News Roundup
1. Tribune Media to Sell Gracenote for $560 Million / Metadata Company Gracenote Acquired by Nielsen
Note: Tribune Acquired Gracenote from Sony Three Years Ago For $170 Million
2. Council on Library Resources (CLIR) Welcome Four New Board Members
3. Kansas City Public Library Thankful for Community Support After Recent Swastika Vandalism
4. LexisNexis Announces Plan to Retire Lexis.com Over the Next Twelve Months
5. Digital Preservation: Twelve Additional Publishers Begin Working with CLOCKSS
6. Why Universities Need Scholarly Communications Experts: An Op/Ed by Professor Pamela Samuelson (via Authors Alliance)
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries, Roundup, Scholarly Communications
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.