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New York City: "Three Renowned Research Libraries Join Forces To Better Serve Users"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From an NYPL News Release: The New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and New York University—three renowned research institutions all on the island of Manhattan—have launched an initiative to expand collections and better serve their users. The collaboration, dubbed the Manhattan Research Library Initiative, or MaRLI, will help the institutions increase […]
Library Hi Tech (Volume 29.2) Now Available to Emerald EarlyCite Subscribers
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Podcasts, Reports
|If you have access to Emerald’s pre-publication service, EarlyCite articles from Library Hi-Tech (29.2) are now available online. This is a great example of an issue with something (and very likely more) for every one. Articles Include: “Providing online access to historic films at the Washington State University Libraries” Mr. Mark O’English, Prof. Trevor James […]
Research Library Issues (#274) is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, School Libraries
|From the TOC: The Future of the US Research University David Shulenburger, Senior Fellow, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Dr. Shulenburger’s presentation was originally delivered at the Association of Research Libraries’ Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on October 14, 2010. To listen to audio from this presentation and access additional information, please visit http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/157mm-proceedings.shtml […]
Upcoming Workshop: "Information Access and Usage Behavior in Today's Academic Environment"
Academic Libraries, Gale, Lecture, Libraries, Podcasts, Publishing, School Libraries
|Registration Discounts Available Through April 1st. The NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) workshop, “Information Access and Usage Behavior in Today’s Academic Environment,” will take place in Philadelphia on April 15, 2011. If you can’t make it in person virtual attendance is also available. Workshop Overview and Highlights Digital technology has transformed information access […]
From ARL: "New Roles for Research Libraries Digital Curation for Preservation Webcast (Free)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
|Registration Now Open For Free Webcast From an ARL Announcement: To complement the recently released report in the New Roles for New Times series, “Digital Curation for Preservation, (PDF)” the Association of Research Libraries is offering a free and open webcast, “New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation.” The webcast [on April 7, […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
"Cornell Library Takes a Stand With Journal Vendors: Prices Will Be Made Public"
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries
|By Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education: Librarians have long complained about the nondisclosure agreements, or NDA’s, that some publishers and vendors require them to sign, making it difficult to share information about how much they pay to subscribe to journal databases and other scholarly material. Some state universities’ libraries have been able to […]
New: Georgia History E-book Project
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a Digital Library Georgia Blog Post: The Digital Library of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press have collaborated to make important works on Georgia history available in a digital format. A list of titles is available from the University of Georgia Press website. Access to the digital editions is available through the Digital […]
New Report from ARL: "Digital Curation for Preservation"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times. Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, the report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]