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Reports that the King County Library System in Washington has made electronic audiobooks available in its eAudio collection. Way that books are played on MP3 players; Titles bought from the company Audible.com; How library patrons want to download electronic books themselves.

The article offers brief information on several streaming video services for libraries including Ambrose Digital from Ambrose Video Publishing, Digital Campus from Swank Motion Pictures, and SAGE Video from Sage Publications Ltd.

The article reports on the American Library Association (ALA) conference which took place June 25-30, 2015, in San Francisco, California. It discusses conference presentations on topics including the collection and analysis of library patron data, trends in the needs of academic library users, and library technologies. Other topics include book awards and a planned partnership of online research firm EBSCO and library automation firm Ex Libris.

The article offers information on Assistant Professor Maria Montalvo's U.S. History Seminar Class "Slavery and the Archive" at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Topics discussed include lesson learned by the students from the Montalvo's Class, historic newspaper collections that help students trace ideas over time, and comments from Librarian for African American Studies and U.S. History Erica Bruchko.

The article focuses on researcher Ryan Cordell and his study of the dissemination of information in the U.S. during the 19th century. Topics include how information travels throughout communities and how Boston, Massachusetts became a major publishing center. Information is also provided on the digitzation of materials for open access and the use of crowdfunding for digital projects.

This section offers news briefs on issues of interest to reference staff in public and academic libraries as of March 2018. Topics discussed include the decline in undergraduate enrollment in the U.S. according to a research by Martin Kurzweil and Daniel Rossman of the nonprofit research organization Ithaka S+R, grant-funded online resources on studying social life in the Appalachian region, and the need for Canadians to have better tools to help manage and protect their online reputations.

The article discusses the importance for library leaders to measure the performance of their institution. It mentions several library institutions that offer outcomes-based evaluation (OBE) training and support for their members to effectively measure outcomes and address the rising need of its users. It also mentions the strategy of other libraries in measuring outcomes, which helped decision-makers further improve the service they can offer.

Presents resources for digital imaging projects. Variables involved depending on the project; Questions needing to be answered for a given project; Resources from the United States Library of Congress (LC) and the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Understanding underlying technical issues; Use of Kodak materials; List of published and Internet resources.

The article reviews the web site Sex & Sexuality Module II: Self-Expression, Community, and Identity, located at sexandsexuality.amdigital.co.uk, from Adam Matthew Digital.

Reports that the Hearst Corp. has donated photographs and clippings from the defunct newspaper the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" to the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). Statement of Sanford Paris, president of the Board of Library Commissioners, that the donation will improve the library's resources; Description of the collection, which covers the history of Los Angeles from 1900 to 1989; Outlook for the collection to be available at the Central Library building when it opens in 1993.

Describes how the Saint Louis Municipal Library Cooperative employed an integrated computer package for the Missouri library. Courses and workshops attended by library staff and officers; Barcoding the collection; Effort to make computer available by appointment for use by individuals of the community; Vendor support for the Book Trak program; Funding for the computers.

Announces the Canadian Library Association's (CLA) call for the establishment of a national library network. CLA effort to encourage the National Library to take the initiative and negotiate contracts with other major research libraries to form a network and make their collections available nationwide.

The article discusses the architectural design of the Tidewater Community College/Virginia Beach Joint-Use Library in Virginia, designed by RRMM Architects and Carrier Johnson + CULTURE (CJ+C).

The article discusses the use of data-driven decisions in the collection development of libraries and the data tools available to make such decisions as of May 2014. Topics include the need for human review of circulation data to determine whether a title should be remove or promoted in a new way, the data collection tool collectionHQ from Baker & Taylor, and the use of supplemental information-gathering techniques to reflect the needs of a library's community.

The article reviews various subscription databases with extensive historic black newspaper collections, including African-American Historical Serials Collection from EBSCO, Chronicling America from National Digital Newspaper Program, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers from Gale.

A news brief is presented which discusses the increased demand and availability of electronic books in United States libraries, despite frustrations involving the pricing and availability policies of the publishers. Statistics are provided which indicate that nine out of ten public libraries offer electronic books, that average circulation quadrupled from 2010 to 2011, and that the most active borrowers of electronic books are adults between the ages of 35 and 44.

The article presents an introduction to a collection of reviews of mystery stories which will be available to libraries in 2012 and 2013, including "Death In the 12th House" by Mitchell Scott Lewis, "The Sign of the Weeping Virgin" by Alana White, and "The Cold Cold Ground" by Adrian McKinty.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to a letter on audiobooks in libraries published in an August 2012 issue.

The article evaluates the website McGraw-Hill eBook Library at http://www.mhebooklibrary.com by the publisher McGraw-Hill.

The article reports that text aggregator firm EBSCO Publishing (EP) has partnered with the online education resource Bridgeman Education (BE) which will allow images from BE's collection to be searched with in EP's Discovery Service (DS).

The author investigates the 2011 suit brought by the Authors Guild (AG) organization against the HathiTrust, a collaborative digital archive project between several research universities including University of Michigan, Cornell University, and Indiana University. The author notes that AG's president Scott Turow formerly supported libraries. She points out that HathiTrust has not violated libraries' fair rights under copyright law by making its collection available for full-text searching.

The article looks at the partnership between the Internet search company Google Inc. and the British Library to digitize books for research purposes.