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Baker & Taylor and B&N Team Up to Make Library Books Available on the Nook
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From a Baker and Taylor News Release (via Paul Biba at TeleRead.com) Baker & Taylor and Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference that the companies will partner to build awareness among NOOK customers that digital books are available for loan from local libraries, and to provide all library patrons […]
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 […]
Combining Lexicon-based and Learning-based Methods for Twitter Sentiment Analysis With the booming of microblogs on the Web, people have begun to express their opinions on a wide variety of topics on Twitter and other similar services. Sentiment analysis on entities (e.g., products, organizations, people, etc.) in tweets (posts on Twitter) thus becomes a rapid and […]
The New Issue (6.2) of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is Now Available Online
Libraries, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
|Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (Vol. 6. No. 2) Direct to Complete Table-of-Contents Here are titles and links to the evidence summaries in this issue: Evidence Summaries Lack of Annual Reports Make it Difficult to Analyze Library Strategic Credibility Abstract PDF Kirsty Thomson 34-35 Users of Virtual Reference Are More Satisfied with the Service […]
From a Sunshine Foundation Post by Daniel Schuman: Legislation that would require copies of congressionally mandated reports to be published online by GPO cleared a major hurdle when it unanimously passed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a business meeting on Wednesday. The “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act,” introduced by Rep. […]
U.S. Education Stats: EduBudgetProject.org Database Relaunches With New Features and Updated Data
Academic Libraries, Awards, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Maps, News, Resources, School Libraries
|From a California Health Foundation Blog Post: A new website*** launched this month weaves together multiple sources of education data into a single place, allowing parents, students and researchers to quickly size up schools. The site, www.EdBudgetProject.org, includes information for both K-12 school districts and colleges. Every school and district page includes financial, demographic and […]
Harvard Library Lab/The Podcast 003: The Digital Citation (David Weinberger Talks to Dan Cohen)
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|Direct to Podcast Blog Post and Link to Audio It’s the Dave & Dan show! David Weinberger from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and Dan Cohen, the Co-Director of the Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University discuss Zotero, the free bibliographic reference manager program that is being developed […]
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 […]
From an OCLC Research Announcement: This report synthesizes the results of two parallel studies of research support services in US and UK universities that OCLC Research and the UK’s Research Information Network undertook last year. The following findings from the joint studies are highlighted in the report: Universities face a diversity of needs and transnational […]