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Guest Post – What’s in a (SLA) name?
This is a guest post written by two librarians at the U of Calgary about the proposed name change for the Special Libraries Association. In November the membership will be voting whether to change the name of their organization to ASKPro (Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals). I have no stake in the matter, but Justine…
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Politician suggests Public Library should drop p-books in favour of e-books to save money
From TeleRead comes the story of a politician with an interesting idea, but who hasn’t explored the economics of ebook publishing. E-books for libraries pushed by economy-minded Los Angeles councilman.
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Cory Doctorow kicks off a unique publishing experiment–and a monthly PW column
Cory Doctorow’s trying to run an experiment to prove once and for all that giving a book away while simultaneously offering it for sale will realize more money for the author than simply selling the book in traditional formats. There’s quite a bit more to it than that, but that’s the gist I picked up…
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New entries to the M-Libraries page on the libsuccess wiki
Just added two new entries to the Publishers offering databases for mobile devices section on the M-Libraries page of the Libsuccess wiki. I was surprised to learn that Questia still seems to be going strong after all these years. And the American Institute of Physics has also released an iPhone app called iResearch, which "is…
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Books of enduring scholarly value
I found a link to this video on the TeleRead blog. It's a 4:00 overview of how Cambridge University Press and Cambridge University Library are partnering to both bring back OOS press titles and to digitize library titles in a print-on-demand operation. Nothing we haven't seen before, but a nice look into how some are…