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Technology innovation drives adoption with more than 400 libraries in 40 countries embracing the Summon Service Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 20, 2012 Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business unit, commemorates the anniversary of introducing the Summon® service at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting in 2009. In just three years, the service has grown its unified index, from 200 million items to more than 800 million and built a client base from 2 beta...
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and National Geographic, one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, today announced an agreement to provide an online archive of more than 100 years of National Geographic magazine. Available to libraries this spring, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994...
LONDON, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/), the world's largest research collaboration platform, and the Columbia University Libraries (http://library.columbia.edu/) have agreed to jointly develop a graphical and user-friendly Citation Style Language editor. The tool will enable academic researchers to develop their own citation styles, significantly simplifying the creation of manuscripts for publication in academic, peer-reviewed journals. Both...
AMSTERDAM, January 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- $650,000 awarded to Innovative Libraries, New Scholars and Nurse Faculty Programs The Elsevier Foundation [http://www.elsevierfoundation.org ] announced today the 2011 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars award programs. In total, $650,000 has been committed to nine institutions around the world in addition to seven ongoing multiyear grants and the Nurse Faculty program. The...
The Western Australian Group of University Librarians Consortium (WAGUL) has selected Ingram Content Group as the sole supplier for print and digital content solutions. Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) January 05, 2012 As libraries adjust to meet the changing needs of readers, more, including The Western Australian Group of University Librarians Consortium (WAGUL), are turning to Ingram Content Group for print and digital content solutions. “Ingram has been a valued supplier to the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today announced its first Axis 360 installation at the award-winning King County Library System, the busiest library system in the U.S. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090529/CL24290LOGO ) "We are proud to announce King County Library System as the first installation of our Axis 360 digital media...
Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitized to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky. The Library needed a way of scanning the delicate old manuscripts and storing the files so that they could still be read in hundreds of years. The answer was the special file format used by ESA for most of its scientific satellites. In the 1970s ESA and NASA scientists developed ‘FITS’, the flexible image...
More than 700 books on computer technologies now hosted in PacktLib, Packt’s online digital library. PacktLib is a comprehensive and valuable resource for administrators, developers and hobbyists alike. (PRWEB) December 16, 2011 PacktLib, Packt Publishing’s online digital library, is now home to over 700 books on a variety of computing topics that enable readers to enrich their knowledge, increase their skills and capabilities and to find solutions to business based...
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LearningExpress, LLC, a leading eLearning technology company, today announced a strategic partnership with the Maine State Library to implement the LearningExpress Library(TM) and Popular Software Tutorials online learning platforms into its statewide public libraries. Both products can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. "In Maine, we are seeing a growing crisis of the digital divide among our patrons who need job...
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LearningExpress, LLC, a leading eLearning technology company, today announced a strategic partnership with the Delaware Division of Libraries to implement the LearningExpress Library(TM) online learning platform in its 32 libraries and the newly-formed Job Center@Delaware Libraries. The Delaware Division of Libraries has recently created four Job Centers in its libraries, in an effort to assist the more than 34,000 unemployed Delaware...
