MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2015
From The Bookseller: Print book sales showed “continuing resilience” in 2014, with overall spending on print and digital titles increasing across the year. Meanwhile, online book buying overtook in-store book buying for the first time last year. In 2014, sales of print and e-books stood at £2.2bn, up 4% from the previous year. The data […]
Reports in the News: FBI Releases Final Report of the 9/11 Review Commission
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Today [March 25, 2015], the FBI released The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century, the final report of the 9/11 Review Commission. This congressionally mandated review focused on the FBI’s implementation of the recommendations proposed by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the […]
Flickr Commons Welcomes Its 100th Member Institution, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries!
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From the Flickr Blog: We’re very excited to welcome the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries to the Flickr Commons. VCU — the hub of Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the USA — has grown and evolved since its founding more than 175 years ago, and the VCU Libraries collections reflect the complexity […]
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library Houses a History of Publishing
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From Columbia News: Within the Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s (RBML) trove of publishing industry records is a single index card that notes the delivery of a manuscript by an unpublished author titled Go Set a Watchman. It is the only known record of the first draft of a novel that would become the 1960 […]
Bethany Nowviskie Named New Director of the Digital Library Federation
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
|From CLIR: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that Bethany Nowviskie will join its staff April 16 as director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). Nowviskie is widely known as a pioneer and leading force in digital humanities. She has been director of digital research & scholarship at the University of […]
Boston University Adopts Opt-Out Open Access Policy
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From BU Today: Following the example of 23 of its peers in the Association of American Universities (AAU) and strengthening its commitment to the widest possible online sharing and dissemination of its research and scholarship, Boston University has adopted an Opt-Out Open Access policy for faculty scholarly articles. The policy, which was recommended by the […]
Toronto Public Library Ending Used Book Buying Pilot Program
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From The Star: The Toronto Public Library is ending a fledgling program to buy used books for its collection after authors complained that they were missing out on royalties and the pilot project proved disappointing, the city’s chief librarian said Tuesday. Launched Dec. 1, the initiative allowed Toronto residents to sell used books to the […]
Reference: American Bankers Association Launches New Search Tool for Bank Routing Numbers
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|From the American Bankers Association: The American Bankers Association [recently] launched a new tool, which allows consumers to look up bank routing numbers. The database contains all of the routing numbers — also known as ABA numbers or routing transit numbers — for U.S. financial institutions. “The term ‘routing number’ is the most searched for term […]
From The Library of Congress: The Doors’ debut album; the magical essence of New Orleans jazz; one of the most-played songs on the airways during the 20th century; the “Lovin’ Feelin’” of the Righteous Brothers; and the sounds of a pioneering children’s program are among the recordings recently selected for induction into the Library of […]
From the London School of Economics “Impact” Blog: What does the future hold for academic books? Rebecca Lyons introduces The Academic Book of the Future, a two-year project funded by the AHRC in collaboration with the British Library in which a cross-disciplinary team from University College London and King’s College London explores how scholarly work […]