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Columbia University Libraries Receives First Installment of $1 Million Grant to Preserve Global Archives of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From CUL: Columbia University Libraries has received the first of a series of grants from the International Fellowships Fund (IFF) – totaling $1 million over seven years – to serve as the permanent home for the archives of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP). The collection includes both paper and digital archives and will […]
Crowdfunded eBooks: Unglue.it Is Live!
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|As we noted on Tuesday, Eric Hellman and his team (including librarian Andromeda Yelton) were planning to launch their Unglue.it crowdfunded ebook platform today. The platform is now live! Here’s the official announcement along with coverage from Matt Ennis at LJ and our post from Tuesday that includes background and a link to a recent […]
Mellon Foundation Awards Penn St. University Librarian $143,000 to Study Personal Scholarly Archiving
Academic Libraries, Awards, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|From PSU Live: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $143,000 to Penn State to investigate how faculty create and manage personal information collections. Led by Associate Librarian Ellysa Stern Cahoy and Associate Professor of Science Education Scott McDonald, the 15-month ethnographic study will examine in detail how faculty save, share, cite […]
Congratulations to all of the winners! From the FEDLINK Announcement: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) has announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship, which recognize the many innovative ways that federal libraries, librarians and library technicians fulfill the information demands of government, business and scholarly communities and the American public. […]
Massachusetts Awards Statewide Online Database Contracts to Three Vendors
Academic Libraries, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Gale, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
|From the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) and the Massachusetts Library System (MLS): The MBLC [has] awarded contracts to Gale Cengage, Inc., ProQuest, Inc. and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. for statewide online magazine, newspaper, e-reference and encyclopedia databases to begin on July 1, 2012. [Clip] Among the resources are 22 periodical, biographical, e-reference and news […]
Singapore Airlines, one of the world’s great air carriers, is partnering with the National Library Board of Singapore to provide a larger selection of audiobooks to the airlines in-flight entertainment system. From Today’s Announcement: Customers on board Singapore Airlines flights can now look forward to a wider selection of audio books on KrisWorld, the Airline’s […]
Loveland (Colorado) Public Library Wins Award For Its Use of Cloud Computing
Awards, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|Congrats! From a Wyse Technologies News Release: Wyse Technology today announced that IDG’s Computerworld Honors program has named Colorado’s Loveland Public Library as a 2012 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. [Clip] Loveland Public Library is using Wyse cloud client computing solutions to […]
Canadian Library Association Announces 2012 Award Winning Books for Children and Young Adults
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Publishing
|From Canadian Library Association Announcements: 1. CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Winner (PDF) From a superb collection of children’s literature produced by Canadian authors and publishers in 2011, the Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliotheques (CLA/ACB) has selected its 2012 winning title for the Book of the Year for Children Award. This […]
The NPR Library Wins ALA/Information Today Library of the Future Award
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|Congratulations to Lara Soto-Barra and all of our friends at the NPR Library located only a few miles from us here in D.C. Score one for media libraries and librarians! From ALA: The American Library Association has named the Artemis training project from the NPR library the 2012 winner of the ALA/Information Today, Inc. Library […]
Asking Complex Questions: "New Search Tool to Unlock Wikipedia"
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|A new plug-in for use with Wikipedia data named “Swipe” will be demonstrated at the WWW conference next month. Until then, here’s some reading and viewing material about the technology. You have to wonder if Wolfram|Alpha is working on something similar utilizing their database? From New Scientist: Called Swipe – loosely short for “searching Wikipedia […]