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Coalition of More Than 85 Organizations Asks White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries, Special Libraries
|From SPARC: Today, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), along with a broad coalition of more than 85 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative action to ensure federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) that are free to use, share, […]
Nominations For 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service Now Open
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|From IMLS (Institute For Museum and Library Services): Each year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services presents select museums and libraries with the nation’s highest honor, the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. IMLS is now accepting nominations for the 2016 award which recognizes libraries and museums that make significant and exceptional contributions […]
New Conference Paper: “US Libraries as Publishers: Status and Concerns”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing, Special Libraries
|The following paper will be presented this August at the 2015 IFLA Annual Meeting/World Library Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Title US Libraries as Publishers: Status and Concerns Authors Heather Lea Moulaison University of Missouri Chris Le Beau University of Missouri Source IFLA Web Site Abstract Although there are successful instances of library […]
BiblioBoard and Minitex Partner on Minnesota-Based Independent Publisher E-Collection
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup, Special Libraries
|BiblioBoard’s new multi-year partnership with Minitex (a network of academic, public, state government, and special libraries in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota) was announced in a media release from the company earlier today. The Minitex independent publisher e-collection (books and other materials by area authors) will be the fourth statewide ebook project that BiblioBoard. […]
Special Libraries: Army’s Largest Technical Library Collaborates to Define its 21st Century Future
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Reports, Special Libraries
|From the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Public Affairs: Redstone Scientific Information Center, or RSIC, is a unique, national asset containing a collection of specialized materials including technical reports, contractor reports, technical memorandums, informational briefs, special reports, and conference papers open to all government employees and contractors at Redstone […]
Official: EBSCO Acquires YBP
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources, Special Libraries
|UPDATE 4:45 PM: Coverage from Meredith Schwartz at Library Journal UPDATE 2:45 PM: We’ve added links to comments from ProQuest re:GOBI at the bottom of this post. Here’s the official announcement from EBSCO about today’s acquisition of YBP Library Services. More to come on infoDOCKET and on Library Journal. From EBSCO: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) […]
New Article: “Salaries of Special Librarians in the United States”
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Special Libraries
|The following full text article, authored by two people well-known throughout the library community, appears in the June 2014 issue (Vol.40, No.2) of IFLA Journal from the International Federation of Library Associations. Title Salaries of Special Librarians in the United States Authors James Matarazzo Simmons College Toby Pearlstein Bain & Company, Inc. Source IFLA Journal […]
North Carolina and Massachusetts: More Interesting Statewide Ebook Partnerships Involving BiblioBoard
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing, School Libraries, Special Libraries
|Last week we pointed out a new and very interesting partnership between the State Library of Arizona and BiblioBoard. The two organizations will work together to obtain content, which the State Library will own and BiblioLabs will host. In addition to hosting commercially available eBooks about Arizona, BiblioBoard will include a self-publishing module for local […]
Slide Presentation & Video: The Current State of Reference, Results From the SAGE Global Survey
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|UPDATED March 27, 2014 Video Recording of Presentation — On Thursday, the Special Libraries Association (SLA) held a webinar that featured Elisabeth Leonard, Market Research Analyst at SAGE. Leonard presented more findings from a survey of libraries about the current state of reference. This specific presentation focused on reference budgets and perceptions of reference services by various […]
Results From “Makerspaces in Libraries” Study Released
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|John Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library located on the Middletown, OH campus of Miami University and during October and November he conducted a web-based survey about makerspaces in libraries. Burke solicited for respondents from 12 electronic discussion lists, Twitter, and one Facebook group. 143 librarians responded to the survey. You can review the questions that were asked here. Today, findings from the survey became […]