News Roundup
1. MIT President Sends Letter to Faculty Regarding the Future of MIT OpenCourseWare (via MIT News)
2. Students Can Now Save on Their Student Loans with Amazon Prime (via Reuters) ||| Additional Details (via Wells Fargo)3
3. Google Play Books Launches “Bubble Zoom”, a New Way to Read Digital Comics on Phones and Tablets (via Official Android Blog) ||| Coverage via The Verge
4. Dictionary.com Updated with 300+ New Words, Revises Over 1,700 Entries (via Dictionary.com)
5. Oxford Dictionaries Adds Words: “Upstander, Turtle Island, and Tink: an Oxford Dictionaries Update” (via Oxford Dictionaries Blog)
6. Atypon Makes Significant Enhancements to Its Online Publishing Platform
7. Duke University Libraries Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Twentieth-Century Folk Music (via Duke Libraries Magazine)
Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, 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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