News Roundup
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)
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation, 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.