March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From a Blog Post by GovTrack.us Founder/Developer Josh Tauber: Let me get out of the way that there are some things missing from GovTrack 2.0 that were in the old site, and if you need them you can still find them for now at http://legacy.govtrack.us, which continues to run the old site. I apologize for […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From OCLC: OCLC and the CIPE consortium, which comprises 11 university libraries in northern and central Italy, have signed an agreement to load CIPE library records into WorldCat to increase visibility of these Italian collections, and enrich the world’s largest resource for discovery of library materials. The CIPE consortium (Consorzio Interistituzionale per Progetti Elettronici – […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From an ebrary News Release: To help libraries meet the research needs of their entire institutions and maximize their budgets, ebrary® is announcing a strategic new approach to e-book acquisition based on three steps: Transition, Diversify and Streamline™. Libraries that transition a greater percentage of their budgets from print to electronic, diversify acquisition models, and […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From Publisher’s Weekly: Bilbary.com, the international e-bookstore launched by former Waterstones head Tom Coates, went live with a beta test this morning with 340,000 titles from about 2,300 publishers. Coates told PW he expects to add approximately 100,000 titles from agency publishers in the next two to three weeks. By the end of April the […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From a NY Times Announcement: The New York Times Media Group announced today that as of Sunday, March 18, one year after launching paid digital subscriptions, it had approximately 454,000 paid subscribers to its various digital subscription packages, e-readers and replica editions of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune (IHT). The Times […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
Title Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report (March 2012) Authors James L. Mullins, Purdue University Catherine Murray-Rust, Georgia Institute of Technology – Main Campus Joyce L. Ogburn, University of Utah Raym Crow, Chain Bridge Group October Ivins, Ivins e-Content Solutions Allyson Mower, University of Utah Daureen Nesdill, University of Utah Mark Newton, […]
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March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
By Mike Kelley at Library Journal: Even as anxious publishers are hoping to increase friction in the ebook lending experience, librarians have been clamoring for vendors of integrated library systems (ILS) to make e-lending a unified, sleek experience. Rather than navigating their patrons away from the library’s web presence to Balkanized, often commercial, third-party platforms, […]
March 20, 2012 by Gary Price
From American Libraries: ALA President Molly Raphael prepared this summary of the meetings of members of the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group with ebook distributors at the Public Library Association Conference in Philadelphia, as well as a panel she moderated at the Association of American Publishers meeting: At last week’s Public Library Association […]