News Roundup
1. EBSCO Information Services Launches Redesigned LearningExpress Platform
2. Pensoft’s ARPHA (Authoring, Reviewing, Publishing, Hosting and Archiving) Platform Teams With Hypothesis to Encourage Scientific Discourse Through Annotation
3. Georgia State University Library Joins HathiTrust
4. Amazon Aims to Turn Alexa Into a Real-Time Universal Language Translator (via Yahoo Finance)
5. Oregon Digital Joins Mountain West Digital Library
6. UK: Isobel Hunter appointed as first Chief Executive of SCL (Society of Chief Librarians)
7. SPARC Europe Releases Update Version of “An Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe” Report ||| What’s New
8. Government Publishing: GPO Releases 2017 Annual Report
32 pages; PDF.
9. Penn State University Libraries Launches Short Stories Platform and Announces University-Wide Fiction Contest
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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.