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News & New Reference/Data Reports Roundup

July 7, 2016 by Gary Price

News
1. Sweden: Springer Signs National Licensing Deal With Universities and Research Institutes
2. UMass Amherst Libraries Receives $600,000 Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for W.E.B. Du Bois Center
3. Podcasts: Libsyn Joins Forces With iHeartMedia for Podcast Distribution Deal to Reach More Than 85 Million iHeart Radio Listeners
4. Ireland: Booksellers Call For Delay to National Library Tender (via The Irish Times)
5. Carl Lennertz Named Executive Director of the Children’s Book Council ||| Coverage from PW
6. White House Releases Privacy Research Plan; Not Everyone Pleased (via BNA)
7. Amazon’s Audible Introduces Podcast Subscription Service
& Amazon’s Audible Goes Long on Short-Term Audio (via NY Times)
8. JSTOR Adds 15 Journals During June 2016
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New Reference/Data Reports and Resources
1. Real Personal Income for States, 2014 (via BEA)
2. New Factsheet: Explosive weapons in populated areas (via International Committee of the Red Cross)

Filed under: Data Files, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Podcasts, Reports, 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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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