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Information Today April 7, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Announces Video Publishing Plan for 2011 Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to expand its offerings rapidly -- to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013 |
Information Today September 12, 2011 |
Filmakers Library Adds The Legacy Project Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announced the addition of The Dramatists Guild Fund's new interview series, The Legacy Project, to its catalogue of video titles. |
Information Today July 2, 2013 |
Academic Video Store From Alexander Street Press Opens Its Virtual Doors Alexander Street Press unveiled its online Academic Video Store offering academic DVDs and streaming videos for librarians and educators. |
Information Today June 12, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Debuts New Collections Alexander Street Press introduced new online academic collections for international business, human resource management, counseling and therapy, and Asian film studies. |
Information Today January 20, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Streaming Video and Music Developments at Alexander Street Press Alexander Street Press doesn't act like a company struggling in a tough content market and dealing with library budget cuts. |
Information Today August 16, 2012 |
Alexander Street Press Expands Its Film Collections Alexander Street Press expanded its visual arts offerings with the release of two streaming video collections, Silent Film Online and New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present. |
Wired May 22, 2009 Sonia Zjawinski |
Streaming Hard-to-Find Films for Cinephiles TheAuteurs.com delivers video-on-demand specifically for film buffs. |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
Information Today April 5, 2010 |
Free Access in April to American History in Video The collection, which was named both a 2009 Booklist Editor's Choice selection and a 2009 Library Journal Best Reference, gives patrons at subscribing libraries access to a current total of more than 4,000 complete newsreels and documentaries from leading video providers |
Information Today July 30, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Starts Patron-Driven Acquisition Program Alexander Street Press signed an agreement with Scotland's University of Dundee library to launch a patron-driven acquisition program. |
Information Today November 28, 2013 |
OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library can borrow videos from the library's website and view them on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. |
Information Today November 17, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Introduces Academic Video Store Alexander Street Press announced the launch of the Academic Video Store, with more than 1,400 individual video titles covering a broad range of subjects. |
Information Today September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included. |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
ebrary Releases Extended Access Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use. |
Information Today August 30, 2010 |
ebrary Offers CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Published annually, the CHOICE OAT list represents the top 10% of more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media, and internet resources reviewed by CHOICE that year. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2008 P. Toby Graham |
Civil Rights Digital Library The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) is the most ambitious and comprehensive initiative to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
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 July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
D-Lib October 2006 Judith M. Panitch |
Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is aggressively expanding its digital library program. |
Information Today January 6, 2015 |
The U.K. and Ireland Get Their Own Academic Complete ebrary (a ProQuest business) rolled out a new edition of its Academic Complete subscription database that is designed for researchers in the U.K. and Ireland. |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today March 8, 2010 |
Alexander Street Press Jazzes Up Its Collections In 2011, Alexander Street's plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of 1 million recordings. The company also promises no price increases. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
Alexander Street Press Debuts Food Studies Archive Alexander Street Press introduced the Food Studies Online collection, which is composed of 80,000 pages of primary source materials, images, and secondary works. |
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? |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
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. |
Information Today March 18, 2013 |
Reprints Desk Launches Document Delivery Service for Academic Institutions Reprints Desk, Inc.announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. |
Information Today November 7, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Hosts Streaming Media Libraries have a new option for streaming their multimedia content: Alexander Street Press announced a single-platform hosting service for music and videos. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2006 |
The Envelope Please Here are the The Council on Foundations' 2006-2007 Film & Video Festival Winners: Aging Out... Brother to Brother... Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise... etc. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson |
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
CIVICTechnologies Launches CommunityConnect CommunityConnect is a SaaS solution that helps public libraries knowledgeably allocate money for resources, services, and collection development by predicting people's needs and interests, neighborhood by neighborhood. |
Information Today April 28, 2015 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
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. |
ONLINE May 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy, Recommended Reading on Virtual Libraries Virtual libraries, digital libraries, hybrid libraries--whatever you call them, they're a part of our life. This month, we examine a collection of books to help you get or stay up-to-speed on the latest issues in cyber-librarianship.... |
D-Lib September 2000 Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |