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eBook Partnerships: Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and Two Colorado Libraries Announce Project
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing
|From a Colorado Independent Publishers Association Announcement: We are pleased to announce a partnership between the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and two Colorado libraries: the Red Rocks Community College Library and the Douglas County Libraries. By June of 2011, the Red Rocks Community College and the Douglas County Libraries will not only offer eBooks […]
Upcoming Events: Newly Created University Press Content Consortium Featured in March 23 Webinar
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|From Info Posted on the NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) Web Site: NFAIS is pleased to announce that Dean Smith, Director of Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press, has been added as a speaker to the NFAIS-sponsored webinar on March 23rd to address the creation of the University Press Content Consortium. The new consortium was […]
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"
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|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
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|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"
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|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"
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|“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"
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|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
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|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 […]