June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From an IMLS Announcement: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today 24 awards totaling $11,227,761 matched with 25,398,758 of non-federal funds for Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grants. IMLS received 119 applications requesting $55,826,525 in funds. “We know that the most valuable asset of any library is its staff, and we […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
Congrats to the entire Bibliocommons team in YYZ (Toronto). From a NYPL Announcement: The New York Public Library has partnered with Toronto-based software company Bibliocommons to completely transform its current online catalog, making it easier to discover the Library’s vast collections while also giving users the power to create reading lists, rate the latest books, […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From the University of California Riverside News Room: California’s weekly newspapers will be preserved in a searchable archive as UC Riverside expands its massive California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) to include the community chronicles of political, business and social history. Born Digital, a project of UCR’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, launched in the […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From the NARAtions Blog: As you search the Online Public Access (OPA) prototype catalog, we now invite you to tag any archival description, as well as person and organization name records, with the keywords or labels that are meaningful to you. Our hope is that crowdsourcing tags will enhance the content of our online catalog […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
“Library Journal Announces Staff Changes” (via LJ) Congrats to all. Two congrats and kudos “shout outs” to a couple of INFOdocket pals who have new positions at LJ. First, Josh Hadro has been promoted into the newly created position of Executive Editor, Digital Products, effective July 1. Josh has been with LJ since 2008. Second, […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From LAC: Library and Archives Canada today marked the official opening of the new Nitrate Film Preservation Centre in the west end of Ottawa. The Centre, located on the Communications Research Centre Canada campus, was constructed on time and within budget, resulting in measurable long-term benefits and savings. The “state-of-the-art” facility features a range of […]
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June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From an Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that CrossRef has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its bibliographic and reference metadata. The agreement, which was initially announced as an “agreement in principle” in November 2010, will add bibliographic data with CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for more than 46 million records from […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
From a ProQuest News Release: Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products, today announced their intention that the full-text of SciVerse ScienceDirect content will be indexed within the Summon web-scale discovery service. Researchers will be able to search the full text of […]
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June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
Kudos to the always experimental and forward thinking O’Reilly for going DRM-Free. Will other publishers follow O’Reilly’s lead? From OverDrive: OverDrive is announcing that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook catalog will be available to OverDrive’s channel partners, […]
June 21, 2011 by Gary Price
The overview and links to the complete report are below. We e want to call your attention to a few useful resources that might be useful but could be overlooked. 1. Statistical Summaries For All 50 States and the District of Columbia are Available HTML (Separate Document For Each State and DC) PDF (One PDF […]