by Tom Gilson | May 26, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative Library Technology Guides notes that “MIT Press announced the launch of its Direct-to-Open framework. In this model, rather than purchasing licenses to eBook titles individually or through...
by Tom Gilson | May 25, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive According to Caralee Adams and the Internet Archive Blog “For librarians who specialize in caring for music collections, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest technology and resources in...
by Tom Gilson | May 24, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
OCLC releases more than 150 million WorldCat Entities as the foundation of a linked data infrastructure Citing an OCLC press release, Library Technology Guides reports that “OCLC has completed a project, funded in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation,...
by Tom Gilson | May 23, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
NASA and CHORUS sign participation agreement to expand public access to results of its funded research KnowledgeSpeak reports that “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has signed a participation agreement with CHORUS to expand public access...
by Tom Gilson | May 22, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
What Does My Library Need to Know about Ebook Laws? In this edition of American Libraries online column Letters of the Law , “Mary Minow and guest author Kyle K. Courtney discuss the library ebooks landscape and state-level efforts to institutionalize fair...
by Tom Gilson | May 21, 2022 | Featured Posts, Rumors
All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx is by Ed Simon, Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. It appears in JSTOR Daily. T. S. Eliot and Groucho MarxGetty...
by Tom Gilson | May 19, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, AND WEBINARS If you live in or near the Chicago metropolitan area, you’re just a drive or train ride away from SSP’s pre-meeting sessions, to be held on the first day of their 44th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk Hotel on...
by Tom Gilson | May 18, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award Citing a press release by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), infoDOCKET reports that The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are awarding five libraries...
by Tom Gilson | May 17, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
Institutions Partner With ACS (American Chemical Society) to Advance First California-Wide Transformative Open Access Agreement According to this press release “Three California consortia, representing nearly 60 academic and research institutions, and the...
by Tom Gilson | May 16, 2022 | In the Spotlight, Latest News, News
Texas A&M Weighs Sweeping Changes to Library According to Inside Higher ED “The Texas A&M University system is working on a plan that would make sweeping changes across its 10 libraries. Those changes, still being discussed, would include asking...