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Public Library News Roundup: Stories From North Carolina, California, Oregon, Illinois, and Montana
|All of these stories are from the past week. 1. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Proposed tax increase to fund library expansion (via The Daily Tar Heel) 2. Irvine, California: Mayor Pushes For Irvine Library in State of the City Address (via OC Register) 3. Oregon: Multnomah County Library District, OK’d by Voters Last November, Begins […]
1. Grey House Publishing Becomes Publisher of the H.W. Wilson Product Line 2. History of Science, Technology and Medicine™ Now Available from EBSCO Publishing 3. IOP Publishing And Thomson Reuters Collaborate To Manage Significant Growth In Scientific Article Submissions 4. OCLC, ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Discovery
ALA and AAUP Release Statements Supporting Dale Askey and McMaster University in Mellen Press Lawsuit
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
|We will also add links to the following statements to our roundup of materials about the Mellen Press v. Dale Askey/McMaster U. cases. You’ll find it here. From Maureen Sullivan, ALA President: “As president of the American Library Association, I share the deep concern expressed by the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of […]
Roundup: Obama Administration Releases Policy Memo To Increase Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Public Libraries, Roundup
|Very big and exciting news from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. UPDATE: Meredith Schwartz has posted an LJ story about today’s announcement. From The White House Blog: The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy […]
Roundup: 3 Independent Bookstores File Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon, Big 6 Publishers Over Use of DRM
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
|Here’s a media roundup with direct links to some of the coverage of the lawsuit that was first reported yesterday. We’ve also embedded the full text of the complaint filed on February 15, 2013 (Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York) at the bottom of this post. The class-action lawsuit was filed by Posman […]
Here we go again? Earlier this week we posted a roundup of coverage about lawsuits re: Dale Askey and McMaster University. Today, Inside Higher Ed. is reporting about the Canadian Centre for Science and Education sending a letter to Jeffrey Beall, associate professor and scholarly initiatives librarian at the University of Colorado Denver saying they have […]
Press Roundup: Mellen Press Libel Lawsuits vs. Librarian and McMaster University
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports, Roundup
|There has been a lot of coverage in the past week regarding two lawsuits filed by Edwin Mellen Press that names Dale Askey, Associate University Librarian, Library & Learning Technologies at McMaster University and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario as defendants. The suit stems from a blog post by Askey on his Bibliobrary.net blog in […]
Roundup #2: Slide Presentations from ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries, Roundup
|More presentations from Seattle. Roundup #1 can be found here. 1. Free Workshop on Reference Technologies Slide Presentations Include: Social Media – challenges, benefits and best practices Unleashing FIU Librarians from the Reference Desk: Roving Reference in a large urban public library system LibAnswers at WSU: Eliminating Service Silos 2. Preservation Metadata Interest Group (IAPM-IG) […]
Roundup: Bookish Launches New Book Discovery/Recommendation Database
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources, Roundup
|Bookish a new site/book recommendation database went live yesterday. Here’s a roundup of some press coverage. But first, some background about the company and the services they offer. The Bookish Mission Statement Here at Bookish, our mission is to engage more readers with more books, more authors and with one another. So, start discovering and […]
Roundup #1: Slide Presentations from ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Roundup
|Here’s the first of several roundups with links to slides from various ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013 presentations. We will begin with slides (all .pptx) from three ALCTS events. ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Program Description and Speaker Bios Creating a metadata portal and workflows for a digital preservation repository Sandy Card Binghamton University Libraries Incompatible or […]