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Flip It Open, a pilot program from Cambridge University Press (CUP), garnered a positive response, leading to 100-plus academic monographs to be included in an expanded OA scheme. Flip It [...]

The article highlights BioOne and CSIRO Publishing's expanded partnership, introducing a curated collection of over 200 ebooks to be featured in the BioOne Digital Library, targeting environmental, plant, and animal sciences. Topics discussed include American Library Association's grants for small and rural libraries to enhance accessibility, with 310 recipients identified in the latest round and a third round opening in the fall .

Words of Wisdom '[O]ur concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.' --Carl Sagan Jisc launched three new services: Library Hub Discover, Library Hub [...]

OCLC has made WorldCat Works available as linked data. This data, native to the web, will increase the discoverability of library collections through a variety of sites and services available [...]

New York University Libraries announced the creation of Arabic Collections Online (ACO). It will be a publicly available, digital library of public domain Arabic-language content. There will be a website [...]

The article discusses the transformation of a photo digitization project, initiated by dermatology resident Dr. Garrett Coman and conducted by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, into an Open Educational Resource named UtahDERM. It mentions that the project digitized a vast collection of dermatology slides, expanding beyond flashcards to develop an educational platform with standardized metadata and a unique image viewer.

The Normative Data Project (NDP) for Libraries announced that its new online interface is now available to libraries that contributed transaction- and collection-level data to the project. Other libraries can [...]

The article emphasizes the importance of historical data in understanding trends in academic library collections. It discusses the evolution of library budgets, collection expenditures, and resource access over the past two decades, focusing on shifts towards electronic resources and the impact on library systems and technologies.

The New Jersey State Library has announced that the first statewide electronic interlibrary loan system will be implemented in New Jersey. Installation began in mid-April, with 180 of the state's [...]

The University of North Carolina (UNC)--Chapel Hill Library announced the release of three new online digital collections: The Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection, Tobacco Bag Stringing, and The Billy E. [...]

Takes a look at libraries that make their collections available on the World Wide Web. The growing use of automation and online library resources; Examples of collections on the Web, including the American Memory Project from the Library of Congress; Other collections from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Follett Software Co. has expanded the functionality of its WebCollection Plus online library collection access software, making it available for Novell NetWare v5.1 servers. WebCollection Plus makes it possible for [...]

Introduction The cornerstone of library science education rests on the foundation of S.R. Ranganathan's five laws of library science, with the second law being most pertinent to the expansion of [...]

Serials Solutions announced a new feature of its Summon discovery service. Summon Spotlighting will provide display options for specialized content types, allowing improved discoverability of libraries' special collections. Digital collections [...]

ProQuest and Elsevier Health are adding 36 medical journals to The Lancet medical titles from Elsevier already available on ProQuest's information products. The new titles will cover fields ranging from [...]

Follett Software Co. has announced that it has updated its WebCollection Plus software, which allows students to search information resources electronically in English, Spanish, or French, making it easier for [...]

Now available from Libraries Unlimited is Special Collections 2.0: New Technologies for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archival Collections (ISBN: 978-1-5915-8720-0, 150 pp., $45) by Lynne M. Thomas and Beth Whittaker. [...]

For years, libraries have been establishing programs and services to encourage faculty members and instructors to adopt low-cost or no-cost textbook alternatives. Textbooks and course material costs have long concerned [...]

Columbia University has announced that the U.S. Department of Education will fund two collaborative projects initiated by Columbia University Libraries and the University of Chicago to make South Asian research [...]

The article offers information about how book challengers and defenders are now using technology, such as online keyword searches, to compile lists of books to target or to promote reading diversely. It also highlights how book challengers have created websites that take book passages out of context to promote objections, while book advocates use the internet to facilitate access to challenged titles and offer support to one another.

The University of Michigan (U-M) Library announced access to an electronic collection of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Research Bulletins and miscellaneous publications related to organic agriculture at http://www.hti.umich.edu/n/nal. [...]

R. R. Bowker announced the launch of Ulrich's Resource Linker, a tool that integrates all of a library's periodicals through a single service, allowing patrons to connect to holdings by [...]

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) has announced the debut of the Collaborative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI). CDRI provides a freely available, Web-searchable, central repository of digital resources contributed by [...]

Reports that the University of Michigan announced that an online search service, called OAlster, designed to create access to a wide-ranging collection of digital resources geared to the academic community, is available through the University Library. Features of OAlster; Types of information included in OAlster, such as scholarly collections not previously indexed in any popular Web search services.

ALA recently published Assessing Service Quality: Satisfying the Expectations of Library Customers, second edition (ISBN: 978-0-8389-1021-4, 224 pp., $65) by Peter Hernon and Ellen Altman. This new edition addresses technology's [...]

The Oxford University Press released the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection, which builds upon its Core Collection of more than 100 books to add the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as [...]

EBSCO has announced that due to its advanced linking technology, called EBSCO SmartLinks, EBSCOhost database subscribers have available more than 100 million records with access to full text. EBSCO SmartLinks [...]

Grove's Dictionaries, Inc. has announced that its publication The Dictionary of Art--the 34-volume publication and the most comprehensive historical reference work produced--is available on the Web. The Grove Dictionary of [...]

The Library of Congress has announced that guidelines for entering the third and final round of the Library of Congress! Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, which enables libraries to create [...]

The Burlington County (New Jersey) Library System has won a $15,000 grant from Bell Atlantic and the New Jersey Library Association to improve service on its bookmobile. Using wireless technology, [...]

The University of Michigan (U-M) has announced that the University Library and the U-M Museum of Natural History have created a Web site featuring images and descriptions of thousands of specimens of fish, mammals, and fungi local to the Great Lakes region. The site draws material from the U-M Museum of Natural History, more than 16,000 digital images and 115,000 data records from the Fish and Mammal divisions of the university, and material from the Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collections of the U-M Herbarium, made available electronically by the University Library. The databases list both scientific and common names and include records for specimens collected in the Great Lakes region from the 1850s to the present. Links among related records assist the user in navigating the collections.

Ex Libris has announced the release of SFX 2.0, the new version of its OpenURL link server. SFX provides a library's users with dynamically created, context-sensitive links to services that are defined by the librarian on the basis of the institution's electronic collections and policies. New features include specialized tools for localization of linking for consortia managers, supporting a range of consortium types, from fully centralized to fully decentralized; an XML Gateway enabling cross-domain communication between different SFX servers or different SFX instances on a single server; full Unicode-compliance; enhanced Web tools; and XML- and HTML-based options for generating A-Z journal title lists with the optional delivery of comprehensive MARC records. These include linking to OCLC WorldCat on the OCLC FirstSearch service to check library holdings information, linking to the full text of journal articles available in OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online Fulfillment, and linking through OCLC ILLiad interlibrary loan service.

Focuses on the use of the Internet for libraries to index their archives collections. Index of obituary records made available to the public by the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute, Indiana; Use of a Microsoft Access 97 database which was later converted to Hypertext Markup Language; Decision to add a search feature to the database; Other archive projects attempted in Vigo County, such as the 1820 Census and Township Histories.

Over the past few years, it's been fascinating to watch as museums and archives follow in the footsteps of libraries by digitizing and providing access to their collections, which have [...]

Relates news briefs on digital libraries. A partnership at Cornell University with computer scientists and librarians to develop better strategies for documents and other data; The funding by the United States Department of Education of two projects at Columbia University to make South Asian resources and library collections more available through enhancement and use of the World Wide Web.

Announces that several online collections from the Library of Congress are available from American Memory, a project of the National Digital Library Program. Features of the online collections; Vendor contact information.

Announces that portraits of all the United States presidents and most of the first ladies are available from the Library of Congress American Memory online collections. Brief background on American Memory; World Wide Web address.

Notes the availability of the 20th edition of Brodart's Elementary School Library Collection (ESLC) in print and CD-ROM format. Other available formats for the children's material software; Contact point and World Wide Web address.

Reports that the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program is adding three new collections of American historical information. Collection contents; Names of the three new collections; Access available through the Library's Learning Page education software; Contact points.

The article presents a study which examined the use of electronic books (ebook) at the Delaware County Community College (DCCC) in Pennsylvania amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in March-December 2020. Other topics include the DCCC librarians' efforts to explore ebook subscriptions to support students, and the ebook acquisition models used by the library like one-time purchase titles, large-scale collections, and patron-driven acquisition.

A survey conducted by ProQuest shows that in the face of impending budget cuts, North American academic libraries are attempting to protect their funding through more aggressive marketing and outreach. [...]

The article presents the significant source of stress towards mitigating the responsibilities. Topics include creating forms and keeping track of agenda items; number of workflow technologies available which being cost-prohibitive, requiring more advanced user knowledge, and not meeting organizational needs; and modifying Springshare's default web form with fields for collecting information.

When the librarians at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library set out to decide what platform to use for the University of Georgia School of Law's institutional repository, they wanted [...]

Gale has announced that it is launching an eBook program. Through an alliance with netLibrary, Gale's classic reference works will be available in versions that library patrons can search and [...]

The article focuses on the oral history project curated by McEntegart Hall Library Archives in collaboration with the honors program at St. Joseph's College (SJC) in Brooklyn, N.Y. Topics include the project was inaugurated in spring as a part of commemorative projects to celebrate the centennial of the college's founding; and oral History collects memories and personal commentaries of historical significance through recorded interviews.

This section provides an update on several new online information services launched in the U.S. as of September 2005. The Normative Data Project for Libraries announced that its new online interface is now available to libraries that contributed transaction- and collection-level data to the project .Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) implemented Ask a Librarian, a pilot project within the Open WorldCat program that allows searchers to submit questions to librarians through online reference services of OCLC member libraries. Thomson Gale launched a beta version of AccessMyLibrary.com, which allows Thomson Gale's content to be crawled and indexed by major search engines.

The article offers information on libraries strive to increase the impact of their collections and services to their communities, large-scale implementations of resource management systems and discovery environments provide a great opportunity to do. Topics include the libraries are shifting from individual implementations of ILSs to collectively shared infrastructure, and the generally interested in supplementing their own local collections with resources available from partner institutions.

The article evaluates Digital Commons, a product of bepress.

The 21st-century academic library depends on reliably functioning, responsive, innovative, and robust IT services. Although Campus IT supports departments across the entire institution (such as accounting, human resources, purchasing, and [...]

The University of Florida's Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage is a federally funded collaborative project that draws together four different repositories of hidden and fragile archival material. These archives were [...]