From ProQuest: The award-winning Vogue Archive—every page from every issue of American Vogue from 1892 to today—will be available for free trial on ProQuest’s websites and online industry news sources around the world from February 2 through February 16. The new product, which puts 120 years of fashion and culture online within fingertip reach, has [...]
U.S. Congress: THOMAS Adds Direct Links to House Committee Hearings
Filed by on February 2, 2012
From the In Custodia Legis Blog: In the same Current Activity box in the top right of the THOMAS homepage where we added (app) after Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest, there is now a link for House Committee Video. There is a list of committees to select from. On a committee page, either the live stream will [...]
PW: "Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits to E-Book Lending"
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From a Publisher’s Weekly Article by Andrew Albanese: Never has a price increase been such good news for libraries. At a meeting with ALA leaders this week in New York, Random House officials said the “terms of sale” for Random House e-books to libraries will change, with a price increase coming. But the publisher reiterated [...]
Article: "Seattle Libraries: No Sleeping or Eating Allowed, But Porn-Watching OK"
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From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Public Library has a long list of rules on things you can’t do in the library, to ensure the “comfort and safety” of staff and patrons. You can’t eat, sleep, look like you’re sleeping, be barefoot, be too stinky, talk too loudly, have a ringing cell phone, or make [...]
New Document from NIH: Public Access Policy Implications
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Direct to Document (2 pages; PDF) Sections Include: What is At Stake Under the Public Access Policy Support from the Publishers No Harm to Publishers in Evident PubMed Central (PMC) Key Facts About PMC See Also: Training/Communications from NI Public Access Policy Web Site See Also: Alliance For Taxpayer Access
Reference: New Database: See Who's Donating to Super PACs
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The database is provided by California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Note: Database is National in Scope Direct to Database Data can be downloaded in CSV | XLS | JSON formats. Data Fields Recipient Donor Name Occupation Employer City State Amount Data See Also: Media moguls headline Calif. super PAC giving In all, [...]
Standards: NISO Publishes White Paper on the Future Standardization Needs for Electronic Resource Management Systems
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From NISO: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of Making Good on the Promise of ERM: A Standards and Best Practices Discussion Paper. This publication is the outcome of the NISO Electronic Resource Management (ERM) Data Standards and Best Practices Project, a successor to the Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resources Management Initiative [...]
New Website Offers Window Into Daily Life in Civil War Tennessee (Digitized Images and More)
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From Vanderbilt University: Little-known stories of how Civil War-era Tennesseans lived their lives away from the battlefield are now accessible on the Shades of Gray and Blue website, which includes digitized images of historical art and other cultural material. The unique educational website, which includes contributions from scholars across Tennessee, was created through a collaborative [...]
Amigos Library Services and Missouri Library Network Corporation Announce Agreement to Explore Merger
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From the Announcement: Amigos Library Services, a leading library membership organization based in Dallas, and the Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC), a similar St. Louis-based library membership organization, today announced that they have entered into a working agreement to explore merging operations. If the organizations merge, Amigos will be the largest library consortium west of [...]
NFAIS Releases Draft Version of "Discovery Services Code of Practice"
Filed by on February 2, 2012
New from NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services). Comments about the draft are welcome. Please submit to NFAIS by March 16, 2012. From the NFAIS Web Site: NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, benefiting not only its member organizations, but also the global [...]
