HathiTrust to partner with DPLA

Posted in News“The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available content. DPLA provides an online portal to freely available digital material held by libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. By offering a unified discovery [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 18 June 2013 | 8:57 pm

Library director says mistake was made in book ‘weeding’

Posted in News“A shipment of books removed from the shelves of the Urbana Free Library only a week earlier is making its way back to the library. Headed back to Urbana will be art books, gardening books, pet books and some cookbooks that were taken off the shelves as a result of what has been described as [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 17 June 2013 | 8:31 am

Library and Archives Canada will face enormous challenge in digitizing collection, report says

Posted in News“It is much harder and more expensive to digitize a national archive than those undertaking the task usually realize, a consultant warned Library and Archives Canada earlier this year. Éric Méchoulan of the Université de Montréal, hired on a $15,000 contract to advise LAC on issues involving digitization of its collection, produced a report in [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 17 June 2013 | 8:11 am

The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard University

Posted in News“Jeffrey Schnapp is on a mission to save our libraries. As the director of both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the metaLab (at) Harvard, he typically spends his days grappling with the urgent questions of the wired world, but right now, his most pressing concern is more concrete. In a rapidly digitizing [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 17 June 2013 | 8:05 am

Stephen King’s Scary Library Needs $9 Million Repair: Muni Deals

Posted in News“Readers of Stephen King’s novel “It” know the Bangor Public Library as a hiding spot for the title character, a deranged clown on a murderous rampage. In real life, the library is falling apart. Voters in the Maine riverfront town of 33,000 will decide tomorrow whether to back a $3 million tax-exempt bond issue to [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 17 June 2013 | 7:55 am

Discarded Books, Recovered Nostalgia

Posted in News“In cursing e-readers and extolling the virtues of dusty, tree-killing books, one risks blowing the trumpet of the curmudgeonly grump. Nevertheless, while books may not necessarily make for a better reading experience, they are superior as subject matter for a photo project. (I defy you, dear reader, to find a loving portrait of a Nook.) [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 17 June 2013 | 7:53 am

Former West Publishing Co. president dies at 89

Posted in News“The former president of West Publishing Co., credited with leading the company into the digital age, has died at age 89.Dwight Opperman died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hill, Calif., according to his son, Vance Opperman. The elder Opperman became president of West Publishing Co. in 1968, when the company was based in St. Paul, and [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 14 June 2013 | 11:17 am

Disability rights advocates and publishers push for national standards for ed tech materials

Posted in News“Disability rights advocates and book publishers are pushing for federal regulations to ensure higher education technology is accessible to tens of thousands of students with visual impairments. A federal study in 2011 found college students with a range of disabilities face “unintended and nearly impenetrable barriers” thrown up by some new technology products. Now, the [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 14 June 2013 | 8:07 am

ALA Joins Others to Demand Civil Liberties

Posted in News“The American Library Association recently joined 86 other civil liberties groups, Internet activists and authors to sign an open letter to Congress, calling for a congressional investigation committee, similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s. The letter is in response to the recent leaking of highly classified documents about the government’s monitoring of private [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 14 June 2013 | 7:54 am

Inspiring research, inspiring scholarship: the value and benefits of digitised resources for learning, teaching, research and enjoyment

Posted in News“A new report released by King’s Digital Consultancy Service, written by Simon Tanner.   The research is the product of a JISC funded project to investigate the values, benefits and impacts of digitised resources. This document draws evidence from a wide number of sources and seeks to provide a compelling account of the advantages of digitised [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 14 June 2013 | 7:49 am

Europeana digital library project recalls fall of Iron Curtain

Posted in News“Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, has launched a new project titled ‘Europeana 1989′. People across Europe are invited to share their experiences, stories and memorabilia from the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain in a digital archive. This release will also be available in the languages of the former Communist states. [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 13 June 2013 | 1:38 pm

Philip Pullman: ‘Authors must be paid fairly for ebook library loans’

Posted in News“His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman is leading a call for writers to be “paid fairly” when their ebooks are borrowed from libraries, after investigations found they may be losing out twice over on digital loans. Pullman takes over from PD James as president of the Society of Authors in August, and is spearheading the [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 13 June 2013 | 7:22 am

Library board rehires worker

Posted in News“The rumble in Round Lake is over. As its first order of business, a newly appointed seven-member Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Wednesday night and unanimously voted to reinstate longtime librarian Theresa Marchione to her job with back pay. “Come on back, Theresa,” said Bill Ryan as sustained applause from the audience filled Village Hall. Marchione, [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 13 June 2013 | 7:20 am

A public library on a bicycle? Seattle has one

Posted in News“Seattle is a great book town. And also a great biking town. So it should comes as little surprise that Seattle now given us a mobile, people-powered public library that’s wheeled about town by pedaling librarians. “Librarians on bicycles are traveling to several outdoor events across the city with a custom-built book trailer that can [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 13 June 2013 | 7:11 am

Anger greets secret private Library and Archives Canada deal

Posted in News“Confusion and anger over a major, secretly brokered deal between Library and Archives Canada and a private high-tech consortium heightened Wednesday amid damage-control efforts by archive officials who say the deal is a good one. Details of the project, revealed late Tuesday by the Ottawa Citizen, would see Library and Archives hand over millions of [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 13 June 2013 | 7:09 am

Slice Bookshelf joins a crowded field of virtual book sites

Posted in News“With financial backing from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Slice Bookshelf joins a crowded library of social reading sites Thursday. Like Shelfari, LibraryThing and GoodReads, Bookshelf promises “a fun way to discover and share books with your friends” on the Web. After several months of preliminary testing, the Web site officially went live Thursday morning. It’s the latest offering from [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 12 June 2013 | 1:54 pm

Practising Law Institute awarded American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) prestigious New Product of the Year Award 2013

Posted in News“The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the nation’s oldest organization for law librarians and related professionals, has awarded its 2013 New Product of the Year Award to continuing legal education provider and publisher Practising Law Institute (PLI) for the company’s new eBook library Discover PLUS. The Association will present the award in Seattle during [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 12 June 2013 | 1:51 pm

Library Budgets, Journal Bundles, Reference Staffing

Posted in News“ARL [Association of Research Libraries]  has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282, which features articles on ARL library budgets over the past two years, subscriptions to journal collections from large publishers, and the impact of the changing roles of librarians on reference staffing. A pre-publication version of the article about journal bundles was released [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 12 June 2013 | 6:02 am

Learning to Love a New Library

Posted in News“A branch of the Baltimore County Public Library opened in Owings Mills and it has that gaseous, exciting new building smell of cellophane, and carpet remnant. All the books are new: so glossy, so brand-spanking, so fresh that when you open them they rustle. Getting my paws on them would be like plundering the New [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 12 June 2013 | 5:56 am

Dozens of cash-strapped Brooklyn Public Library branches are in disrepair

Posted in News“The coffers are so drained at the Brooklyn Public Library that eight branches with busted air conditioners were forced to shut down on one scorching day earlier this month. Three of those branches double as city-designated cooling centers, where seniors and others are instructed to chill out during the summer’s most unbearable stretches. They are [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 12 June 2013 | 5:15 am

Oakland Public Library Again Serving Free Summer Lunches

Posted in News“After working at the Oakland Public Library for more than 15 years, branch manager Pete Villaseñor has grown accustomed to kids hanging out in the library all summer long. For some, the library serves serve as ad hoc day care while their parents are at work. For others, the library is a safe place to [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 11 June 2013 | 8:44 pm

Library and Archives paywall delayed until fall

Posted in News“An internal document from Library and Archives Canada suggests the department is considering a paywall to help pay for digitizing its content, but that plan has been delayed until at least the fall. Part of a plan posted on an archivist’s Tumblr blog involves a 10-year agreement with non-profit group Canadiana.org. “The agreement … provides [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 11 June 2013 | 8:24 pm

Bishop Grosseteste University is first UK institution to go live with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services

Posted in News“Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln is the first institution in the UK to go live with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS) having successfully implemented the services on Monday. Bishop Grosseteste University is now among the more than 100 libraries worldwide using OCLC’s cloud-based library management services that easily integrate with institutional systems to help libraries [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 11 June 2013 | 4:28 pm

Can Booklikes be the next Goodreads?

Posted in News“After a long development period, Booklikes launched in May. Its interface is part Tumblr, particularly in two aspects: each user has a blog within the site, and the main dashboard page includes a Tumblr-like feed from other blogs. And it’s also part Goodreads, with a visual bookshelf that users can fill with books they’ve read and [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 11 June 2013 | 4:24 pm

Softlink and OverDrive further plans for deep eContent integration

Posted in News“Softlink and OverDrive have announced deep API integration of OverDrive services into Softlink’s leading knowledge, content and library management solutions for schools and special libraries. Softlink Chief Operating Officer Nathan Godfrey said Softlink was excited about extending the partnership with OverDrive, the global leader in eBook distribution, to provide innovations for the digital marketplace. The [...]Leave a Comment

Posted by on 11 June 2013 | 2:26 pm

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