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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched four Gale Digital Collection archives for academic and special libraries, now available on the Gale Artemis: Primary Sources platform: the News Features & Internal [...]

Kanopy, which has 2,500-plus academic library customers, is making its collection of more than 30,000 films available to North American public libraries through a pay-per-play, upfront, or hybrid license model. [...]

* OCLC's Choreo Insights library analytics solution is now available to North American libraries. It uses data from WorldCat to help libraries make collection development decisions by comparing detailed subject [...]

* BiblioCommons introduced BiblioApps for Android devices to aid public libraries in patron engagement. Already available for iOS devices, BiblioApps provides a way to promote 'the library's collections, staff lists, [...]

The Library of Congress (LC) awarded EBSCO Information Services a contract to develop and implement an open source IT platform that will update how the LC's physical and digital collections [...]

Exact Editions and Future PLC launched the Future Music Collection, a combined subscription to five magazines: Computer Music, Guitar Techniques, Future Music, Total Guitar, and Guitarist. Available for institutional libraries, [...]

The article offers information on the controlled digital lending (CDL), ebook model by which libraries digitize materials in their collection and make them available for lending. It further discusses that the largest CDL projects was developed by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization most widely known for the Wayback Machin; the National Emergency Library during COVID-19 by the Internet Archive; and impact of CDL model on publishers' markets.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with the Library of Congress (LC) for a new collaboration: LC will become an official DPLA content hub. Its first batch [...]

For an expanded version of this article and links to all of the websites mentioned, visit newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/ Whats-New-With-Public-Library-EbookVendors-151175.asp. Library ebook vendors sign contracts with publishers to get books delivered to [...]

One of the greatest misconceptions about video games that still lingers to this day is that playing and enjoying them is a solitary experience. There's the stereotypical image of the [...]

The article focuses on how LIBRARIES TAP INTO THE ZEITGEIST EVEN WHEN DENIED ACCESS. Topics discussed include librarians explain why they're Bridgerton fans and want to share it with their community; and Bridgerton takes place in the early 1800s and centers on the aristocratic Bridgerton family; and Librarians are finding ways to connect with their patrons about this wildly popular show.

The article presents several resources that librarians can use to learn about the subculture of invented languages. Also cited are the age old practice of invented languages including the Lingua Ignota as the first recorded artificial language, the use of the video channel YouTube to learn about constructed languages, and some invented words like 'Elvish,' 'Klingon,' and 'Dothraki.'

A recent Campus Technology article notes that according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, "library collections in higher education now contain more digital items than physical" (campustechnology.com/ articles/2018/12/12/digital-dominatesin-college-libraries.aspx). [...]

Gale has announced plans to engage with one of the most widely spoken languages in the world by working to digitize a program of Arabic primary sources and reference materials [...]

Sustainable Collection Services (SCS), the data-driven deselection company for libraries, was acquired by OCLC in January. The company, which has worked with more than 150 libraries since 2011 (see 'Sustainable [...]

One of the U.K.'s best-known historians recently ruffled the British Library's feathers following comments related to the Black Lives Matter movement. David Starkey gave an interview at the end of [...]

About 1,800 attendees gathered in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 4--8, 2019, for the 39th Charleston Conference. With a well-attended exhibit hall, plenary sessions, poster sessions, and a wide variety of other [...]

The ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition, held June 20-25, 2019, in Washington, D.C., kicked off with an opening keynote from Jason Reynolds (author of the middlegrade Track series, among other [...]

When Charles Darwin penned a single page outlining his theory of evolution, it would have seemed fanciful that 160 years later, it would be valued at 490,000 [pounds sterling] (about [...]

When you think of the U.S. federal government and libraries, your first thought is probably of the Library of Congress (LC). As the nation's largest library, it is devoted to [...]

The article offers publishing and libraries news briefs on topics including Simba Information's report on global professional and scholarly e-book publishing, Patron Point's online training series for public libraries, Thomson Reuters' addition of the UK Supreme Court Dockets to Westlaw, Ithaka S+R's research project on AI in higher education, and OCLC's Choreo Insights library analytics solution for North American libraries.

As part of Alexander Street's Open Music Library (OML; openmusiclibrary.org) initiative, music scholars, students, teachers, and librarians can work toward building what could become the world's most comprehensive open network [...]

The article discusses news briefs associated with information service industry. It is noted that a contract has been provided to EBSCO Information Services by the Library of Congress to develop and implement an open source information technology platform. It is noted that the Public Library Association has revealed the availability of its 2022–2026 strategic plan, which is focused on equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Anything is possible in children's storytelling, although in England, libraries tend to use authors of children's books to attract youngsters to storytelling events. It's different in Malmo, a university city [...]

Further evidence that copyright protection terms appear to be heading in only one direction comes from Argentina. The country's ruling party, Front for Victory, recently proposed a draft bill extending [...]

Publishers need to appreciate that the business of being an academic librarian has never been more complex. Along with all of the long-standing needs of managing an institution and a [...]

The article offers information on a 39th Charleston Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4–8, 2019. Topics discussed include information on efforts of Internet Archive to digitize their collections allowing the libraries to lend digital copies of their print books; challenges involving global warming, ocean pollution, food and water security; and links between print and electronic books.

Libraries in the European Union (EU) appear to have been given a dim green light to digitize books in their collections and make them available to readers on dedicated terminals. [...]

The article offers information on the Charles Darwin's handwritten drafts and personally signed pieces create an incredibly powerful impression that simply could not be achieved from looking at a digital version or even a published copy. Topics discussed include the temporary export ban was prompted by a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, run by the U.K.'s Arts Council.

The article evaluates several products related to information industry including the BiblioApps from BiblioCommons; the Children's Literarture and Culture from Adam Matthew Digital; and the open+ count and open+ reserve from Bibliotheca.

The article offers several products news including ProQuest One Academic, designed to help student, libraries and faculty member by the ProQuest; Future Music Collection, a combined subscription of five magazines by the Exact Editions; and the FOLIO Aster Release, designed to clarify the features of open source library platform (LSP) by the FOLIO.

The article offers news briefs related to information resources as of October 2018. Topics include the partnership between EBSCO Information Services' GOBI Library Solutions with ByWater Solutions to improve the Koha open resource integrated library system, the addition of the SAGE Knowledge collection of ebooks and ereference content to ProQuest's Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System, and the launching of the Anywhere Access cloud-based solution from Digital Science.

An interview with Porsche Schlapper the digital Curator & Special Collections Librarian in St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri, is presented. She expresses that a day in the library involves several jobs including digital preservation, creating research guides and overseeing student employees and volunteers. She states as the world is moving towards digital the libraries are responding through programs like K-12 classrooms via web and collections online via digital libraries.

The article reviews the website "ReFigure," offers information on a digital collection of English-language periodicals titled "Left of Liberalism: Marxist-Socialist Newspapers, 1900-2015," and offers information on the digital archive of the magazine "Creative Review."

The article offers information on several products which include Foreign Office Files from Adam Matthew, SiteLeads, an extension of Publisher Dashboard from RedLink Network and the ImagineOS, software that enables 3-D printing from Piper.

The article offers news briefs related to libraries, along with information on several products, as of January 2017. Publisher Alexander Street has signed an agreement with media company Sony Pictures Classics to bring films to U.S. college and university libraries. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a report based on its web and virtual reality (VR) workshop. It also provides information on library products like a software from Deep Web Technologies.

The article previews the Open Access (OA) journal from Elsevier.

The article previews OCLC's WorldCat library network to help libraries deselect titles from Sustainable Collection Services (SCS).