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Slides From Dr. R. David Lankes "The Future of Librarianship" Keynote Presentation (FLICC Forum)
Associations and Organizations, Government Libraries, Libraries
|Professor R. David Lankes gave a keynote presentation yesterday (May 18th) at FLICC Forum 2011 (Federal Library and Information Center Committee) held at the Library of Congress. The presentation was titled “The Future of Librarianship” and Dr. Lankes made his slides available online (PDF) today. We think you’ll find them thought provoking and worthy of discussion […]
eBooks: Smithsonian Libraries Converts Digital Publications for eReaders; Material is Free To Download
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|It’s always great to read about publishers and libraries working together. Here’s a New Item from the Smithsonian Libraries Weblog Posted by the Smithsonian Digital Library The Libraries, in a continuing partnership with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, has converted select publications from the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series to digital formats for use on Kindles, Nooks and […]
Several New eBook Publishers Now Available to OverDrive School, College, and University Library Customers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing, Scholastic
|From OverDrive: New eBook publishers supplying to OverDrive-powered school, college, and university libraries include Houghton Mifflin, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Kaeden Publishing, Barnes Report, and ALA Editions. They join Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Disney Digital Books, Elsevier Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Scholastic, Taylor & Francis, and many others in providing digital books to libraries via OverDrive. Read the […]
New Statistics Available: Bowker Releases Annual Book Production Report
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, News, Publishing, Reports
|From a Bowker News Release: Traditional publishing grows a modest 5%, while POD sends print total over a record 3 million Bowker [has] released their annual report on U.S. print book publishing, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of e-books, […]
The data was provided by Nielsen and was originally published in the Sports Business Journal. The database was first published in the Dayton Business Journal. Search by company name, sort results by clicking at the top of any column. You can review the entire list by selecting “all” from the pull-down menu. Direct to Database […]
"ALA: Department of Education Withdraws Federal Support for School Libraries"
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, School Libraries
|Although study after study demonstrates that school libraries make a difference (see below) it appears not to make a difference to the feds. This is not only sad but it also makes no sense if education is such a high priority in the U.S. Of course, science, tech, engineering, and math skills are also critical […]
CRL and California Digital Library to Develop Print Archives Preservation Registry
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a Center for Research Libraries Announcement: CRL is working with the California Digital Library to develop a Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR). PAPR will support research library and consortial efforts to archive and manage critical print serial collections in an informed and cost-effective manner. PAPR will feature a searchable database of information about current print […]
We’re long time admirers of Eszter Hargittai’s work around here and today we’re sharing a link to a preprint version of a paper that Hargittai co-authored with Eden Litt, a graduate student at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. Title: New Research: “The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success: Explaining Variation in Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of […]
From a New Media Consortium Blog Post: The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition (40 pages; PDF) is now available (free) from the New Media Consortium. From the Executive Summary: The NMC Horizon Report series is the most visible outcome of the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and […]
More Than 80 Items/Collections Nominated to Join UNESCO's Memory of the World Register List for Documentary Collections
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the UN: More than 80 unique documentary items and collections from around the world have been nominated for inscription this year on the Memory of the World Register List run by the United Nations culture agency in an effort to promote and preserve them through digitization. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization […]