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Save the IMLS! Gale, ALA Launch New Advocacy Website
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Gale, Libraries, News
From the Website: The White House budget proposes to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and cut $186.6 million in federal funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), the only direct federal library funding. Gale, a Cengage company, in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) and other publishers, has […]
Cengage, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Chegg, and Ingram Announce Partnership to Fight Counterfeit Textbooks
From Cengage: Cengage, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg, Inc. to have them adopt and implement a set of Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices designed to address the growing problem of counterfeit print textbooks. The Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices are intended to assist distributors with combating counterfeits of print textbooks that hurt students, educators, publishers and distributors. [Clip] Ingram […]
News Roundup
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, News, Roundup
1.The Top 5000 Most Accessed Wikipedia Pages in 2016 (Hat Tip: @duraspace) See Also: List/Ranking: What Were the Most Edited Wikipedia Articles in 2016? 2. Gale Releases American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Digital Archive (1912-1990) ||| Direct to Learn More 3. Comcast Acquires Video Metadata Provider, Technology 4. Montana State Archives Don’t Contain Emails, Despite […]
A new resource from the Cloud Security Alliance. From Publication Announcement: [On Friday the] Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the release of the new handbook from the CSA Big Data Working Group, outlining the 100 best practices in big data security. The Big Data Security and Privacy Handbook: 100 Best Practices in Big Data Security […]
News Roundup
| Gale, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Roundup
1. Pinterest is Acquiring Instapaper 2. Learn a Language at the Library: bibliotheca Partners with Living Language (Penguin Random House Imprint) as Exclusive Distributor of Digital Subscriptions for Public Library Market 3. These Charts Show That Pokemon Go Is Already in Decline (via Bloomberg) & People are Quickly Losing Interest in Pokémon Go (via The […]
1. Milestones: IEEE Xplore Digital Library Reaches 4 Million Documents as Pace of Technical Contributions Accelerates 2. Gale Announces “Relevance Default Sort Enabled In InfoTrac Products” 3. Brill Adopts Two Libraries in Indonesia 4. Peerage of Science Partners With Taylor and Francis
Kansas: Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Looks Ahead With 10-year, $6.5 Million Master Plan
| Funding, Gale, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
Note: The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is the 2016 Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year. From The Topeka-Capital Journal: The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library has a wish list that includes as much as $6.5 million in remodeling and building projects to open the library’s space and provide more resources for patrons. […]
ProQuest News Metadata Now Available in CRL’s International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) Database
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
From the Center For Research Libraries: ProQuest is the second major publisher of commercial news databases [Gale was the first] to share metadata in CRL’s International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) database. ProQuest has provided title- and issue-level information from several news products offered through its “ProQuest Historical Newspapers” digital archive. The metadata is now available […]
News Roundup
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Gale, News, Roundup, Springer Nature
1. EBSCO Announces More Support and Funding For Koha Open Source ILS 2. Gale Releases New Historical Newspaper Archives, Metadata Available For Text and Data Mining 3. ProQuest Adds 58 Springer Nature Science and Medical Journal to Several Databases 4. E Ink Announces Advanced Color ePaper
News Roundup
| Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Gale, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries, Roundup
1. Exact Editions Signs E-Journal Digital Preservation Deal with Portico 2. Cengage Learning Achieves Milestone of More Digital Units Sold Than Print Textbooks 3. EBSCO Health and the American Medical Association Partner to Give All AMA Members Access to DynaMed Plus 4. European University Institute selects SirsiDynix Symphony and BLUEcloud Campus 5. Mobile Access and […]
