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by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

In February, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy “directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account [...]

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Icons of San Francisco

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    By Donald T. Hawkins      About Me     Email Me

I had a little spare time before the conference begins this afternoon, so I went out and took some pictures of well known sights in San Francisco–a wonderful city to visit!

And now, it’s off [...]

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People in the News 6/5/13

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Axel Kaschte joins OCLC as Product Strategy Director

OCLC announced today that Axel Kaschte has joined OCLC as Product Strategy Director, EMEA, with immediate effect. Dr. Kaschte has 20 years of experience working with library management systems and the library community throughout Europe.

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Department of Justice opening statement U.S. vs. Apple et al; China approves Penguin-Random House merger; CHORUS tries to address (OSTP) public access memorandum;  LRP Publications acquires Thompson’s Education Library;  Elsevier provides access to Reaxys for five Czech Universities; Kudos partners with Taylor and Francis & the Royal Society of Chemistry; Net Neutrality in E;urope; and [...]

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Caught My Eye 6/4/13

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Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community appeared in ACRLog and is a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN.  Sue recounts her experience as the first librarian to serve as Chair of her Faculty Assembly and in the process touches on issues [...]

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Title: Library 2020: Today’s Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library Editor: Joseph Janes Paperback: 978-0-8108-8714-5 , $45 ebook: 978-0-8108-8715-2, $44.99
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013

 

“Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria [...]

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