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A Look at Out-of-Print Books and Libraries
News | www.resourceshelf.com | 16 hours 39 minutes ago
From the Article:Using data collected from collections-development specialists at 144 institutions – more than 86 percent of them academic libraries – Tafuri shows the role that used and discount book services such as Abebooks, Alibris, and Amazon now play. Most of the libraries responding (59
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/25/a-look-at-out-of-print-books-and-libraries/
Librarians: A Dog's Best Friend
News | www.schoollibraryjournal.com | 20 hours 31 minutes ago
A handful of school librarians across the country are opening packages from Lerner Publishing to find an enclosed book from Elaine Landau’s Best Dogs Ever (Lerner, 2010) series dedicated to them.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6708485.html?nid=4660
Is It Bizarre? Or Am I Missing Somethin'?
Blog | www.libraryjournal.com | Nov 25, 2009
So my cousin sends me a link to this article, "Reviving the Academic Library," from Inside Higher Ed, and I read it, and I re-read it, and I still don't get it -- is this a bizarre take on librarians in academe, or am I missing somethin'?
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1100000310/post/540050854.html?nid=4328
Loeb Music Exhibition Explores Mazepa Myth - HCL News - Harvard College Library
News | hcl.harvard.edu | Nov 24, 2009
In the three centuries since his death in 1709, the story of Ivan Mazepa assumed the mantle of legend, inspiring dozens of composers, artists and writers. A new exhibition at Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library traces the roots of the Mazepa myth, through dozens of scores and opera libretti, as well as art
http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/articles/2009/mazepa_exhibition.cfm
Revised Google Book deal disappoints many
News | www.eschoolnews.com | Nov 24, 2009
College and university library officials are largely disappointed with Googleâ s decision to exclude non-English books from its digital library in a concession to critics of a proposed legal settlement, saying the move would cut Googleâ s massive online collection in half and could hamper campus
Libraries Explore Big Ideas to Overcome Small Budgets - Libraries - The Chronicle of Higher Education
News | chronicle.com | Nov 23, 2009
That problem will ease in time, Mr. Reilly believes, as researchers become more comfortable with the idea that they can get their hands on the material even if it isnt all on the campus-library shelves. The solution is to get information out to the researchers about how these
VLA Server will be Unavailable Monday Nov. 23.
Blog | www.vla.org | Nov 20, 2009
Due to electrical work being performed at Radford University, the VLA Server and blog will be unavailable Monday Nov. 23.Note: Google Groups are unaffected by the downtime. The server will be brought back online ASAP once power is restored. Thanks for your patience.Start Slide Show
Elsevier sponsors the Jacob-and-Wilhelm-Grimm Center of the Humboldt University in Berlin
News | www.elsevier.com | Nov 20, 2009
Berlin, 20 November 2009 – Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, promotes the new central library of the Humboldt University in Berlin with a generous donation.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01367
Reading in Splendour: The new Central Library at Humboldt University in Berlin
News | www.goethe.de | Nov 20, 2009
The Humboldt brothers envisioned the totality and unity of the arts and sciences as their ideal. Christoph Markschies, the president of Berlin’s Humboldt University, now sees that ideal realized in the consolidation of the humanities libraries at his alma mater. ...
DataONE (Observation Network for Earth) Project at UNM receives $20 million award (USA)
Blog | xrefer.blogspot.com | Nov 19, 2009
"The DataONE office, based within both the Office of the Vice President of Research and University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded $20 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support its
