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NetGalley, ALA Offer Librarians Benefit Program and More
NetGalley and the American Library Association are teaming up to offer librarians a NetGalley membership benefit program.
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B&T to Install Axis 360 Media Library In Washington State
Baker & Taylor has reached an agreement with the King County Library System of Washington State for the first installation of B&T’s Axis 360, a media circulation system for enhanced digital content and Blio, multimedia e-reading software developed in conjunction with KFNB Technologies.
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Baker & Taylor Acquires Bridgeall Libraries
Baker & Taylor has acquired Bridgeall Libraries, a Glasgow, Scotland based technology developer specializing in software that helps libraries manage their collections more efficiently.
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X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Donates Archive to Columbia University
Renowned comics writer and novelist Chris Claremont, best known for his many years writing Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men series, has reached an agreement to donate his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Kenney Leaves 'SLJ' for White Plains Public Library
Brian Kenney, editor-in-chief of School Library Journal, and a former editorial director of Publishers Weekly, is leaving SLJ to become the director of the White Plains Public Library.
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Oxford University Press Offers its E-Book Platform to University Presses
After Oxford University Press launched Oxford Scholarship Onlin in 2003, the press is ready to share the successful platform.
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Kindle Library Lending Goes Live
Amazon and library e-book vendor OverDrive announced this morning its recently announced plan to allow library lending via the Kindle and Kindle app is now live. The service, which will be available at some 11,000 libraries across the U.S. at launch, enables libraries to expand their e-book lending to the nation’s most popular e-reading platform.
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PWxyz: Peter Brantley Weighs in on Orphan Works
After the Authors Guild filed suit against HathiTrust's orphan works plan, AG members discovered some of the candidates on the orphan list were in fact not orphans. The University of Michigan has since suspended the orphan release to improve its processes. But, in our concern over whether or not any given work might be located, notes Peter Brantley, we risk a "trees-and-forest misdirection." It it is safe to assert that there are many works on library shelves for which rights status is uncertain and must be clarified, he notes, and rather than focus on the status of the 140 individual titles in the HathiTrust plan, we should focus on how we can make the determination of rights status more efficient. Read more at PWxyz.
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Library Groups Blast Authors Guild Lawsuit
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), a group of three major library associations, issued a statement yesterday expressing “deep disappointment” over the lawsuit filed this week by the Authors Guild against HathiTrust and its research library partners.
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Library Bats Take Flight
Librarians across the nation are on the lookout for bats—three stuffed, plush bats by the names of Green, Red and Blue, to be exact. Following the success of Bats at the Library and Bats at the Beach, Brian Lies is drumming up anticipation for a third volume, Bats at the Ballgame (Harcourt, 2010) by sending the three intrepid travelers (equipped with passports) on a whirlwind tour.
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