Exciting news from JSTOR. From Today’s Announcement: JSTOR is pleased to announce a new Alumni Access program, which enables participating higher education institutions to provide their alumni with access to their JSTOR archive collections. This is an important next step in our ongoing efforts to extend access to scholarship to individuals around the world, and [...]
Penguin Working with Baker & Taylor to Expand Ebook Lending to Libraries, Audiobook Lending Also Coming
By on November 19, 2012
From Media Decoder (NY Times): The Penguin Group plans to announce on Monday that it is expanding its e-book lending program to libraries in Los Angeles and Cleveland and surrounding areas though a new distribution partner. In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of [...]
INFOdocket: Top Resources for K–12
By on November 12, 2012 Leave a Comment
From a linguistic search technique to Wikipedia’s questionable coverage of Hurricane Sandy, the latest online resources selected by Gary Price, industry analyst librarian and editor of LJ’s INFOdocket (@INFOdocket).
Digital Public Library of America Partners With iFactory to Design/Develop Prototype of DPLA Front End Web
By on October 25, 2012
From DPLA: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be partnering with Boston, MA-based interactive agency iFactory to design and develop a prototype front end portal, the companies announced today. iFactory will create a website that will facilitate the creative discovery, sharing, and use of multimedia library materials among the general public. This prototype [...]
Unglue.it Relaunches With a New Payment Service and New Books to “Unglue” (Including a Book About Librarianship)
By on October 15, 2012
From an Unglue.it Announcement: Two months after being forced to shut down by Amazon Payments, Unglue.it is relaunching today with a new payments provider, Stripe, and ungluing campaigns for five books. Unglue.it is a crowdfunding platform that supports authors and publishers in releasing free editions of their books. After successfully raising $7500 to make Ruth [...]
eBooks: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Endorses Statewide Resource Sharing Plan, Pilot Project Coming
By on October 14, 2012
From the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners: In a single year eBook borrowing at Massachusetts public libraries has more than tripled. Yet some major publishers refuse to do business with libraries, set strict lending limitations, or sell eBooks to libraries at a price two to six times more than the eBooks offered for sale to [...]
Digital Public Library of America Receives $1 Million in Funding From Knight Foundation
By on October 12, 2012
From the DPLA Web Site: The Digital Public Library of America—a groundbreaking project that will make content in our nation’s archives and special collections digital, searchable and freely available—will launch pilot projects in seven states with $1 million in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. State libraries and regional digital library [...]
Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Expanding to UK, Germany, and France + Interview with Jeff Bezos
By on October 11, 2012
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library debuted in U.S. in early November, 2011 with about 5,000 titles. At last count, over 180,000 titles were available to U.S. KOLL users. Today’s News From Amazon.com: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is coming to the UK, Germany and France later this month, bringing Kindle [...]
