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Customized Publishing for Universities

Leah Hinds — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:51 +0000

NACS Media Solutions (NMS), a subsidiary of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) and On Demand Books LLC (ODB), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), have entered into a joint agreement whereby NMS will market the EBM to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content for distribution throughout the worldwide network of [...]

Annual Newark Public Library Book Sale

Leah Hinds — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:21:49 +0000

Get ready bookworms!

The Friends of the Newark Public Library will kick off its annual book sale on Saturday, April 17 in Centennial Hall of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street. The sale is a treasure trove for bargain hunters and book lovers, with thousands of paperbacks, hard covers, magazines, CDs and DVDs from which to [...]

Sign up today for a summer seminar to Prague

Leah Hinds — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:20:16 +0000

Participants are invited to register for a spectacular summer program to Prague entitled, “Libraries and Librarianship in the Czech Republic” that will be offered May 23 to June 5, 2010.

There are just a couple of spaces left for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science’s 2010 summer international [...]

ProQuest and The Times of India Partnership Expands International Content in Historical Archive

Leah Hinds — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:42 +0000

From a press release issued by ProQuest on March 8, 2010:

The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English daily newspaper, will join ProQuest Historical Newspapers™, expanding the international content in this acclaimed archive. ProQuest announced at the International Federation of Library Association’s International Newspaper Conference in New Delhi that it will enable digital access [...]

Collaborative Librarianship–Vol 2. no 1. Published; Call for Papers

Leah Hinds — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:07:36 +0000

The open access journal, Collaborative Librarianship, (eISSN: 1943-7528) has published the first issue of Volume 2 featuring articles, interviews, reviews and news reports (updated several times per week). See: www.collaborativelibrarianship.org.

Collaborative Librarianship – Call for Papers

The Fall 2010 issue of Collaborative Librarianship will focus on the role consortia play in library collaboration. Consortia and cooperatives are [...]

Registration is now open for the NETSL 2010 Spring Conference!

Leah Hinds — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:04:10 +0000

Registration is now open for the New England Technical Services Librarians’ 2010 Spring Conference!

Visit http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm for more details on the program and registration information. We look forward to seeing you there!

NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2010: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move

Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Check-in begins at 8:30 [...]

LJ Buyout

Leah Hinds — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:52:24 +0000

Excerpt from LJ Academic News Wire, 3-2-2010:

At Library Journal, we’re pleased, and relieved, at the turn of events that has aligned us with a library company, Media Source, headed by CEO Randy Asmo. Soon we will move to new digs in New York City (location TBD), along with our sister publication School Library Journal, and [...]

Online Publisher Celebrates Women’s History Month with Free Access to Popular Online Collection of Primary Materials and Teaching Tools

Leah Hinds — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:50:13 +0000

In partnership with SUNY Binghamton’s Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, Alexander Street today announced that one of their most popular online resources, Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, will be freely accessible for the month of March so that all librarians, students, instructors, and scholars can [...]

HighWire Presents Findings from eBooks Librarian Survey

Leah Hinds — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:48:27 +0000

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a Fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks.

The survey was conducted as part of HighWire’s ongoing exploration of the fast-growing scholarly ebook market. The results and accompanying analysis draw together the input of 138 [...]

iPod Shuffle Winners from the ERM Systems Usage Trends Survey

Leah Hinds — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:46:41 +0000

The winners of an iPod Shuffle were drawn after the survey closed. The two winners are Joanne Romano, licensing and serials librarian, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX, and Dung-Lan Chen, bibliographic services/acquisitions librarian, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Watch for the survey results to be reported in the April print 2010 ATG [...]

Manager, Publisher Relations job opportunity with OCLC

Leah Hinds — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:48 +0000

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. We are currently [...]

Nature Communications announces Editorial Advisory Panel

Leah Hinds — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:32:17 +0000

From a press release issued by Nature Publishing Group on Mach 4, 2010:

Nature Communications today publishes its Editorial Advisory Panel, of over 40 academic experts, on the journal website at www.nature.com/ncomms/eap. A new online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Nature Communications will launch in April 2010.

The panel reflects Nature Communications broad scope, with acknowledged experts in [...]

19th NC Serials Conference to be held April 15

Leah Hinds — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:28:41 +0000

The 19th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Sciences, will be held April 15, 2010 at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

The 2010 conference theme is “New Tricks for Old Dogs: Serials Control and Access.”

For details, see http://nccuslis.org/conted/conted.php.

Akadémiai Kiadó to Preserve E-Journals in Portico

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:18:43 +0000

Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Publishers to preserve its entire collection of 52 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Akadémiai Kiadó furthers its preservation strategy, which includes participation in JSTOR since 2003 on behalf of three journals, and ensures that its e-journals will be [...]

IMLS and SGS Issue Report on the Preservation of World Cultural Heritage

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:17:03 +0000

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Salzburg Global Seminar announce release of the report, “Connecting to the World’s Collections: Making the Case for Conservation and Preservation of Our Cultural Heritage” based on a seminar held in Salzburg, Austria, October 28-November 1, 2009. The seminar, part of the IMLS’s multi-year initiative on [...]

LYRASIS Partners with South Carolina State Library

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:14:54 +0000

LYRASIS announces a collaboration with the South Carolina State Library and DISCUS, South Carolina’s Virtual Library, to provide a customized online collection of current resources for job seekers in the state. The partnership is creating a collection, using the OCLC NetLibrary ® eContent platform, of more than 250 electronic books and reference materials for career [...]

Library, Higher Education Groups Call on FCC to Adopt Net Neutrality Principles

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:13:25 +0000

Eleven library and higher education-related institutions and organizations today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in support of preserving an open Internet.

The groups assert that the Internet faces major threats as a result of deregulation. Internet Service Providers (ISP) have strong incentives to degrade certain Internet services, and new technologies increasingly [...]

Iceland Steering Committee selects ProQuest Central for national provision of electronic resources for next three years

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:12:06 +0000

The Steering Committee of Iceland Consortia for electronic subscriptions has selected ProQuest Central to provide electronic resources nationally for the next three years. On behalf of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Steering Committee is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of resources which can then be accessed by all Icelandic citizens from [...]

EBSCO Publishing Announces Collaboration with MEDITECH and Expanded Partnership with Lexi-Comp

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:08:27 +0000

Making sure patients understand their diagnosis and the follow-up that is required is an essential area of patient care and providing accurate, trustworthy patient education is paramount for hospitals. An agreement between MEDITECH and medical content provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) promises to make sure patients leave the emergency room with evidence-based discharge instructions representing the [...]

Dialog’s Libby Trudell Named 2010 SLA Fellow

Leah Hinds — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:47:47 +0000

Longtime Special Libraries Association (SLA) champion Libby Trudell, vice president of marketing for Dialog, has been named a 2010 SLA Fellow. Fellowship in SLA is presented to members in recognition of past, present and future service to the Association and the profession. No more than five fellows are selected in any given year.

The designation of [...]