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ACRL partners with HighWire Press
ACRL has announced a new partnership with HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, to provide online hosting of College and Research Libraries, College and Research Libraries News, RBM, and Choice Review Online. The move from the ALA website to the HighWire platform will provide a number of benefits—improved search capabilities both within and across publications, increased Web 2.0 functionality, and online access for individual and institutional nonmember subscribers....ACRL Insider, Dec. 1
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Cornell Libraries Consider Merging
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Cornell libraries consider merging
At the beginning of December, Cornell University’s Physical Sciences Library closed, a victim of last semester’s 5% budget cut. But there may be others. A library task force suggests closing some of the 18 existing library facilities in an effort to organize physical spaces around disciplines rather than colleges. Its report outlines such scenarios as reducing the number of libraries to nine or reorganizing the library around only four central spaces....Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 30
Cornell libraries consider merging
At the beginning of December, Cornell University’s Physical Sciences Library closed, a victim of last semester’s 5% budget cut. But there may be others. A library task force suggests closing some of the 18 existing library facilities in an effort to organize physical spaces around disciplines rather than colleges. Its report outlines such scenarios as reducing the number of libraries to nine or reorganizing the library around only four central spaces....Cornell Daily Sun, Nov. 30
GWU Experiments with Robotic Book Digitization
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GWU experiments with robotic book digitization
George Washington University announced November 30 that it will use an automated system to digitize rare Middle Eastern texts from its own library and from that of Georgetown University. The KABIS III machine in the Gelman Library uses a black plastic arm to turn a page, pause as two cameras take pictures of both open pages, and then turn the page again. Air circulates through the arm of the machine, creating a gentle vacuum that can attract a page and guide it from the right side of the book to the left. The machine, purchased from Kirtas Technologies, can photograph up to 3,000 pages in an hour....Wired Campus, Dec. 1; Kirtas Technologies
GWU experiments with robotic book digitization
George Washington University announced November 30 that it will use an automated system to digitize rare Middle Eastern texts from its own library and from that of Georgetown University. The KABIS III machine in the Gelman Library uses a black plastic arm to turn a page, pause as two cameras take pictures of both open pages, and then turn the page again. Air circulates through the arm of the machine, creating a gentle vacuum that can attract a page and guide it from the right side of the book to the left. The machine, purchased from Kirtas Technologies, can photograph up to 3,000 pages in an hour....Wired Campus, Dec. 1; Kirtas Technologies
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Summon and EBSCOhost are going there too
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Summon and EBSCOhost are going there too
Gary Price writes: “Both EBSCOhost Mobile and Summon Mobile from Serials Solutions have officially been released. We’ve had only a short time to use both and for the most part were very impressed. I am more sure than ever that mobile devices (from an e-book reader to a Palm Pre to a Droid to an iPhone) can be powerful research tools in their own right. Perhaps the most important issue is how much promotion and marketing will EBSCO and the libraries that use EBSCO give to the new mobile interface?”...Resource Shelf, Nov. 10
Summon and EBSCOhost are going there too
Gary Price writes: “Both EBSCOhost Mobile and Summon Mobile from Serials Solutions have officially been released. We’ve had only a short time to use both and for the most part were very impressed. I am more sure than ever that mobile devices (from an e-book reader to a Palm Pre to a Droid to an iPhone) can be powerful research tools in their own right. Perhaps the most important issue is how much promotion and marketing will EBSCO and the libraries that use EBSCO give to the new mobile interface?”...Resource Shelf, Nov. 10
Thursday, November 19, 2009
NDIIPP Named a Great Government IT Project
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NDIIPP named a Great Government IT Project
Government Computer News named the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program October 22 as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009. The award cited its success in working with universities and libraries to model distributed preservation practices, working with state consortia to help in the preservation of state digital information, and working with commercial content providers to develop standards for digital preservation....Library of Congress, Oct. 23; Government Computer News, Oct. 12
NDIIPP named a Great Government IT Project
Government Computer News named the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program October 22 as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009. The award cited its success in working with universities and libraries to model distributed preservation practices, working with state consortia to help in the preservation of state digital information, and working with commercial content providers to develop standards for digital preservation....Library of Congress, Oct. 23; Government Computer News, Oct. 12
HP / University of Michigan to Reprint Rare Books
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HP, University of Michigan to reprint rare books
In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, Hewlett-Packard has announced a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the digital versions available online for free. HP’s BookPrep service will take in raw scans of books, clean them up to prepare them for reprinting, and then offer print-on-demand copies for sale via normal online book distribution channels like Amazon....Ars Technica, Oct. 25; Hewlett-Packard, Oct. 21
HP, University of Michigan to reprint rare books
In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, Hewlett-Packard has announced a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the digital versions available online for free. HP’s BookPrep service will take in raw scans of books, clean them up to prepare them for reprinting, and then offer print-on-demand copies for sale via normal online book distribution channels like Amazon....Ars Technica, Oct. 25; Hewlett-Packard, Oct. 21
New Students and Technology Study
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New students and technology study
Barbara Fister writes: “A new Educause Center for Applied Research study on students and technology has just come out and as usual, there are interesting findings. Nearly 90% of students come to college with a laptop now, and the percentage of students who reported using the library website daily has more than doubled—from 7.1% in 2006 to 16.9% in 2009.”...ACRLog, Oct. 25; Educause, Oct. 22
New students and technology study
Barbara Fister writes: “A new Educause Center for Applied Research study on students and technology has just come out and as usual, there are interesting findings. Nearly 90% of students come to college with a laptop now, and the percentage of students who reported using the library website daily has more than doubled—from 7.1% in 2006 to 16.9% in 2009.”...ACRLog, Oct. 25; Educause, Oct. 22
Rental Service for Research Articles
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Rental service for research articles
Frederic Lardinois writes: “Buying a single article from a scientific journal is usually prohibitively expensive if you are not a student or teacher at a school that subscribes to the journal. Most academic journals are available only behind paywalls, but DeepDyve announced a new product October 27 that could radically change the marketplace for scientific, technical, and medical articles. Accounts start with a pay-as-you-go account, by which users are charged $0.99 to keep an article for one day, and go up to an unlimited account for $19.99 per month.” Article access is view-only, and printing is not supported....ReadWriteWeb, Oct. 27
Rental service for research articles
Frederic Lardinois writes: “Buying a single article from a scientific journal is usually prohibitively expensive if you are not a student or teacher at a school that subscribes to the journal. Most academic journals are available only behind paywalls, but DeepDyve announced a new product October 27 that could radically change the marketplace for scientific, technical, and medical articles. Accounts start with a pay-as-you-go account, by which users are charged $0.99 to keep an article for one day, and go up to an unlimited account for $19.99 per month.” Article access is view-only, and printing is not supported....ReadWriteWeb, Oct. 27
Alexander Street's Streaming Music and Video to go Mobile
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Alexander Street’s streaming music and video to go mobile
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press will release a free iPhone application in early 2010 that will make its complete line of online music collections—including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries—fully accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices. With subsequent releases, patrons of subscribing libraries will also be able to access all Alexander Street video collections, such as American History in Video, Theatre in Video, and Ethnographic Video Online....Alexander Street Press, Nov. 9
Alexander Street’s streaming music and video to go mobile
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press will release a free iPhone application in early 2010 that will make its complete line of online music collections—including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries—fully accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices. With subsequent releases, patrons of subscribing libraries will also be able to access all Alexander Street video collections, such as American History in Video, Theatre in Video, and Ethnographic Video Online....Alexander Street Press, Nov. 9
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tasty Marketing Tidbits for Busy Librarians
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Tasty marketing tidbits for busy librarians
ALA Editions has released Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian, by Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste, and Jonathan Silberman. This book shares simple and cost-effective approaches to effective library marketing in a format that reflects the way people read today. Filled with contemporary marketing ideas, the authors provide how-tos of guerrilla marketing, cutting-edge digital marketing practices, and benefits of traditional print media....
Tasty marketing tidbits for busy librarians
ALA Editions has released Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian, by Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste, and Jonathan Silberman. This book shares simple and cost-effective approaches to effective library marketing in a format that reflects the way people read today. Filled with contemporary marketing ideas, the authors provide how-tos of guerrilla marketing, cutting-edge digital marketing practices, and benefits of traditional print media....
Bookserver: an Open Web of Books
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BookServer: An open web of books
The Internet Archive has just unveiled an ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on any device—a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or one of the myriad of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle....ReadWriteWeb, Oct. 20
BookServer: An open web of books
The Internet Archive has just unveiled an ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on any device—a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or one of the myriad of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle....ReadWriteWeb, Oct. 20
LC Releases Report on Bibliographic Data
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LC releases report on bibliographic data
The Library of Congress released on October 30 the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. LC commissioned R2 Consulting of Contoocook, New Hampshire, to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with a primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability....Library of Congress, Oct. 30
LC releases report on bibliographic data
The Library of Congress released on October 30 the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. LC commissioned R2 Consulting of Contoocook, New Hampshire, to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with a primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability....Library of Congress, Oct. 30
Copyright and Digitization
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Copyright and digitization
Cornell University Library has published Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums to help cultural institutions legally use the internet to improve public access to the rich collections they hold. Based on a well-received Australian manual, the book was developed by Cornell’s senior policy advisor Peter B. Hirtle. As an experiment in open-access publishing, the library has made the work available in both print and free download formats....Cornell University Library, Oct. 29
Copyright and digitization
Cornell University Library has published Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums to help cultural institutions legally use the internet to improve public access to the rich collections they hold. Based on a well-received Australian manual, the book was developed by Cornell’s senior policy advisor Peter B. Hirtle. As an experiment in open-access publishing, the library has made the work available in both print and free download formats....Cornell University Library, Oct. 29
Friday, October 30, 2009
Columbia and Cornell are 2CUL
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Columbia and Cornell are 2CUL
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $385,000 to the libraries at Columbia University in New York City and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to support the development of an innovative partnership dubbed “2CUL.” Starting this fall, Cornell and Columbia will plan significant partnerships in collaborative collection development, acquisitions, and processing. Initial work will focus on several global collecting areas, as well as collaborative funding and support of technical infrastructure....Cornell University, Oct. 12
Columbia and Cornell are 2CUL
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $385,000 to the libraries at Columbia University in New York City and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to support the development of an innovative partnership dubbed “2CUL.” Starting this fall, Cornell and Columbia will plan significant partnerships in collaborative collection development, acquisitions, and processing. Initial work will focus on several global collecting areas, as well as collaborative funding and support of technical infrastructure....Cornell University, Oct. 12
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
ARL Research Library Issues Focuses on Liaison Librarians
No. 265, August 2009, of Research Libraries Issues from ARL is devoted to role of liaison librarians. This issue is very timely with our faculty series on the role of librarians in the 21st century. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli265.shtml
CRL Focus on Global Resources Newsletter
The fall 2009 issue of the CRL Global Resources newsletter focuses on “Preserving Electronic News.” See the full issue at http://www.crl.edu/focus
New Report with Advice for Libraries on Journals and Digitization
With journals -- including back issues -- widely available in digital form, many college and university libraries are weighing whether they need to devote extensive shelf space to print copies. A new report -- “What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization” -- offers advice on the issue, analyzing the qualities of various journals that may make many of them appropriate to remove from shelves without endangering access. The report is from Ithaka, a research organization that focuses on technology and scholarly communication.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Google Books Settlement Hearing Delayed
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Google Books Settlement hearing delayed
After the Department of Justice recommended September 18 that a federal judge reject the Google Books settlement (see Karen Coyle’s analysis of the DOJ’s concerns), the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked a federal court to postpone an October 7 fairness hearing while they work out a new deal (PDF file). The court is expected to agree. Meanwhile, Google seems to be preparing for victory by purchasing reCAPTCHA and contracting with On Demand Books to let Espresso Book Machine owners print out and bind public-domain books from its database.... Relevant Results, Sept. 22; Coyle’s InFormation, Sept. 20; New York Times, Sept. 18, 20; Information Week, Sept. 16; Epicenter, Sept. 17
Google Books Settlement hearing delayed
After the Department of Justice recommended September 18 that a federal judge reject the Google Books settlement (see Karen Coyle’s analysis of the DOJ’s concerns), the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked a federal court to postpone an October 7 fairness hearing while they work out a new deal (PDF file). The court is expected to agree. Meanwhile, Google seems to be preparing for victory by purchasing reCAPTCHA and contracting with On Demand Books to let Espresso Book Machine owners print out and bind public-domain books from its database.... Relevant Results, Sept. 22; Coyle’s InFormation, Sept. 20; New York Times, Sept. 18, 20; Information Week, Sept. 16; Epicenter, Sept. 17
Support Grows for Access to Publicly Funded Research
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Support grows for access to publicly funded research
The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the United States have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in an open letter released September 23. The letter is the first from higher education administrators to be issued in support of the bill, which would require that journal articles stemming from publicly funded research be made available in an online repository no later than six months after publication....Alliance for Taxpayer Access, Sept. 23
Support grows for access to publicly funded research
The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the United States have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in an open letter released September 23. The letter is the first from higher education administrators to be issued in support of the bill, which would require that journal articles stemming from publicly funded research be made available in an online repository no later than six months after publication....Alliance for Taxpayer Access, Sept. 23
What Medical Librarians Do
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What medical librarians do
Jamie Graham writes: “You may have seen us at clinical rounds, faculty council, or IRB sessions. You may have wondered why a medical librarian would be present outside the library. Our exact function is often a mystery to clinicians, and so, we have decided to take this opportunity in our inaugural issue to introduce ourselves and tell you everything we have to offer.”...Clinical Correlations, Sept. 25
What medical librarians do
Jamie Graham writes: “You may have seen us at clinical rounds, faculty council, or IRB sessions. You may have wondered why a medical librarian would be present outside the library. Our exact function is often a mystery to clinicians, and so, we have decided to take this opportunity in our inaugural issue to introduce ourselves and tell you everything we have to offer.”...Clinical Correlations, Sept. 25
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