MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2015
The new, second edition of the The World Through Picture Books Catalogue was posted online today by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). and was edited by edited by Annie Everall OBE and Viviana Quiñones. The complete book runs 222 pages (PDF). Printed copies should also be available for sale sometime next month. The book […]
Reference & Data Mining: LinkedIn Introduces Graduate School Rankings Based on Career Outcome Data
|Note: What you’re about to read about from LinkedIn has been online for several months. It appears today is a formal launch. From the LinkedIn Blog: …today, LinkedIn is introducing Graduate School Rankings [for 1o careers] based on career outcome data. By analyzing the employment patterns of over 347+ million LinkedIn members from around the […]
Conference Presentation: “Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services at the University of Michigan”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|As many of you know ACRL 2015 begins in Portland, OR tomorrow (March 25). During the coming days we plan to share a selection of papers, slide presentations, remarks, etc. from the conference on infoDOCKET that are either available from the online proceedings or have been posted elsewhere. Let’s begin. Title Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing […]
From The Day: It’s not often an almost $10 million renovation is completed five months ahead of time. But after more than 15 years of planning and about nine months of construction, Connecticut College’s Charles E. Shain Library officially reopened Monday afternoon after a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony. [Clip] A flagship feature of the new Shain […]
From the OS Blog: …our latest OS OpenData products are now available for download. Announced last month, the four new products in our open data portfolio are OS Open Map – Local, OS Open Names, OS Open Rivers and OS Open Roads. Bringing our OS OpenData offering up to sixteen products, the latest offer you […]
Unlimited Priorities and NCSU Libraries Partner to Create Data Mining Agreement For Content From Accessible Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|Accessible Archives offers access to primary source materials from 18th and 19th Century publications. At the bottom of this post we’ve included a link to a data mining agreement with Gale that NCSU Libraries signed and announced last November. From UP: Unlimited Priorities a firm specializing in support for small and medium-size companies in the information […]
Industry News Roundup: Items from Gale, OCLC, ProQuest, IOP Publishing, Readcube, and Others
Digital Preservation, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Roundup
|1. Gale Announces Mass Digitization Program for Arabic Language Primary Materials 2 .IOP Publishing Journals Now Indexed and Discoverable Across ReadCube’s Web, Desktop and Mobile Platforms 3. ProQuest and Google Collaborate to Improve Researchers’ Workflows We will have more on this soon. 4. Four Kentucky University Libraries Select OCLC Worldshare Management Services MORE TO COME […]
From the Wikimedia Foundation; Guy [Kawasaki] is a noted entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, chief evangelist of Canva, an online, graphic-design service, and as an executive fellow of Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. “There are few projects in the history of the world that can have the long-term impact of Wikimedia.” said […]
New York Public Library to Break Ground on Expansion of Underground Storage at Iconic 42nd Street Building
Lecture, Libraries, Preservation, Public Libraries, Resources, School Libraries
|From the NYPL: The New York Public Library breaks ground this week on a significant expansion of modern underground storage at its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The project – approved by the Library’s Board of Trustees in September 2012 – will transform 55,700 square feet of raw space […]
UMass Amherst Opens First Large-Scale MakerBot Innovation Center at a University Library
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Productivity, Resources
|From UMass Amherst: Libraries throughout the U.S. are implementing new technologies to adapt to the changing habits of the digital age by adding additional services such as wireless Internet (97.5 percent), e-readers (25.4 percent) and tablets (16.5 percent). But technology is also driving a different trend that is redefining the very role that libraries play. […]