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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 […]
From an Inside Google Books Post: The Web Reader works in all modern browsers and lets you read Google eBooks without having to download them. To select text in a Google eBook within the Web Reader, double-click or highlight it with your mouse and a pop-up menu opens with the following options: Define, Translate, Search […]
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 […]
A partnership between Microsoft, Facebook, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children An announcement about the partnership and the use PhotoDNA was made on Thursday. On Friday (May 20, 2011) online discussion about issues. (Webcast on Facebook at 3pm EDST) A Small Portion of a MS Technet Blog Post : Today marks a […]
Preprint: "Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal Ranking"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Title: Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal Ranking (16 pages; PDF) Author: Jingfeng Xia Affiliation: Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science Accepted: May 8, 2011 Scheduled For Publication in January 2012 Issue of College and Research Libraries From the Abstract: Academic journal ranking serves as an important criterion for the scholarly […]
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 […]
From Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. now sells 105 books for its Kindle electronic-readers for every 100 printed books. Sales of the e-books for the Kindle, introduced in 2007, surpassed hardcover titles in July 2010, and overtook paperbacks six months later, the Seattle-based company said today in a statement. “We had high hopes that this would happen […]
The World Digital Library is Now Tweeting and More About the WDL
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|A Hello to the World Digital Library on Twitter! Follow: @WDLorg If you’re unfamiliar with the WDL here are a few fast facts and links: The World Digital was first proposed by Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress, in 2005 and was officially launched in April, 2009. UNESCO has been a partner since the very […]
Coalition for Networked Information President Clifford Lynch delivered “E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later” during a breakout session at the CNI Spring Meeting in April. Direct to Video (65 Minutes) Dr. Lynch Writes: In 2001 I wrote an essay titled “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday 6:6). […]
Direct to The Complete List Direct to The Complete List Some researchers might find the bio information and links useful. The list is full of people from info tech including: Jack Dorsey, Square (also Co-Founder and Back in Charge at Twitter) Sebastian Thun, Google Alex Kipman, Microsoft Chris Cox, Facebook Han Han, Blogger Rebekah Cox, […]