MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2017
Milestones: HathiTrust Reaches 15 Million Volumes More Than 6 Million Visitors in 2016
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From an Announcement by HathiTrust’s Executive Director, Mike Furlough: We’re thrilled to announce that HathiTrust now includes over 15 million volumes! Volume number 15,000,000, added during Presidents’ Day Weekend’s batch deposits, was digitized from the collections of the University of California, Irvine: Le parfait courtisan du Comte Baltasar Castillonois, es deux langues, respondans par deux colomnes, […]
From the EC: New technologies, such as those developed through funding from Horizon 2020, can only be successful if they are fit for market and society. The dramatic scale and pace of technological developments offers tremendous potential, but with these opportunities come new dangers and new responsibilities. This implies that technological innovations need to pay […]
New Publisher Sales and Trends Data (Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks) From American Association of Publishers
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing
|From AAP: Reminder Publisher net revenue is tracked monthly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and includes sales data from more than 1,200 publishers (#AAPStats). Figures represent publishers’ net revenue for the U.S. (i.e. what publishers sell to bookstores, direct to consumer, online venues, etc.), and are not retailer/consumer sales figures. The first three […]
Emory Univeristy Receives $1.2 Million Mellon Grant to Help Shape Future of Scholarly Publishing
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|From Emory University: Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses. The idea to […]
Exciting project and one SUPERB logo! From the NC State University: Today’s college textbooks are more than 800 percent pricier than in 1978, sharply outpacing inflation and averaging nearly $5,000 for four years of study. So what does a student with a limited budget do? In 2014, nearly 7 in 10 college students reported not purchasing […]
From the FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today released an updated list of pilot, air traffic controller, law enforcement and citizen reports of potential encounters with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – more popularly called “drones”. The latest data cover February through September 2016. Reports of possible drone sightings to FAA air traffic facilities continued to increase […]
From The Guardian: The decline in books stocked by public libraries may be far worse than official figures indicate, with industry sources claiming that it may be many millions higher than the 25 million books recorded as missing, meaning that the number of books available to borrowers has plummeted by more than 50% since 1996. […]
From The Denver Post: The head of the Jefferson County Public Library this month deleted a series of tweets from the library’s Twitter account after a county commissioner complained they were politically biased. That has people in the county talking about the role of libraries as repositories of free expression and the unfettered exchange of […]
From W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) : The Web Annotation Working Group has just published a Recommendation for Web Annotation in the form three documents: Web Annotation Data Model—specification describes a structured model and format, in JSON, to enable annotations to be shared and reused across different hardware and software platforms. Common use cases can […]
ACRL Board of Directors Issues Statement on the Dissemination of Federal Research
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Here’s the full text of the ACRL statement released today (via ACRL Insider): Editor’s note: The following statement was approved by the ACRL Board of Directors on February 23, 2017. The Board wishes to acknowledge the ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee’s input and work in drafting the statement. As the higher education organization for […]