Gale announces Gale Gateways programme, aims to transform online library experience - March 15, 2012
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced Gale Gateways, an innovative programme for public libraries. Designed to represent the unique way in which a community interacts with its public library, Gale Gateways bring… Read More
More US libraries select OCLC WorldShare Management Services as their Web-based cooperative library management solution - March 14, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that public libraries in the US are working with the cooperative to help make OCLC WorldShare Management Services the 21st-century solution for library management. San Juan Island Library in Washington and Union County Public Library in North Carolina recently… Read More
3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems announce strategic partnership to integrate 3M Cloud Library with Polaris ILS - March 12, 2012
Library solutions provider 3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems have announced a strategic partnership that will make browsing and checking out eBooks simpler. The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS), allowing patrons at participating… Read More
OCLC and Bibliotheek.nl sign agreement to include complete collections of Dutch public libraries in shared cataloguing system - March 5, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Bibliotheek.nl, the organisation of Dutch public libraries, have signed an agreement to include the complete collections of public libraries in the GGC, the Dutch shared cataloguing system. The agreement to include collections of Dutch public libraries, signed during the OCLC… Read More
ARL releases updated analysis of legal arguments available to support website archiving by research libraries - February 27, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ‘A New Day for Website Archiving 2.0,’ an updated analysis by copyright expert Jonathan Band of the legal arguments available to support website archiving by research libraries. Most websites reportedly contain copyrighted works and may themselves be… Read More
OCLC offers bulk downloadable version of FAST free of charge - February 20, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has made FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) available for bulk download, along with some minor improvements based on user feedback and routine updates. As with other FAST data, the bulk downloadable versions are available at no charge. FAST… Read More
OCLC adds 500,000 records to WorldCat from China Academic Library and Information System - February 17, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has added 500,000 records to WorldCat from the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), a nationwide academic library consortium with a mission to promote, maintain and improve resource sharing among Chinese university libraries and other libraries and institutions. These records… Read More
OCLC’s Website for Small Libraries project now available as a beta service - February 15, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the Website for Small Libraries project, which began as an OCLC Innovation Lab experiment in 2011, is now available as a beta service for any library wishing to set up its own website. By participating in the… Read More
CLIR and NITLE form digital academic publishing programme - February 14, 2012
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) have announced the formation of Anvil Academic, a digital publisher for the humanities. Anvil will focus on publishing new forms of scholarship that cannot… Read More
ALA President, publishing execs discuss library lending of e-books - February 9, 2012
American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael recently led an ALA delegation to New York to meet separately with representatives from publishers Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster and Perseus. The representatives at these meetings included CEOs, division presidents and other executives. Acknowledging that the… Read More
