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Thoughts from the Summon Advisory Board Meeting
Late last year I was invited to become an inaugural member of the Summon Advisory Board, and yesterday here in Boston we held our first meeting. What a rush! It's days like that that remind me just how much I love my job. The day was filled with stimulating conversation, and I got to meet…
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Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides
Another press release at Library Technology Guides: Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides. I’m not entirely sure what this integration actually means, but as a customer of both LibGuides and Serials Solutions I have a query in, and will let you know what more I find out.
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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OffCamp Schedule Posted
The full conference schedule for the 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference has been posted.
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The strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads
Oooh, Dan D’Agostino, Collection Development Librarian at the University of Toronto, has an excellent guest post at TeleRead where he starts to nail the current problem with academic ebooks; namely that they’re not downloadable. This is the first in a two? part post that examines the strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads. …