Industry News Roundup (Items from OLH, DPLA, ProQuest, NFAIS, EBSCO, and OCLC)
1. Coates Library, Trinity University Joins of the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy System
Note: During February Dickinson College, Baylor University, Washington U. in St. Louis, Bethel University, Tufts University, and KU Leven in Belgium also joined the consortium.
2. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Releases Version 4.0 of Metadata Application Profile
3. ProQuest Platform is COUNTER Compliant For 2015
4. NFAIS Selects OCLC’s Mary Sauer-Games as New Board of Directors President (via NFAIS)
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Mary Sauer-Games begins term as President of NFAIS Board of Directors (via OCLC)
5. EBSCO and ATLA Announce 11 Separate Thematic Series of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection
6. LIBROS Academic Library Consortium Now Live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services
Filed under: Academic Libraries, EBSCO, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, 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.