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November 17, 2016 by Gary Price

News Roundup

November 17, 2016 by Gary Price

1. REPORT From W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality
Held October 19-20, 2016 in San Jose, California.
2. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Receives Grant to Digitize Historic Archives of Photographs
3. Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Acquires Nearly 1,500 Film Prints for Preservation (via Globe and Mail)
4. Russian ISPs Told to Block LinkedIn (via IDG News Service)
5. EBSCO: American Doctoral Dissertations Now Includes Access to Full Text and Expanded Coverage of 20th Century
6. ProQuest: Eastern Michigan University’s Library Will Be First to Integrate Alma and Summon
7. CHORUS Membership Grows to 50 with Addition of GeoScienceWorld
8. UCI Libraries completes NEH-funded Project: “Piloting Linked Open Data for Artists’ Books” (via LibraryTechnology.org)

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