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Information Today September 15, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis to Create a Digital U.S. Congressional Serial Set LexisNexis has announced a project to digitize the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, based on the microfiche set and companion Index created by Congressional Information Service. An ambitious product roll-out schedule has been established. |
Information Today October 2003 Paula Hane |
What's New in Linking, Archiving, and More Industry news seemed to slow a bit in August and early September while people squeezed in their last days of summertime enjoyment and students headed back to classrooms. But then the pace surged as companies rolled out projects and announced products that they planned to showcase. |
Information Today May 21, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA Partners with LexisNexis for Genealogical Data The companies said that by incorporating the two sources from Serial Set within HeritageQuest, the value of government documents for family history research becomes much more evident and easier to search. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today December 6, 2010 Barbie E. Keiser |
ProQuest Acquires Congressional Information Service (CIS) and University Publications of America (UPA) from LexisNexis According to Rodrigue (Rod) E. Gauvin, senior vice president of publishing at ProQuest, CIS has long been on its acquisition wish list. |
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Information Today June 20, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Readex Announces Digital Edition of American Broadsides and Ephemera... Two More Linking Deals with Google Scholar... H.W. Wilson Data to Power Bowker's Book Analysis System... |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
Information Today April 7, 2008 |
ProQuest's C19 Index Adds Index Records From LexisNexis The additional linking will provide mutual customers with a single point of access to C19, The Nineteenth Century Index of two bibliographic records: the American State Papers and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Information Today February 12, 2007 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
Information Today March 3, 2011 |
Readex to Launch Digital Edition of JPRS Reports, 1957-1994 This unique new resource -- fully searchable for the first time -- will feature English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal articles, newspaper articles, and more. |
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In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
Information Today June 30, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Moves Into the Public Library Market In what has to be viewed as a surprisingly low-key launch for a product in a brand new market, LexisNexis rather quietly announced its new Library Express service. |
D-Lib October 2003 |
In Brief Museums and the Online Archive of California Update and Report... King's College London Digital Consultancy Services... The European Library... Danish Libraries Offer Digital Sheet Music... etc. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
Searcher May 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
D-Lib May 2000 |
In Brief CNRI Announces New Version of the Handle System... Virtual Heritage is playing an important role in the interpretation and preservation of Cultural Heritage... Journal Abbreviation Sources... Asking the Experts: Digital Reference and the Virtual Reference Desk... etc. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats. |
Information Today September 4, 2014 |
WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
D-Lib February 2007 Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
Information Today January 24, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
Information Today March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
D-Lib February 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
D-Lib October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc. |
Information Today August 4, 2003 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
D-Lib October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
Information Today December 10, 2007 Barbara Quint |
The Library of Congress and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Working Group Report The recommendations of the report seem predominantly focused on book cataloging and, in that regard, how to curtail the Library of Congress' role in the future. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News PREMIS in METS Toolbox... EUscreen: Accessing and exploring European television heritage... Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (CLIF)... CeDAAME... Terrier 3.0 Release Announced... etc. |
Information Today January 28, 2013 |
New ProQuest Congressional Service Unveiled ProQuest unveiled its new ProQuest Congressional, which has been rebuilt with an all-new technological framework that supports richer, more in-depth exploration, and expanded use of its unique content. |
D-Lib January 2003 Mitchell et al. |
iVia Open Source Virtual Library System iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
Information Today December 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Hoover's Online Expands U.K., Canadian Offerings... Hoover's Online Expands U.K., Canadian Offerings... Dialog Enhances Dialog DataStar... ISI Web of Knowledge Offers Biological Abstracts... PsycEXTRA... etc. |
Information Today September 2, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Elsevier and ACS Agree to Link... ebrary Launches Library Center... ALA and Others Request Public Input on Homeland Security Procedures... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
D-Lib January 2002 Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search. |
D-Lib April 2002 Stephen Paul Davis |
Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner have written an excellent overview of the state of affairs in digital libraries... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2008 |
D-Lib -- In Brief News about a digital libraries curriculum, CrossRef, an independent membership association that provides a linking infrastructure for scholarly communication, and other reports on items of interest to librarians. |
Information Today April 28, 2011 |
Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. |