ALA TechSource announces new workshop, Getting Started with Open Access - December 30, 2013
ALA TechSource has announced a new workshop, Getting Started with Open Access, with Emily Puckett Rodgers and Meredith Kahn. This workshop will last 90 minutes and is scheduled for January 15, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. EST. Journals continue their transition to becoming increasingly digital publications,… Read More
ARL and Ithaka S+R’s free web seminar to bring together leaders of seven of the eight cases profiled in the Searching for Sustainability report - December 27, 2013
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part. As grant funding rarely covers ongoing operations, the larger challenge is to develop a successful strategy to make sure the… Read More
Proposal submission deadline approaching for Library Assessment Conference 2014 - December 23, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee are accepting proposals through January 17, 2014, for the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 4–6, 2014. The goal of… Read More
The London Book Fair to launch London Book and Screen Week 2014, announces move to Olympia in 2015 - December 13, 2013
Events organiser Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2014 will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court. Following the substantial coverage in the media regarding The Earls Court Opportunity Area, the future of Earls… Read More
University of Houston selects Ex Libris Discovery solutions - December 10, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Houston (UH) has selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution and the SFX OpenURL link resolver. After defining the library's long-term requirements and evaluating a number of commercial options, the university library -… Read More
STM seminars focus on Data and Content Enrichment - December 10, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) hosted two interesting and thought provoking seminars, STM – Innovations and STM – E-Production, in London last week. On December 4, 2013, the STM – Innovations seminar kicked off with an opening Keynote from Gerry… Read More
