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The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
Video: "An Interview with Robert Darnton on the Digital Public Library of America"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Randall Stephens, Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College and Editor of The Historical Society blog talks with the Director of the Harvard University Library, Professor Robert Darnton, about the Digital Public Library of America that’s in the currently in the planning stages. The video interview (in two segments) runs about 20 minutes. In a […]
Associate Univesity Librarian (UMich) and Hathi Trust Executive Director John Wilkin Named LITA/Library Hi Tech Award Winner
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles
|Congrats to John Wilkin! From an ALA Announcement: John Wilkin has been named the winner of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) sponsor the award. The award recognizes outstanding persons or institutions for their long-term contributions […]
Video: "Reinventing the Research Library: The MIT Libraries in the 21st Century"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|This video was made available on February 28, 2011 via MIT TechTV. It runs close to nine minutes. The essential role of MIT’s libraries in supporting research, teaching, and student life at MIT continues to evolve. How do the Libraries meet the needs of the MIT community “wherever and whenever” they need library resources? This […]
New Internet Resources Guide: "Resources For Your Rhymes: Sites For Slam/Spoken Word/Performance Poetry"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Resources
|“Resources For Your Rhymes: Sites For Slam/Spoken Word/Performance Poetry” appears in the March 2011 (72.3) issue of College & Research Library News. The extensive list of resource was compiled and written by Maureen Perry, a reference librarian at University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College. Resources are organized into six categories: + Dictionaries/glossaries/terminology resources + Recording […]
"Two Major University Press E-book Initiatives Announce Merger"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Publishing
|From the Announcement: Two major university press e-book initiatives—Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC)—have joined forces. The result of this merger—the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC)—will launch January 1, 2012. [Clip] The partnership allows e-books from an anticipated 60-70 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses—representing as many as 30,000 frontlist […]
Joe Murphy has tweeted and blogged that a recap of the 2011 Digital Libraries Symposium is now available online in the March 2011 issue of Elsevier’s Library Connect. You can find all of the links in Joe’s blog post or you can go direct to an HTML version by clicking here. Summaries of each panel are […]
Research Libraries: ARL Releases Report on Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Publishing
|From an Association for Research Libraries Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announced the release of “Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries.” This report is the summary of a project funded by ARL to investigate how research libraries might provide support to print-only publishers in order to […]
From an Article by Sara Jerome on TheHill.com: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski is planning to announce the agency’s biggest push yet to connect students to mobile broadband outside the classroom. At an event in New York City on Wednesday, Genachowski will unveil a list of twenty schools and libraries that the agency […]
From the Sydney Morning Herald: THE University of NSW [New South Wales] is throwing away thousands of books and scholarly journals as part of a policy that critics say is turning its library into a Starbucks. Academics say complete journal collections, valuable books and newspapers dating to the 19th century are being thrown out to […]