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Challenging Yourself, Literally
By now everyone has likely read or heard about the 4-year old girl from Gainesville, Georgia who has read more than 1,000 books already in her young life. This is outstanding, especially when you compare it to a typical American will read about four books in one year. Even more serious readers only make it to…
Read MoreWorking With Librarians
Library budgets continue to shrink but expectations remain the same, or even increase. Librarians and information professionals are forced to get creative. This interesting information came to us from Talking New Media in their article, “Cambridge University Press embarks on project to improve discoverability of library resources.” Cambridge University Press has embarked on a huge project to improve…
Read MoreLearning Differently
Just what is personalized learning? It is a set of strategies that teachers can implement. The terminology sometimes changes to adaptive learning, but the distinction is like that of a tool and a teaching technique. The difference is necessary to the basic logic of how the various parts of any teaching intervention work together to…
Read MoreNew Digitization Project Increases Access
Northern Illinois University recently announced a new digitization project in their release,”University Libraries awarded more than $448,000 for digitization project.” The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded the University Libraries, in collaboration with the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University, with a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant for $448,893 to digitize…
Read MoreHighlights of University Presses
It is easy to think of university presses as focused primarily on humanities and social science. While that may apply to many, there are some that include important critiques that contribute to and shape the academic publishing world. The writers at The Scholarly Kitchen shared some of their favorites in their post, “University Press Books We Loved…
Read MoreNew Publishing Arrangements Enhances Customer Service
Atypon has signed multi-year agreements with two leading publishers. The American Physiological Society (APS) and Health Affairs are now part of the widely used online publishing platform, Literatum. Atypon brought this news to our attention in their article, “The American Physiological Society and Health Affairs Both Moving to Atypon’s Literatum Online Publishing Platform.” APS will house 13 journals,…
Read MoreDigital’s Impact on Publishing
Few other industries have undergone as much change as publishing has in recent years. On top of that, customer service demands continue to rise. This interesting information came to us from EContent in their article, “A Guide to Digital Experience Management for Publishers.” Digital experience management (DXM) is all about providing superior customer experiences through a…
Read MorePublishing Journal Has One Decade in Their Belt
PLOS ONE published its first papers ten years ago. Since that time they have honored their mission to be an open, public venue for all rigorous scientific research from every discipline. The journal that promotes open science and access to the peer-reviewed literature for all has published more than 165,000 articles in its first decade. This interesting topic came…
Read MoreHistorical Archive Digitized
Gale has launched Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 in what seems like a very timely digital archive. The collection includes records from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and focuses on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. Cengage brought this interesting information to our attention in…
Read MoreLearn More About Data Visualization
An educational opportunity in the form of a webinar is available for January 24th at 12:00 p.m. (EST). The webinar is brought to you by the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and is titled, “Achieving Better Visual Communication: Best Practices in Data Visualization.” The webinar is being facilitated by Teresa Larsen, PhD, President and…
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