ProQuest and CALIS expand long-standing collaboration to bring Chinese scholarship to a global audience - April 17, 2017
ProQuest and China Academic Library Information System (CALIS), a consortium of Chinese higher education libraries, have expanded their long-standing collaboration and are now enabling unprecedented, global access to more than 270,000 dissertation abstracts from China’s premier universities. The records, captured in English, are available in the… Read More
Library and Archives Canada in deal to use OCLC WMS as its library services platform, to move catalogue to WorldCat - April 17, 2017
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has entered into an agreement with OCLC to use OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform and move its National Union Catalogue to WorldCat. These moves are designed to make Canada's documentary heritage more widely accessible and available to… Read More
Lauren Pressley elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect - April 17, 2017
Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associate dean of UW Libraries, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and assume the presidency in July 2018 for a one-year term. … Read More
More than 200 titles now available from KU Select 2016 - April 11, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, has unlatched over 200 titles from the recently-funded KU Select 2016 collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences e-books. This brings the total number of unlatched books from all KU collections… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center seeks proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support projects - April 10, 2017
The Advanced Collaborative Support Program (ACS), a scholarly service at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis, is offering non-consumptive access to the entire HathiTrust collection. HTRC seeks proposals in three categories… Read More
Université libre de Bruxelles to implement Ex Libris Alma, Primo and Leganto - April 7, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Université libre de Bruxelles will be implementing the Ex Libris Alma® library management service, Primo® discovery and delivery solution, and LegantoSM course reading list solution to assist the university libraries in meeting the needs of students and… Read More
