News Roundup
1. Pinterest is Acquiring Instapaper
2. Learn a Language at the Library: bibliotheca Partners with Living Language (Penguin Random House Imprint) as Exclusive Distributor of Digital Subscriptions for Public Library Market
3. These Charts Show That Pokemon Go Is Already in Decline (via Bloomberg) & People are Quickly Losing Interest in Pokémon Go (via The Verge)
4. Forecast: US Snapchat Users Will Increase by Double-Digit Percentages This Year and Next (via eMarketer)
5. Metadata/Semantic Web: Papers, Posters,and Data from the VIVO Conference 2016 (via OpenVIVO)
The conference took place last week in Denver.
6. Google and Microsoft Integration at Gale
7. Report: Library Charged $1.5 Million for Journal Archive (via Urban Milwaukee)
Note: The library did not purchase the database for the $1.5 million price.
Filed under: Gale, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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