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Montreal: "Revolutionary Book Scanner Makes Its Debut at McGill Library"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From a News Release: The McGill University Library has “gone digital” with five entry level book2net Spirit book scanners and one larger, more sophisticated Book2Net Kiosk device. In place as of one year ago, the Book2Net Kiosk is stationed in McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections department. Up until recently, this was the only book […]
Full Text of Statement by LC, NAL, and NLM Execs Endorsing Recommendations for Implementation of New RDA
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|From an Announcement: The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the Library of Congress (LC) announce an agreement regarding the implementation of RDA (Resource Description and Access), new cataloging rules published in June 2010 to replace […]
HathiTrust Publishes May 2011 Activities Update
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Direct to Update ||| A PDF Version is Also Available A Few Highlights from the Report: “HathiTrust completed ingest of more than 47,000 volumes contributed by the University of Virginia in May.” “In May, the Communications Working Group continued planning for a HathiTrust Facebook presence, and made progress on the development of new HathiTrust promotional […]
An In-Depth Interview: "Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Many questions about what HathiTrust does, how they do it, and how some use it, etc. they’re very likely going to be answered in this 2800 word interview published by Library Journal. Title: “Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians’ Digital Library” An Interview by Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges […]
Gale and Library Journal Name King County (WA) Library System 2011 Library of the Year
Awards, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Exciting news from the Pacific Northwest! Congratulations to the Entire KCLS Team. From an Gale/Cengage and Library Journal News Release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and Library Journal magazine today announced that King County Library System in Issaquah, Washington has been […]
U.S. Census Bureau — Visualizing Data with OnTheMap for Emergency Management
Data Files, Jobs, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Visualizing Data with OnTheMap for Emergency Management The Census Bureau released OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 today, the beginning of the 2011 hurricane season. Version 2.0 adds floods and wildfires to hurricanes which was released last year. OnTheMap for Emergency Management is a public data tool that provides unique detail on the workforce, for U.S. […]
From an International Telecommunications Union News Release: The report, entitled Broadband: A Platform for Progress, argues: “To optimize the benefits to society, broadband should be coordinated on a countrywide basis, promoting facilities-based competition and with policies encouraging service providers to offer access on fair market terms…efforts should be coordinated across all sectors of industry, administration […]
Jennifer Howard on: "Publishers Grapple With Thorny Issues of Protecting Property and Going Digital"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on some what took place last week at the Association of University Presses Annual Conference in Baltimore. The official theme was “The Next Wave: Toward a Culture of Collaboration.” Many panels examined different partnerships that university presses have lately made a priority. For instance, one session […]
The following info is via a JSTOR web page. You can access the complete page here. Here’s a List if the 9 New Titles Added to JSTOR: American Periodicals (Arts & Sciences VIII) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerperi Coverage: Vol. 1 (Fall, 1991)–Vol. 17, No. 2 (2007) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Ohio State University Press ISSN: 1054-7479 The […]
New: Chart Showing How EBSCO and H.W. Wilson Databases Will Be Combined to Create "Super Databases" & Other Notes
EBSCO, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|EBSCO has shared with us a bit more info about the merger with H.W. Wilson that was announced yesterday. Quotes “Bringing together technology and other operations such as working closely with editorial teams to leverage the best of both worlds across Wilson and EBSCO databases, collaboration among product management teams to enable the development of […]