CLOCKSS announces its TRAC re-certification - November 13, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive, the long-term preservation service for scholarly content, has announced its TRAC re-certification by the Center for Research Libraries, based on an updated Trusted Repository Archiving Checklist audit. With grades on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), CLOCKSS maintained its score of… Read More
ProQuest launches Idea Exchange, an online community for customer ideas - November 9, 2018
ProQuest has announced the launch of Idea Exchange, an online community enabling customers to shape the products and solutions they invest in and use every day. Librarians who use the OASIS® system or LibCentral®, the administrative portal for the Ebook Central® platform, now have a new… Read More
University of Winnipeg readies to go live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services by end of the year - November 8, 2018
The University of Winnipeg, a member of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its new cloud-based library services platform. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) provides all of the applications needed to manage a… Read More
EBSCO partners with American Library Association to offer scholarship for librarians outside US to attend ALA Annual Conference - November 7, 2018
The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) are partnering to offer three scholarships to librarians residing outside of the US to attend the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition. This year’s conference will take place from June 20… Read More
NISO releases draft KBART Automation Recommended Practice for public comment - November 2, 2018
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Recommended Practice, KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings. KBART Automation is an enhancement to KBART, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools, the NISO initiative which provides a format for content providers to use… Read More
Ex Libris’ campusM Attendance module is now available to all development partners - October 31, 2018
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that campusM Attendance module is now available to all development partners. This first release represents an important phase in the development of a feature intended to facilitate class attendance tracking for institutions of higher education across the globe. … Read More
