Library News, Reviews, and Views
As usual, ALA was a whirlwind of panels, book buzzes, parties, and my favorite—meeting librarians in the inevitable lines for food and bathrooms (will the conference centers ever figure this out?). The best fun was at the AAP Library Family Feud, where librarians took on authors about such burning questions as what 100 librarians said [...]
Despite conventional wisdom that conferences held on the coasts draw smaller crowds and complaints from some vendors that show floor traffic was down, Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association (ALA), reported that this year’s Midwinter attendance totaled 10,731. That’s up slightly from 2012’s 9,929 and 2011’s 10,110, though below 2010’s high of 11,095.
The Chicago Public Library has joined the list of major U.S. libraries that have signed on with Toronto-based BiblioCommons as its discovery provider. An investment from the Chicago Public Library Foundation made possible the three-year deal that was announced Saturday. Among the other libraries where Bibliocommons’s BiblioCore catalog is live are Seattle Public Library, Cleveland [...]
From the Digital Public Library of America Blog: The DPLA Nominating Committee was established by the DPLA Board of Directors during a December 2012 meeting to recommend two additional members for the DPLA Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee is composed of the following individuals: Cathy Casserly, DPLA Board of Directors (Treasurer) Luis Herrera, DPLA [...]
From the Palgrave Macmillan Website and News Release: Palgrave Open offers authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon publication. [Clip] Palgrave Open publishes OA content under the [...]
The ACLTS (Assn. for Library Collections and Technical Services) Communications Interest Group held a program at the ALA 2013 Midwinter Meeting yesterday in Seattle and slides from the presentations are now available online. 1. SCOAP3 Presenters: Ann Okerson (CRL) and Tom Sanville (LYRASIS) Direct to PPT Slides 2. eScholarship PLUS: Sustaining Open Access Scholarly Publishing [...]
ProQuest Product Announcements Made at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013 ProQuest’s Expansion of History Vault Opens New Perspectives on Pivotal Eras in American History In 2013, ProQuest will open content that has been largely inaccessible to global researchers with a significant expansion of its acclaimed History Vault, a five-year program to provide central access to the [...]
EBSCO Announcements Made at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013 EBSCO Publishing Increases E-book Content for Academic Libraries eBooks on EBSCOhost continues to grow as thousands of e-books have been added to the eBook Academic Collection —increasing the number of e-books to more than 112,000. [Clip] EBook Academic Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with [...]
Friday’s ERT/Booklist Author Forum, moderated by Booklist editor Brad Hooper, brought together a diverse group of novelists to talk about the state of the novel and the role place plays in fiction. Literary fiction writer Ruth Ozeki (My Year of Meats), prolific fantasy author Terry Brooks (“Shannara” series), thriller writer Gregg Olsen (Fear Collector), and [...]
From Springer: Springer now offers online access to 37,000 historic, English-language eBooks with the launch of the Springer Book Archives. The SBA will be completed by the end of this year, and when finished researchers, students and librarians will be able to access more than 170 years of science through 100,000 titles, available anywhere, at [...]
INFOdocket by Gary Price
