MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2012
New Online Research Resource: Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) Released By The Beacham Group
Associations and Organizations, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Reports
|via E-Mail: The Beacham Group, LLC, (formerly Beacham Publishing, Inc.) has devoted eight years to exhaustive exploration of the topic and created Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) – one of the world’s most comprehensive research centers for faculty, scholars, students, government and defense professionals, as well as the general public. Features TRAC’s profiles of […]
EBSCO Adds More than 1 Million Company Profiles to Business Source Complete
EBSCO, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|From EBSCO: EBSCO Publishing has added detailed company information for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies, along with the addition of a Company View feature to Business Source Complete. The new Company View feature provides robust company information with well-organized links to business articles, profiles and news stories. Company […]
UPDATE: The plan that’s described in the post and primary document below was approved last night (February 27, 2012) by the Toronto Public Library Board. via Torontoist: At its meeting tonight, the TPL board will consider a proposal to create an advertising policy for Toronto’s libraries. The reason such a policy doesn’t already exist is […]
From the The San Francisco Examiner: A man set fire to a stack of pamphlets in San Francisco’s main library branch in the unit block of Grove Street on Sunday, damaging cassette tapes, chairs and computers, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said. The fire alarm was triggered at 3:37 p.m. The fire was set in the […]
From the BL: The British Library welcomes the publication of the DCMS [Dept. of Culture, Media, and Sport] consultation, “Consultation on the Draft Legal Deposit Libraries (non-print works) Regulations 2013” and the commitment to deliver regulations for non-print legal deposit. Since the introduction of the 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act, the Legal Deposit Libraries have […]
Center for Research Libraries Expands Online Legal Collections
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From CRL: The partnership between CRL and the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) has entered its second year. This partnership yields several benefits for CRL libraries. LLMC is digitizing law-related collections from CRL, and identifying prospective content for digitization to serve CRL libraries’ research priorities. And the recent cataloging of CRL’s extensive collection of Foreign […]
First, the news earlier today that Elsevier was pulling its support for the RWA. Now, this news from Alexander Howard: “RIP Research Works Act” I just received a joint statement from Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, regarding H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act. Here’s the too long/didn’t […]
From The Guardian: Pearson has reported a 72% surge in pre-tax profits to £1.15bn for 2011, with ebook sales at Penguin more than doubling and profits at FT Group, home to the Financial Times, up by about a quarter. [Clip] Total revenues across the group, which includes book publisher Penguin and educational holdings, grew 4% […]
Research Paper: Analyzing Tag Distributions in Folksonomies for Resource Classification
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, Resources
|Title Analyzing Tag Distributions in Folksonomies for Resource Classification Authors Arkaitz Zubiaga, Raquel Martınez, and Victor Fresno NLP & IR Group @ UNED (National Distance Education University) Madrid, Spain Source Via arXiv Paper was Presented at KSEM 2011, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management December, 2011 Abstract Recent research has shown the […]
OverDrive Announces Exclusive Deal to Distribute Harry Potter eBooks to Public and School Libraries
|From an OverDrive Announcement: Pottermore, home of the Harry Potter eBooks created by J.K. Rowling and partnered by Sony, announced today it has entered into an exclusive worldwide eBook and digital audiobook distribution agreement with OverDrive for public and school libraries. Under the terms of the agreement, OverDrive will manage hosting and digital fulfillment for libraries for the Harry Potter collection of eBooks and digital audiobooks […]