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The article reports on the participation of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library and School of Information and Library Science in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of international organizations that are constructing a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia materials on the Web. The school is the first from a university to join the alliance, and the library is the first library to contribute manuscript materials. And collections included in the archive are freely available for access and reuse.

This section offers news briefs related to computers in libraries as of January 2014. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched its new Ebook purchase model, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) that lets libraries purchase ebooks based on usage. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (NCDHC) will be the state access point to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) announced publication of the first edition of the Library Publishing Directory.