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EXTON, Pa., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today ceremonially signed into law changes that will modernize the state's Library Code, also known as Senate Bill 1225. "Technology is changing, the ways we learn are advancing and our libraries, as repositories of knowledge, need to keep up,'' Corbett said before signing the bill at the Chester County Public Library. The new law will help all of Pennsylvania's libraries by eliminating outdated mandates,...

BOSTON and OXFORD, England, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Credo Reference today announced the availability of a case study conducted with the American University of Paris, which is using its Literati solution to promote information literacy and research effectiveness. The study is freely available to anyone who registers at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AUP_Study. While Literati includes powerful technology and authoritative reference content, the most unique aspect of the...

MCHENRY, Ill., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently released survey of electronic book penetration and use among PreK-12 school libraries revealed that 67 percent of the PreK-12 schools that purchase eBooks buy them from Follett. The third annual Library Journal survey determined that FollettShelf remains the top vendor tapped by elementary schools and middle schools for eBooks. FollettShelf, the company's free cloud-based virtual bookshelf, is the vendor for 76 percent of...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced that Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado is the winner of the Out-of-the-Box Marketing Contest, launched in September at R-Squared - The Risk and Reward Conference. Auraria Library will receive $5,000 from Gale to make its marketing idea a reality. (Logo:...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is boosting the visibility of e-books in library collections by providing for the full text of an additional 400,000 e-books to be discovered and accessed as part of a broad search of library holdings. The initiative to improve e-book visibility began in early 2011 when Serials Solutions pioneered indexing of the contents of the HathiTrust collection in its Summon® discovery service. Just months later, ProQuest debuted the...

SEATTLE, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Serials Solutions(®), a ProQuest(®) business has launched Summon(®) Suggestions, a suite of features designed to enrich the Summon discovery service with automated and contextual research assistance that will lead users to better research outcomes. These features bring together a unique blend of librarian knowledge, community collaboration and global usage data to optimize the user experience and provide unprecedented research guidance at...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics today rolled out a national book collection program to benefit the South Africa Mobile Library Project, a part of the South African Department of Education's efforts to improve literacy levels across the country. Sony has established an external support network of key recycling vendors from its Take Back Recycling program to enable public donations of gently used children's books around the country through the month of...

SEATTLE, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Serials Solutions(®), a ProQuest(®) business and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have dramatically improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon(®) web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry and pharmacy subjects will be available to mutual subscribers of each company's...

LONDON, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the UK's largest teaching trusts and its largest university library system to provide Elsevier's pioneering 'Clinical Insight Engine' for hospital staff, researchers and clinical medical students Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it has signed a one-year agreement with Oxford University Hospitals NHS...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Just as the seasons flow from one to the next, so too will the younger generation continue to confound and infuriate the older generations before them. It’s simply the way of life. So, while it’s never difficult to write these youths off as different or doomed, it could be beneficial to both sides of the yard (both those on the porch and those encroaching upon it) to find some good in the other. For instance, many have...