March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From KHON-TV: The Hawaii State Public Library System is asking lawmakers for money to hire more security guards. If approved, all 50 public libraries statewide would have at least one security guard on duty during regular business hours. [Clip] If the library system’s $387,000 budget request passes, there will be guards at every library in […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From the Canadian Research Knowledge Network: The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is proud to launch the Canadian National Digital Heritage Index (CNDHI), an index of digitized collections from across Canada with the goal of creating a single, current list of all Canadian digitization projects. This national index, the first of its kind in Canada, […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
Released today by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa. From the Introduction of the Plan by Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada: …LAC developed this three-year plan as a roadmap for its activities until 2019. The plan is based on consultations with clients, partners and employees. From June to December 2015 we […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
The following article (accepted for publication, preprint) will be published in the March 2017 issue of College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Title Academic Libraries and Copyright: Do Librarians Really Have the Required Knowledge? Authors Juan-Carlos Fernández-Molina University of Granada, Spain João Batista E. Moraes State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil José Augusto C. Guimarães State […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
UPDATE April 1 2016 Report: U.S. Institutions Awarded Most Doctorates Ever Recorded in 2014 The 54,070 research doctorate degrees awarded by U.S. institutions in 2014 represent the highest total ever recorded in the 58-year history of the Survey of Earned Doctorates, (SED) an annual census of research degree recipients. The number of science and engineering […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From The Copenhagen Post: The Danish Royal Library [Det Kongelige Bibliotek] will be forced to cut 43 out of 322 positions, trim its opening hours and completely close some smaller reading rooms. Library director Erland Kolding Nielsen said that the cuts are a direct result of austerity measures imposed by the government. [Clip] The library is […]
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March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From a British Library’s “Digital Scholarship” Blog Post by Sarah Cole, the current Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence at BL: Poetic Places is a free app for iOS and Android devices and the main outcome of my work as Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the British Library, funded by CreativeWorks London. Poetic Places brings poetic depictions of places into the […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
1. eBooks Providers: Illinois Heartland Library System Moving From OverDrive to 3M Cloud Library Tomorrow (via The Southern Illinoisan) 2. Colorado State University Selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo 3. OCLC Signs Long Term Agreement with National Library of the Netherlands ( Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) to Serve Public Libraries 4. Ebooks: ProQuest Adds Titles From […]
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March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From The NY Times: When Damaris Triana, then 8, lost several “Little Critter” books that she had borrowed for her sister, the library here fined her $101 — including $40 in processing fees — a bill that was eventually turned over to an agency to collect from her parents. The $101 is a small part […]
March 31, 2016 by Gary Price
From MarketWatch: So much money has poured into Audible.com’s New Jersey headquarters since the company started selling Harry Potter audiobooks in November, that the wizarding bank Gringott’s may need to open a Newark branch. Customers purchased more than one million copies of the audiobooks in just four months, the Amazon subsidiary told MarketWatch. That revenue […]