• Library of Congress Acquires Papers of Award-Winning Playwright Neil Simon

“The Library of Congress has acquired the manuscripts and papers of playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, the most commercially successful American playwright of the 20th century.

The donation will be announced at a special event with actors Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, and Elaine Joyce, actor and Simon’s widow, Monday night at the Library...”

• Smithsonian Libraries and Archives: “A 19th Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover”

Citing the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives “Unbound” Blog, infoDOCKET reports that the iconic encyclopedia Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexicon is now available in a new digital edition thanks to a recent project by Nicholas Rougeux. “Using our (Smithsonian) images from the Internet Archive, Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource. Users can browse across all four volumes by topic and manipulate the plates to highlight individual figures…” 

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Expands Oral History Collection, Partnering with Louie B. Nunn Center to Document Growth of Leading Regional Research Library Alliance

• GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO Partners with Knowledge Unlatched to Support Open Access Initiatives in Academic Libraries

• Lean Library Partners with Skilltype to Create Librarian Futures Community and Support Librarian Learning

• Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry announce new transitional OA agreement

• University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Opens New Conservation Space in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

• The Company of Biologists connects to the OA Switchboard