Posts Tagged ‘Library’
An Irish Learning Opportunity
Okay, it is Irish only in that it is being held on St. Patrick’s Day, but it will be a learning opportunity. Heather Hedden, senior vocabulary editor at Cengage Learning, will be facilitating the webinar “An Introduction to Taxonomies” on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. A teacher at Simmons School of Library and Information…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity in Metadata and Book Sales
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering an in-person or webinar learning opportunity on Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00-4:00 p.m. (EST). The topic will be “Increasing Discoverability and Sales Through Metadata: Enhancing Reach of Scholarly Books.” This seminar will address questions like “How exactly do researchers find books these days?” and “What role do librarians…
Read MoreThe Value of History
In Ireland 1922, Free State forces led the occupation of the Public Records Office of the Four Courts as part of the Battle of Dublin. As a result of the battle, there were explosions in the building and historical documents were lost to the fires. Ernie O’Malley, deemed the leader of the group, was quoted as saying…
Read MoreFighting for Copyrights
Earlier this week a multitude of authors, publishers, rights organizations, and copyright experts from around the world filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Authors Guild’s petition asking the Court to hear its case that Google must be held accountable for digitally copying millions of copyrighted books without permission or payment. This interesting news came…
Read MoreMore Access to Databases
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine has announced the launch of the Health Literacy Tool Shed. This interesting news came from the Library Journal in their article, “Reference: National Library of Medicine Releases New Health Literacy Tool Shed Website.” The Health Literacy Tool Shed is a free,…
Read MoreLibrary Data Open to Access
Helsinki University Library’s open data web service offers the vast majority of the library’s data in easy-to-use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. This interesting news came from the blog post, “Helsinki University Library opens its data for the general public.” Citizens and businesses can retrieve library’s data from the service for personal or commercial purposes. There are…
Read MoreArchiving History
The new year starts differently for everyone. For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, it begins with the daunting task of computerizing municipal records. Well, he is not personally taking on the task, but his administration is scanning millions of papers that have been stored away in private warehouses throughout the city and in New…
Read MoreDigitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking
The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and atlases formerly owned by King George III. The British Library is approximately one quarter through the very large project and plans to put the whole collection online for open access once the…
Read MoreBeing Open
Over the years, open access has evolved beyond a core of faculty and librarian activists and achieved acceptance across many libraries and publishers alike. It wasn’t always easy and still encounters small hurdles, but many publishers have open access models of their own, and academic libraries are building offices of scholarly communication. This interesting topic came…
Read MorePartnership Brings Value to Historical Documents
EBSCO Information Services has partnered with Portico in an effort to preserve digital collections from its Digital Archives products, mostly historical source materials used by scholars and students. PRWeb brought this news to us in their article, EBSCO Partners with Portico to Ensure Long-Term Availability of Digital Archives.” EBSCO first launched the Digital Archives in 2009 and…
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