September 16, 2016 by Gary Price

News Roundup

September 16, 2016 by Gary Price

News

Acquisitions: New-York Historical Society Acquires Sports Icon Billie Jean King Archive

HTML5: Call For Review: HTML 5.1 Proposed Recommendation Published (via W3C)

Images: 20,000 Architectural Images Made Available by Columbia GSAPP Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and Avery Library Partnership with Artstor

Literacy: Worldreader Expanding Into Haiti (via SF Chronicle)

National Libraries: National Library of Scotland Opens a New Location in Glasgow

Open Access: Public Library of Science (PLOS) Appoints Dr. Joerg Heber Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE

Scholarly Publishing: University of Texas at Austin Joins Open Library of Humanities

Textbooks: IU eTexts Initiative Rapidly Growing, Surpasses $10 Million (via Indiana University)
See Also: “Indiana’s Grand Textbook Compromise” (via Inside Higher Ed)

Web Site: ALSC Selects Eleven More Great Websites for Kids (via ALA)

Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup

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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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