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Expanded Digital Facilities and Services

By Melody Smith | June 20, 2011

Thought Equity Motion has expanded its facilities and services to include scanning, library management, archiving, metadata, and distribution services for media.

Digital Libraries Present New Challenges

By Melody Smith | June 10, 2011

Bibliographic data seems like it would be a fairly simple and straightforward thing. However, it is really just the beginning of the sorts of data tracked in library catalogs. What about metadata standards and information classification systems?

Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries

By Melody Smith | June 10, 2011

With more and more information being accessible via digital libraries, it seems appropriate that The Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries will take place on September 29, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

Oxford Medicine Online Launches New Resource

By Melody Smith | June 9, 2011

Oxford Medicine Online has launched Oxford Medical Libraries Online, a new resource that offers a collection of subject-based libraries containing over 50 invaluable short guides.

Digital Library Smackdown

By Melody Smith | May 31, 2011

The Digital Public Library of America initiative has created a lively debate on the DPLA’s discussion listserv about how any such institution should be constituted. David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryCity.org and founder of TeleRead, has been advocating for well-stocked national digital libraries for many years and is an active participant on the listserv.

SAE Digital Library Gets Redesign

By Melody Smith | May 4, 2011 |

SAE International has announced a complete redesign of its Digital Library, the comprehensive technical paper and standards solution used by automobile and aerospace engineers.

Multilingual UDC Summary Shows Progress

By Melody Smith | April 26, 2011

The Multilingua Universal Decimal Classification Summary project, containing an abridged schedule of over 2000 classes with notes and examples, continues to progress with 40 languages online, some completely translated and others in various stages of translation.

New Grant Funds Digital Research Center

By Melody Smith | April 18, 2011

Emory University is soon to have a coffeehouse-like environment in which students can work in cross-discipline collaboration and allow researcher access to the library’s vast experts on all things library. This will differ from other digital research centers because of the cross-discipline collaboration potential.

What Does the Future Hold for Libraries?

By Melody Smith | April 18, 2011

A table of powerhouses gathered to discussion a slew of topics from the impact of cloud computing and open source ILSs to issues surrounding user engagement, the digital divide, and declining library budgets.

EDS and World Book Team Up

By Melody Smith | April 13, 2011

A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and World Book will bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English language titles as well as French and Spanish language reference tools.