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News & Announcements 6/15/13

gilsont — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:25:34 +0000

A Springer project for college and small university ebook growth; Swets refines access management workflows; a Wikidata and authority control video; ALA releases digital literacy recommendations; also signs open letter to Congress on civil rights; F1000Research joins OASPA and COPE and is listed in DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO; ASIS&T and DCMI announce management partnership; EBSCO Discovery [...]

ATG Star of the Week: Susan Stearns, VP, Strategic Partnerships, Ex Libris Group

gilsont — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:15:10 +0000

Name: Susan Stearns
Position: VP, Strategic Partnerships Organization: Ex Libris Group
Email: susan.stearns@exlibrisgroup.com
Website: exlibrisgroup.com

Born and Lived: Born in Urbana, Illinois. Lived in Illinois, Virginia, and London as well as now in Massachusetts.

Professional Career and Activities: Librarian at Virginia Union and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and Corporate Librarian [...]

ATG “I wonder” Wednesday: Are you considering, or have you already integrated your reference collection into the circulating collection?

gilsont — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:04:02 +0000

News & Announcements 6/13/13

gilsont — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:54:37 +0000

Apple claims they have 20% of the eBook market; Founders Online project goes public; SAGE Journals Platform now offers RSM journals; ResearchGate gets funding for open science initiatives; Bishop Grosseteste University goes live with OCLC’s WorldShare; AGU and Wiley partner on OA journal; Bing to Power Siri’s Web Search; and NoveList and TLC Expand Relationship.

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Conferences, Meetings and Webinars 6/12/13

gilsont — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:33:54 +0000

Professional Growth and Development opportunities from ARL; ALCTS; the Coalition for Network Information; ALA Editions and Information Today and SLA

Using LibQUAL+® Effectively and Strategically: ARL to Offer Workshop Oct. 22–23 in Atlanta“ARL will offer a workshop about acting on LibQUAL+ survey results, led by Martha Kyrillidou, ARL director of statistics [...]

ATG Book of the Week: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949

gilsont — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:29:23 +0000

Title: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 Editor: Julia Eichelberger Cloth: ISBN 978-1-61703-187-8; $45 Imprint: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Generally we reserve our book of the week for titles related to libraries and publishing but we couldn’t resist posting this book by a member of the [...]

People in the News 6/12/13

gilsont — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:37:02 +0000

Rebecca T. Miller Named Editorial Director of Library Journals

Library Journal has announced that “Rebecca T. Miller (rmiller@mediasourceinc.com), Editor-in-Chief of School Library Journal, has accepted the position of Editorial Director of Library Journals, effective immediately. She will serve as Editor-in-Chief for both Library Journal and School Library Journal. Michael Kelley, previously Editor-in-Chief [...]

Multigrain Discussion: If Books Are Dead, Why Is Barnes & Noble Stock So Hot?

gilsont — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:11:23 +0000

Good Question! Why are shares of B&N returning 34.5 percent over the last 12 months if books, their main stock in trade, are on life support? There is no denying that on the surface things are not looking good for the bookstore giant as it continues to suffer revenue shortfalls and negative operating cash [...]

Conference, Meetings and Webinars 6/11/13

gilsont — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:14:20 +0000

Professional growth & development opportunities from the North Carolina Library Association, ALCTS; OCLC; the Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community and Research Data Alliance and the Open University Library in partnership with OCLC Research and Jisc.

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … Just the Facts, Ma’am! Getting Started with the U.S. [...]

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dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:33:44 +0000

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Selections from The Scholarly Kitchen’s Dessert Cart

dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:31:09 +0000

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Traditionally, the closing plenary session of SSP meetings features a summary of topics of interest that have been discussed on SSP’s blog, The Scholarly Kitchen. Kent Anderson, CEO/Publisher of the Journal of Bone [...]

News You Need to Start the Week

gilsont — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:29:46 +0000

Universities and libraries propose Share: Shared Access Research Ecosystem; Self-Published eBooks are 12% of the digital market; Elsevier announces digital services upgrade; Gale, The Library of Michigan and CIVICTechnologies partner to provide business resources; HarperCollins announces BookSmash app contest; Europeana 1989: we made history - project launched in Warsaw; and SydneyPLUS, Inmagic, Cuadra, Questor and [...]

What Publishers Need to Know About Discovery Services

dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:02:41 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

Jay Henry from Ringgold led off this session with a discussion of web scale discovery and why it matters, the role of metadata, and an appeal for standards. An improved search interface has always been [...]

People in the News 6/10/13

gilsont — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:29:20 +0000

A New Head Chef in the Scholarly Kitchen

In today’s Scholarly Kitchen post, Kent Anderson announced that as he begins a one-year term as the President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), he is resigning “my position as Editor-in-Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen. I will hand the reins over to David Crotty, [...]

More Job Bank 6/9/13

gilsont — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:10:52 +0000

Three Positions – Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Science Librarian Social Science Librarian Humanities and Fine Arts Librarian

Responsibilities: Under the general direction of the Associate Dean for Information Services and responsive to input from the Dean of Library Affairs, all three positions provide reference, instruction, [...]

Job Bank – 6/9/13

gilsont — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:10:01 +0000

Career Opportunities at: the College of Charleston; Oregon State University; and the University of Kansas (two positions)

Dean of Libraries – College of Charleston

The College of Charleston, located in Charleston, SC, seeks a Dean of Libraries who is a visionary leader to develop and promote the libraries’ significant contributions to the intellectual [...]

An International Update on Policy and Research Shifts: The Friday Plenary Session

dthawkins — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:18:52 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

This panel featured representatives from the UK, Latin America, Japan, and the Middle East answering questions on policy shifts in their regions and emerging opportunities for publishers. Toby Green, the moderator, from the Organization for [...]

Marketing to Individuals: Insights from Pioneers

dthawkins — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:47:56 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

Demand-driven acquisition of electronic content (particularly e-books) has resulted in the growth in sales of single titles to consumers, which is a different sales model for publishers. This session discussed some of the issues.

Till [...]

News & Announcements 6/7/13

gilsont — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:57:15 +0000

Amazon executives testify in eBook Price Fixing Case; Plagiarizing across Europe; CrossRef launches FundRef to track scholarly funding; Copyright Clearance Center teams up with HFA; Multiple EBSCO press releases; Summon Discovery expands Japanese-language content with NetAdvance; and DeepDyve launches innovative 5-Minute Freemium service

Amazon Executives Testify in eBook Price Fixing Case

GalleyCat reports that [...]

People in the News 6/7/13

gilsont — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:21:39 +0000

ProQuest Names Allana Mayer 2013 Summit Scholarship Winner

– ProQuest, an information firm central to global research, has awarded the 2013 Roger K. Summit Scholarship to Allana Mayer, an MLIS student at McGill University in Montreal. The scholarship – named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing online information [...]