April 11, 2023 by Gary Price
Chicago Libraries Now Offer Mental Health Services, Therapists (via CBS Chicago How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World (via WIRED) Lyrasis Announces Sessions For Second Annual LyrOpen Fair New Steve Jobs Archive Ebook Now Available as a Free Download (via 9to5Mac) Oklahoma State University to Adopt the FOLIO Library Services Platform With EBSCO FOLIO Tennessee Bills Targeting […]
April 3, 2023 by Gary Price
GALILEO Picks FOLIO as Its New Library Services Platform (via GALILEO) Global 5G Connections Increase 76% Annually and Now Reaches 1.05 Billion (via 5G Americas) How to Build a Publishers’ Catalogue (via COPIM) New Self-Archiving Policy Enables Immediate Open Access for University of Cambridge Researchers (via U. of Cambridge) Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Publishes 2022 […]
February 21, 2023 by Gary Price
Critics Blast ‘Absurd’ Rewrites to Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books (via NBC News) EBSCO Information Services Joins ReShare Community Five UK Higher Ed Organizations Release Joint Statement of Support for the Sector’s Rejection of the Springer Nature Proposal (via Russell Group) Hachette et al. v. Internet Archive et al Oral Argument in Connection with Motions for […]
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February 14, 2023 by Gary Price
EBSCO Information Services Launches FinancialFit Helper Systems Launches kOS 1.0 Preview (via HS) Library Futures Releases Policy Paper: Digital Ownership for Libraries and the Public New Frog Species Named After Fantasy Author J.R.R. Tolkien (via Pensoft) Newly Processed Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress (via LC) Springer Nature Acquires Innovative Writing Aid, TooWrite ||| […]
December 7, 2022 by Gary Price
ALA Praises Introduction of Workforce Legislation (via ALA) AM and Big Ten Academic Alliance Sign Landmark Access Deal (via BTAA) arXiv Welcomes Stephanie Orphan as Program Director (via arXiv( EBSCO Information Services Introduces BiblioGraph (via EBSCO) European Book Publishing Statistics 2021 (via FEP) FCC Commits Another $84M for School, Library Connectivity (via MeriTalk) Springer Nature […]
October 31, 2022 by Gary Price
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases Statement on Digital FDLP Task Force Draft Report Coherent Digital Reaches Agreement with Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Will Be Founding Member of Africa Commons Project FCC Launches New Pilot Broadband Program for Tribal Libraries (via 21st Century State) IFLA Announces Settlement Agreement with Gerald Leitner (via IFLA) “Opinion: […]
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September 29, 2022 by Gary Price
From an EBSCO Announcement: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2023 Serials Price Projection Report. This year’s report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be (before any currency impact) in the range of three to five percent for individual e-journal titles, two to three percent for […]
September 21, 2022 by Gary Price
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has awarded a major contract to further develop and implement a new, open-source IT platform that will revolutionize how the Library’s vast physical and digital collections are managed and made accessible for the public, Congress, Library employees and other institutions. The new Library Collections Access Platform […]
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August 31, 2022 by Gary Price
Latest Entry US Postal Service Celebrates Centennial of Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s Birth With New Forever Stamps Announcing Our Programme for Europeana 2022 (via Europeana) Event Report: CoNOSC National Policymakers and Data Stewards (via SPARC Europe) Finland: Springer Nature Announces Fourth Transformative Agreement for Its Flagship Nature Titles (via SN) Minnesota Historical Society Repatriates Native […]
July 27, 2022 by Gary Price
ACRL 2023 Keynote Speakers Announced A Philly-Area Woman Returned Books 30 Years Overdue, but There Was No Penalty — the Free Library Is Fine Free (via Billy Penn) Every Library Card a Miracle: Rural and Small-Town Libraries are a Boon to Society (via The Daily Yonder) GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO Now Available Through Talis […]