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LOCKSS Alliance Libraries Preserve 11,000 New Volumes In First Half Of 2011
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Publishing
|From the LOCKSS Website: In the first six months of 2011, participating LOCKSS Program libraries preserved content from major partner publishers such as PNAS, Springer, Emerald, and the JBJS. The LOCKSS Alliance provides a full management digital preservation program. Libraries use LOCKSS to build and preserve local collections for future scholars and publishers, thus separating […]
Statistics: "Daily Deluge of Digital Data Expected to Get Even Worse"
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|Resources From EMC.com (Sponsors of the Report) 1. Summary/News Release/Findings 2. Infographic: The Digital Universe Study 3. Infographic: Data Management Increase, Need for IT Workers From a San Francisco Chronicle/Bloomberg Article: A study released [on Monday] quantifies how quickly the digital universe is expanding. The world’s information is doubling every two years, with an astonishing […]
Preliminary Version: Transforming Libraries Portal (From American Libraries Association)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|Direct to Preliminary Version of ALA’s Transforming Libraries Portal. You can share feedback by using this contact page. Some resources are organized by library type (Public Libraries; School Libraries; and Academic Libraries). These pages contain a links to articles; books; conferences; general resources, tools, etc. that discuss library transformation issues. Other resources are organized by […]
The Dublin Core 2011 Conference is Scheduled to Take Place in The Hague, September 22-23. From the Dublin Core Web Site: The organizing committee of DC-2011 has published the preliminary program of the event. On Wednesday 21 September there will be a full day of Tutorials alongside a special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. […]
Rollout Underway: ebrary Material Now Discoverable and Accessible Using ProQuest Platform
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From a ProQuest News Release: ProQuest’s all-new platform is rolling out in libraries around the world, bringing a flexible technological architecture that allows users to dive deeper into multiple content sources in multiple formats– wherever that information may reside. With the new connecting technology, one search leads users to ebrary’s e-book content that’s side-by-side with […]
Info Industry Briefs: News from Gale, Springer, OCLC, AAP, OverDrive, Ristech, B&T
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Gale Expands Three Acclaimed Digital Collections Springer launches SpringerReference.com Hat Tip/Thanks: Law Librarian Blog and No Shelf Required University of New Brunswick Libraries first in Canada to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services American Academy of Pediatrics Makes Content From Entire eBook Collection Available to Institutions With New Subscription Model OverDrive Adds Simultaneous […]
Just Released: 2011 Best Practices for Government Libraries Now Available
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Elsevier, Government Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Reports, Special Libraries
|We mentioned several few weeks ago that LexisNexis Info Pro Consultant Marie Kaddell was in the process of putting the 2011 edition of the publication together. She’s completed editing and assembling the report and earlier today it was published online and is now ready to download (286 pages; PDF; Free) Marie has done a superb […]
OverDrive's Direct Involvement With Today's JK Rowling/Harry Potter News
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic
|It’s likely that you’ve read, seen and/or discussed today’s JK Rowling/Harry Potter news by this hour. If not, you can take a look here, here (video of announcement and news conference) and here. In a nutshell, Rowling’s new Pottermore web site (launches July 31st) will be home to, “new material about Harry Potter characters, places, […]
Newspaper Digitization: NewsBank Plans to Digitize More Than 100 Years of The Daily Northwestern
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Resources, Special Libraries
|Here’s the story from Northwestern University located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago, IL. Via The Daily Northwestern: Newsbank President and CEO Dan Jones approached Students Publishing Company, which publishes The Daily, about transforming the historical contents of The Daily dating back more than 100 years ago to a digital, searchable […]
"PressForward: A New Project Aims to Rethink Scholarly Communication For the Age of New Media Journalism"
Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From the Nieman Journalism Lab Blog: Today, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University launches PressForward, a new discovery portal and publishing platform for scholarship and intellectual discussion on the web. The big idea of PressForward is to create a digital-first alternative to the cumbersome mechanisms of traditional gatekeepers […]