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From the Washington Post: Is it time to change the name of the Government Printing Office to better reflect the times? A key senator and the agency’s director suggested as much last week during a review of the agency’s budget requests. “Perhaps we ought to consider changing your name to something else. It’s not simply […]
From ARL: "New Roles for Research Libraries Digital Curation for Preservation Webcast (Free)
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
Registration Now Open For Free Webcast From an ARL Announcement: To complement the recently released report in the New Roles for New Times series, “Digital Curation for Preservation, (PDF)” the Association of Research Libraries is offering a free and open webcast, “New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation.” The webcast [on April 7, […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
From an EBSCO News Release “A year after acquiring NetLibrary from OCLC, EBSCO Publishing is releasing a preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost. The preview will allow librarians and end users to see how their library’s collection of eBook titles from EBSCO/NetLibrary is being integrated into EBSCOhost, allowing for a more comprehensive and powerful search experience. […]
“Hachette Livre and the French National Library (BnF) have signed a print-on-demand agreement for the publisher to sell through bookshops out-of-copyright works from the BnF’s online library Gallica.” “An initial 15,000 titles have been selected from the 200,000 in Gallica’s catalogue and will be sold from next September. Lightning Source France, a 50-50 joint venture […]
From the JISC 2011 Conference: All Materials Speakers: Michael Jubb, Director, Research Information Network Neil Grindley, Digital Infrastructure Programme Manager – Preservation, JISC Anne Bell, Director of Library Services, University of Warwick “Rethinking Libraries – Innovation in a time of limited resources” The opportunities and drivers have never been stronger for libraries to re-conceive the value […]
From Portico: As of today, participants in the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service will have access to five volumes of Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, formerly published by Taylor & Francis Group. Volumes 16 through 20 (2004-2008) of Annals of Clinical Psychiatry are no longer accessible from Taylor & Francis’ online offering—nor are they available through the […]
From NBC Connecticut: After lawmakers expressed outrage over violent criminals having access to books in prison libraries about murder, rape and other violence, new rules on prison libraries will be written. Officials from the state Department of Correction has begun reviewing the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ policies for library collections and should have new rules […]
From The Next Web: Amazon today crippled the Kindle lending service, Lendle, by revoking the startup’s API access. We covered Lendle last month, a service that enables Kindle users to lend books to other users they don’t personally know. The service makes use of the Kindle’s own legitimate lending feature, and simply facilitates lending for […]
"Cornell Library Takes a Stand With Journal Vendors: Prices Will Be Made Public"
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries
By Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education: Librarians have long complained about the nondisclosure agreements, or NDA’s, that some publishers and vendors require them to sign, making it difficult to share information about how much they pay to subscribe to journal databases and other scholarly material. Some state universities’ libraries have been able to […]
