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Florida BioDatabase From press release: The Florida BioDatabase (www.floridabiodatabase.com) is a freely accessible public database that tracks the biotechnology industry in Florida along a number of metrics. It follows the industry held standard of defining a biotechnology company according to the Ernst & Young guidelines that include core research and development and involve the use […]
Digital Public Library of America Releases Details About "Beta Sprint"
Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Resources
|The Beta Sprint program was first announced two weeks ago. Today, complete details about the “sprint” were released. From a Berkman Center (Harvard Law School) Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee is delighted to announce today a Beta Sprint that aims to surface innovations that could play a part in the […]
So Long and Goodbye! Google Is Ending Newspaper Digitization Project
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Update (5/22): We’ve Added A Few Pieces of Info From the Letter Google Sent to Google Newspaper Digitization Partners. You’ll Find Them At the Bottom of this Entry. Google’s goal to digitize all of the world’s newspapers is ending. Matt McGee from SEL reports that after approximately 32 months after a formal launch announcement, Google […]
Coverage from the Wall Street Journal By Russell Adams and Jefferey Trachtenberg: “John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. made an offer Thursday to acquire Barnes & Noble Inc. for $1.02 billion, a dramatic turn for the nation’s largest bookstore chain—which put itself up for sale last summer but struggled to find a buyer as the outlook […]
Research Highlights: "Academic Interlibrary Loan Benchmarks, 2011 Edition"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access
|Recently Released by Primary Research Catalog Entry/Pricing Info Academic Interlibrary Loan Benchmarks presents the results of a survey of the interlibrary loan operations of 75 academic libraries predominantly in the USA, the UK and Canada. The 140 page report presents data on staffing, budgeting, shipping expenses and other facets of interlibrary loan departmental management. The […]
You’ll find the new issue (Primary Source, May 2011 (13.4) here. Here Are Two of the Many Items Included; IMLS Research Brief No. 3: State Support for Library Services Declining Many State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs) are reporting steep and sudden declines in state revenues for library services, according to a report released today by […]
1. CIO.gov (Web App, Most Mobile Browsers, No Download Required) http://apps.usa.gov/cio-gov-mobile/ CIO.gov is the website of the U.S. Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Federal CIO Councils, serving as a central resource for information on Federal IT. By showcasing examples of innovation, identifying best practices, and providing a forum for Federal IT leaders, CIO.gov keeps […]
University of Michigan Libraries: MLibrary Begins "First Serious Effort" to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust
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|From a University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office Announcement: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are […]
"U. of California Libraries Must Increase Sharing to Weather Cuts" & Full Text of Library Planning Task Force Interim Report
Academic Libraries, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation
|From a UC Newsroom Report: The University of California’s library system must expand its shared library services to ease the impact of an upcoming budget cut of as much as 21 percent in the next six years, a UC-created task force says. To deal with these cuts, the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee’s […]
The April 2011 HathiTrust Update is Now Available Online
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|Direct to HathiTrust Update (April 2011) New PageTurner Online E-Reading Tool Enhanced Local Digitization Ingest “Michigan staff worked with Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Yale University, and the University of Illinois in April on ingest of locally-digitized volumes. We expect to begin ingest of volumes from Madrid in May, as well as the full set of […]