• NARA: New National Archives Catalog Debuts

According to infoDOCKET “A new, modernized National Archives Catalog launched online today (11/22). The new Catalog’s focus on scalability will allow the agency to reach its goal to get 500 million digitized pages in the Catalog by September 2026.
“The fully redesigned online public access Catalog makes accessing the agency’s holdings more intuitive for the user and improves the search experience by generating faster results. …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• The New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Group collaborate with Wolters Kluwer to expand global reach of leading journals

• Year in Review: Open Library Passes Six Million Registered Users in 2022, More Than 4.3 Million Books Borrowed

• Oxford University Press and JUSTICE sign three-year transformative agreement

• CHORUS and IEEE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pilot a TechRxiv preprint dashboard service

• Chaoyang University of Technology is now live with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services

• LexisNexis expands its Intellectual Property Solutions suite with the acquisition of IPlytics

• U.S. Booksellers Embrace Books in Spanish

• Spotify audiobook service now available in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, & WEBINARS

SWIB22 – 14th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference – 28 November – 02 December 2022, online.

“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we cannot be sure that by November travelling and meeting face-to-face will be possible for everybody in the community. Therefore, we have decided to hold SWIB22 online for the third time. This will offer everybody an opportunity to easily participate from all over the world.
“Taking into account the different time zones of the participants, we plan to carry out the conference during the week of 28 November – 02 December, daily from UTC 14:00 to 16:30. …”