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Presentation: Academic Libraries and Open Access: Policies, Services and Resources for Increasing Access to Scholarship

by Brian Rosenblum
This presentation will focus on emerging roles for academic libraries in supporting access to scholarship through open access policies and practices. The University of Kansas recently became the first public university in the United States to adopt an “open access” policy that makes its faculty’s scholarly journal articles available for free online. [...]

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Posted on 5th September 2010
New Prototype: "National Library of Medicine Announces “History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium”

From the Announcement:
The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of its prototype History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium.
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html),
[The prototype is ] a search-and-discovery tool for archival resources in the health sciences that are described by finding aids and held by various institutions throughout [...]

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Posted on 4th September 2010
Public Libraries: Iowa: "More and More Going Online With the Library"

From an Article:
Almost 2,000 people enter the Iowa City Public Library each day to check out books, use the free Internet access and attend meetings, but even more people are beginning to access library services without ever leaving their homes, a library official said.
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Kara Logsden, ICPL’s adult services coordinator, said that updating services to meet [...]

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Posted on 4th September 2010
Have A Look: A New Web Site for Job Seekers from the Phoenix Public Library

The new web site is accessible here.
You can learn more about it in this article from The Arizona Republic.
Toni Garvey, who heads the Phoenix Library Department, has seen many of the jobless in libraries. She says that if you ask library visitors why they’re there, it often has something to do with looking for work, [...]

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Posted on 4th September 2010
Papers & Slides from ALIA (Australia Library and Information Association) Access 2010 Conference

The conference took place on September 2, 2010 and September 3, 2010 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Several of the presentations are already online. Here are five we’ve already downloaded and will be looking at soon.
1) Trove: More than a Treasure? How Finding Information Just Became Easier (9 Pages; PDF)
by Rose Holley
National Library of Australia, [...]

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Posted on 4th September 2010
Engineering Seminars Topics & Abstract: International Conference

Digital Preservation Strategies * Web Retrieval Tools and Strategies * Information Retrieval in Indian Languages * User Interface and Patron Interactions Tools * E-learning * Open Source Software Tools for Digital Library Development …

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Posted on 4th September 2010
[转载]《开放获取期刊目录》第一版_dewey_新浪博客

(4) Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, version 1 http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm. Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): …

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Posted on 4th September 2010
3par-Speichersysteme für die Langzeitarchivierung mit iCAS

iTernity unterstützt die Archivierung mit 3par in der Storage-Cloud sowie in virtualisierten Umgebungen Freiburg, 3. September 2010. Die iTernity GmbH,

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Posted on 4th September 2010