California State University, Sacramento, selects Ex Libris Alma Library Management Service - February 13, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that California State University, Sacramento ("Sacramento State"), has selected the Alma unified library management solution. The University Library at Sacramento State will consolidate library operations under Alma, which will replace a number of systems: the Innovative… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education makes LearnSmart available to high school students - February 12, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced that it will make McGraw-Hill LearnSmart, its adaptive study tool, available for students in high school. The aim is to provide teachers and schools with a digital solution that has been proven to increase… Read More
NISO and OAI release draft for comments of ResourceSync Framework Specification - February 12, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has announced the release of a beta draft for comments of the ResourceSync Framework Specification for the web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow third-party systems to remain synchronized with… Read More
Geological maps from SEG now discoverable and downloadable through Elsevier’s Geofacets research tool - February 12, 2013
STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) have announced the inclusion of maps from SEG's flagship Economic Geology journal into Geofacets, Elsevier's research tool for geoscientists working in exploration. The joint effort means that geoscientists in the metals and mining, and oil… Read More
Google to digitise books from Michigan State University Libraries - February 11, 2013
Books from the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries will soon be digitised by Google to become part of the Google Books website. Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU's… Read More
ARL to be one of ten host institutions for the inaugural National Digital Stewardship Residency programme - February 11, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that it has been selected as one of ten host institutions for the inaugural National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) programme, launched by the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The NDSR programme… Read More
