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December 8, 2011 With WorldShare Platform, OCLC Emphasizes Data Access and Rebrands Web-scale ILS RLUK Announces New Publisher Terms; ARL and LYRASIS Sign Negotiation Agreement Best Databases 2011: Librarians Decide Which Databases Make the Grade SirsiDynix Releases Android and Customizable Versions of BookMyne App Deanna Marcum Named Managing Director of Ithaka S+R On the LJ Blogs There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch | Peer to Peer Review Occupy Textbooks: Drop Out and Try Something New | From the Bell Tower Best Sellers in European History
With WorldShare Platform, OCLC Emphasizes Data Access and Rebrands Web-scale ILS David Rapp OCLC announced December 5 the launch of  its WorldShare Platform, a new technical infrastructure to help libraries collaborate in the creation and sharing of new web applications. The platform tightly integrates with the recently launched cloud-based integrated library system (ILS) Web-scale Management Services, now rebranded WorldShare Management Services (WMS), and other services. At the same time, the nonprofit also announced that it will be opening new data centers overseas over the next year. Read More...
RLUK Announces New Publisher Terms; ARL and LYRASIS Sign Negotiation Agreement David Rapp Research Libraries UK (RLUK), which represents 30 research libraries in the UK and Ireland, announced on December 1 that JISC Collections had “secured better terms and conditions” for the UK higher-ed market as part of negotiated deals with the two largest academic journal publishers in the UK, Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell. In a separate announcement on November 29, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and LYRASIS announced that they have signed an agreement designating LYRASIS, the largest U.S. regional nonprofit library membership organization, as a negotiating agent for online content on behalf of interested ARL members. Read More...
Best Databases 2011: Librarians Decide Which Databases Make the Grade Savannah Schroll Guz Not all databases are created equal. Some are a cut above, whether we’re speaking in terms of aesthetics, scope, or functionality. Many have made startling advances since LJ’s first E-Reference Ratings articles appeared in 2008. To learn which resources have emerged as the most remarkable tools in a sea of digital research options, we polled a group of librarians and LJ reviewers to choose the “best” of 2011. Read More...
SirsiDynix Releases Android and Customizable Versions of BookMyne App David Rapp Library automation company SirsiDynix unveiled the newest version of its BookMyne mobile app (3.0) on December 6, adding Android device support. The company also announced BookMyne+, a version of the app that can be customized for a fee. Read More...
Deanna Marcum Named Managing Director of Ithaka S+R Michael Kelley Deanna Marcum will become the managing director of  Ithaka S+R effective January 1, 2012, the not-for-profit research and consulting service announced December 8. Marcum has been the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. She also served as the president of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the dean of the Catholic University School of Library and Information Science. The American Libraries Association (ALA) awarded her the Melvil Dewey Medal, its highest honor, in June. Read More...
On the LJ Blogs A Fantastic CLIR Workshop at Goucher College, aka Nancy Fried Foster is an Indefatigable Goddess | E-Views Application Collection Development | Tennant: Digital Libraries Learning What Can't Be Taught | Annoyed Librarian California Is the Future | Annoyed Librarian
There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch | Peer to Peer Review Barbara Fister Barbara Fister writes: There are a lot of reasons that it's difficult to change the way we publish scholarship. A majority of faculty don't think there's anything wrong with the system that giving the library more money won't fix. Read More...
Occupy Textbooks: Drop Out and Try Something New | From the Bell Tower Steven Bell Steven Bell writes:  When cities around the country got fed up with Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters camping in the center of town, municipal officials took action to avoid these encampments gaining permanent status. Where is the next best place for the protesters to go? Why not local universities? They have lots of sympathetic students and green spaces for camping. They're known as locations for past protests. And they have libraries that offer information. So move to campuses they did—or at least they tried. Read More...
Best Sellers in European History February 2011 to date as identified by YBP Library Services 1) Bismarck: A Life Steinberg, Jonathan Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199782529. $34.95 2) The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War Shephard, Ben Alfred A. Knopf 2010. ISBN 9781400040681. $35 3) The Crimean War: A History Figes, Orlando Metropolitan: Henry Holt 2011. ISBN 9780805074604. $35 Read More...
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