Biography: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0967550706ab044oa
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brief-treatment/mhg012
Graft: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1522162802239753

Date: September 11, 2009
AAAS/Science - Save The Date! Science Translational Medicine Launches 7 Oct 2009

Science Translational Medicine, the new journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of Science, launches 7 October 2009.

Sign up for a free 90-Day Trial and catch the first issue of this new resource.

To learn more about AAAS/Science's new resource, visit ScienceTranslationalMedicine.org or contact:
Kiki Forsythe, M.L.S.
Publisher Relations
e-Resources Specialist
AAAS/Science
1200 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20005
scienceonline@info-aaas.org

Date: September 10, 2009
Medical Librarianship: Scholarships and Careers

The Medical Library Association is once again please to offer the following grants and scholarship opportunities to graduate and post-graduate library students:
*The MLA Scholarship
*The MLA Scholarship for Minority Students
*Rittenhouse Award

For more information, please consult the following website: www.mlanet.org/awards/grants.

Date: September 9, 2009
Connect with the Charleston Conference

The Charleston Conference is now on Twitter and Facebook. Tweet the Conference by posting to #chsconf09. Check it out to keep up with all the latest announcements and info!

Date: September 1, 2009
Public Engagement, SPEC Kit 312, Published by ARL

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Public Engagement, SPEC Kit 312, which explores the ways in which traditional "outreach" programs in academic libraries are evolving to address the emergent concept of "public engagement" at the institutional level and the degree to which the library is integrated into campus-level efforts to promote public engagement.

This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of mission statements, descriptions of library engagement programs, examples of awards program, scholarship of engagement information, and job descriptions.

The table of contents and executive summary from this SPEC Kit are available online at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-312-web.pdf.

For more information, view the press release online.

Date: August 31, 2009
Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution

4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana, Europe's multilingual digital library (www.europeana.eu). The collection of Europeana has more than doubled since it was launched in November 2008 ( IP/08/1747 ). Today the European Commission, in a policy document declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects to 10 million by 2010. The Commission also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation in Europe: the potential of the public and private sector to team up and the need to reform Europe's too fragmented copyright framework.

For more information, see their press release online at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=5181.

Date: July 15, 2009
July 2009 (v11n1) issue of The Charleston Advisor now online!
The July 2009 (v11n1) issue of The Charleston Advisor is now available online at http://charlestonco.com. Check it out!

Date: July 15, 2009
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4

The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 is now available from Digital Scholarship.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm

This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories.

Date: July 10, 2009
Blackwell Partners with Ingram Digital to Distribute e-Books to the Academic Library Community

An agreement was announced today between Blackwell and Ingram Digital, giving Blackwell e-book distribution rights to libraries around the world via Ingram’s MyiLibrary® platform, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Canada. The agreement will allow Blackwell Digital Services customers to discover and order MyiLibrary e-books via Collection Manager, the Blackwell interface.

MyiLibrary is a sophisticated platform of aggregated e-book content from the world’s leading commercial publishers. It currently hosts over 185,000 e-books and is used by hundreds of academic, public and professional libraries around the world.

Blackwell’s Collection Manager has just been released in a new version, providing sophisticated faceted search capabilities using the Endeca search engine. FRBRized organization of searched titles will allow libraries to see metadata for both print and electronic versions of books, including those available from the MyiLibrary platform. Identified orders can then be ordered directly through Collection Manager, or from the library’s order system, based on data downloaded from Collection Manager. Assistance in answering licensing and platform questions will be available from experts within Blackwell’s Digital Services Department.

CONTACT:
Amanda Denton
LargeMouth Communications (Public Relations)
+1 (919) 459-6456
amanda@largemouthpr.com

Tanya Matthias
Blackwell
Marketing Manager
Tel: (303) 377-1786
Tanya.matthias@blackwell.com

Date: July 9, 2009
Elsevier Foundation Grant Deadline

The Elsevier Foundation is accepting new grant proposals for its 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars programs through August 1st. Sponsored by Elsevier, a leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, the grants for the two programs will be awarded in December 2009 and provide one, two and three year awards between US$5,000 to US$50,000 per year.

For more information on the program requirements and details of how to submit a 2009 proposal please visit The Elsevier Foundation online.

Date: July 9, 2009
ATG's Latest Reader Survey
Click here to participate in ATG's latest reader survey on Library Budgeting. We want to know how the economic crisis is affecting you! Contact Leah Hinds with questions at leah@katina.info.

Date: July 6, 2009
Registration Now Open
Scholarly Communication 101: ACRL Workshop
8/7/09, Denver, CO‏

In conjunction with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Auraria Library, along with its partners, the Colorado Association of Libraries Academic Library Association and the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, is delighted to host a free day-long workshop on “Scholarly Communications 101: Starting with the Basics.”

The workshop will take place on August 7, 2009, at the Tiviloi Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver from 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Onsite check-in will begin at 9 a.m.

Registration is required and space is limited to 100 participants, so please register soon to ensure a space.

The Workshop is subsidized by ACRL, the Auraria Library, and the Colorado Academic Library Association in order to make it FREE OF CHARGE to participants.

For more information and to register, please visit the workshop web page http://library.auraria.edu/acrlroadshow/ .

Date: July 6, 2009
Accessible Archives, Inc. Provides Exclusive Full-Text Access to the Virginia Gazette

Accessible Archives, Inc.©, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced that a fully-searchable version of The Virginia Gazette, 1736–1780, will be added to its online database collection. The newspaper currently is available in digital format only as an image file on the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library website at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

For more information, contact:
Tom Nagy
866-296-1488 or 610-296-2040
Accessible Archives, Inc
tnagy@accessible.com
www.accissible.com.

Date: July 6, 2009
Invitation from BE Press

Berkeley Electronic Press invites you to visit us at the ALA Booth #4442 -- to get a sneak peek at ResearchNow 2010 and our newest journals in public policy. Join us for cake and refreshments as we celebrate bepress's 10th Anniversary!

Sunday July 12th
Exhibit Hall H, Booth 4442 @ 2:30PM

Won't be at the ALA? To find out more and to take advantage of these special offers directly, email sales@bepress.com.