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Biblio Tech Review - some changes.
6 May 13:
Biblio Tech Review is now no longer produced under the auspices of Ringgold Inc - it is now produced by Pevanda Limited a UK company run by founder of the Review Peter Evans. Biblio Tech Review was started up in 1997 as an experiment in news dissemination using the newish medium called the World Wide Web.
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Baker & Taylor launches app for reading library ebooks
6 May 13:
Baker & Taylor has launched an app for iOS and Android that lets users read ebooks from libraries on their tablets and smartphones. The move is intended to give patrons of libraries that use Baker & Taylor’s Axis 360 platform to supply ebooks more choice in how they read those ebooks. The app, axisReader, lets library users borrow and read ebooks from their local libraries.
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Pearson survey shows high levels of personal tablet and smartphone use in elementary, middle and high schools
1 May 13:
According to a new study released by Pearson nine in ten of today’s elementary, middle and high school students believe that mobile devices will change the way students learn in the future (92 percent) and make learning more fun (90 percent). The majority (69 percent) of elementary, middle and high school students would like to use mobile devices more in the classroom.
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Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology goes live with Ex Libris’ Alma
29 Apr 13:
Australia's Swinburne University of Technology, an Alma collaborative partner, is in production with the Ex Libris Alma library management solution. In addition, Swinburne University is the first live Alma site whose cloud-based services are delivered by the company's new data center in Singapore.
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III and OverDrive Announce Plans for Deep API Integration
25 Apr 13:
Innovative Interfaces, Inc. ("III") and OverDrive, have agreed on plans for deep API integration of OverDrive services into III products, including Sierra and Encore Discovery Services Platform. Building on the success of the first round of OverDrive APIs, the coming API updates will include the ability to check out and place a hold on eBooks from a library's online catalog.
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HTRC unveils data mining and analytics tools for HathiTrust Digital Library
25 Apr 13:
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collection of digital texts from over 70 research libraries around the world. The new tools seek to provide an entry point to large-scale analysis of HathiTrust's contents.
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eBooks on Demand network receives 2013 ALA Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects award
25 Apr 13:
The eBooks on Demand (EOD) project of the EOD Network is one of three projects selected to receive the 2013 American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects.
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Publishers' online communities to double by 2015
17 Apr 13:
Publishing Technology and Bowker Market Research have released the findings of the first US and UK research into the growth of academic and trade publishing online communities. The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next two years, according to the research.
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Ingram announces market entry into India for VitalSource Bookshelf e-textbook platform
15 Apr 13:
Ingram Content Group and B.i. Publications Pvt. Ltd. have agreed to form a joint venture, Ingram-B.i. Pvt. Ltd., to launch Ingram's VitalSource Bookshelf e-textbook platform to institutions in India.
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3M Cloud Library enters eBook Pilot with Simon and Schuster and New York libraries
15 Apr 13:
The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will bring Simon & Schuster eBooks to readers in a new pilot program at the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library. The program will make all Simon & Schuster eBooks available to the library for purchase, including new titles.
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Ringgold launches ProtoView
12 Apr 13:
Ringgold Inc. has announced ProtoView, a new service for publishers for creating and disseminating comprehensive metadata for web-scale discovery and Demand-Driven Acquisition.
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NISO publishes annual review issue of ‘Information Standards Quarterly’
10 Apr 13:
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published the Spring 2013 issue of its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) magazine in open access on the NISO website. The magazine provides a summary of the 2012 standards development work conducted by NISO and by the international ISO Information and Documentation committee (TC46). nis
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