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Three US publishers, Apple charged with antitrust violations over e-books pricing
12 Apr 12:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 15 other US state attorneys general have charged three of the nation’s largest book publishers and Apple Inc. with conspiring to fix the sales prices of e-books. Defendants named in the antitrust action are: Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Simon & Schuster Inc., Macmillan Holdings LLC and Apple Inc. However, Attorney General Eric Holder announced at a recent press conference that Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have agreed to a proposed settlement.
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EBSCO Publishing unveils collection management tool for libraries
11 Apr 12:
EBSCO Publishing, US, has launched the EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM). ECM is projected to make it easier for library staff to search for e-books and audio books and add them to their collections.
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Free access to information in jeopardy, says State of America's Library Report
9 Apr 12:
Publishers limiting library e-book lending, budget cuts and book challenges are just a few library trends of the past year that are placing free access to information in jeopardy. These trends as well as other are detailed in the 2012 State of America's Libraries Report recently released by the American Library Association (ALA).
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Google to end eBooks partnership with independent booksellers
6 Apr 12:
Representatives of Internet search services provider Google, Inc. have reportedly contacted the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books to announce that the company would end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide.
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Missouri Evergreen Consortium
5 Apr 12:
MOBIUS, a nonprofit library organization, signed a contract with the Missouri State Library to host and manage an Evergreen Integrated Library System for the public libraries of Missouri. The Missouri State Library will fund migration costs and MOBIUS staffing for the Missouri Evergreen Consortium for the next five years.
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Virtual International Authority File to be part of OCLC service
5 Apr 12:
OCLC announced that VIAF (Virtual International Authority File), a project that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service, has transitioned to become an OCLC service. OCLC will continue to make VIAF openly accessible and will also work to incorporate VIAF into various OCLC services.
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Softlink extends OverDrive eBook distribution to Corporate and Academic libraries
4 Apr 12:
Corporate and academic libraries in Australia are now able to obtain the OverDrive eBook and audiobook service from Softlink as an integral part of their knowledge and resource management systems. Softlink began distributing the OverDrive platform to Australian schools last year.
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NISO publishes revised Recommended Practice for RFID in US libraries
4 Apr 12:
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the availability of RFID in US Libraries (NISO RP-6-2012), a revision of the 2008 Recommended Practice that provides a set of practices and procedures to ensure interoperability among U.S. RFID implementations in libraries.
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Hong Kong Buddhist College chooses LibLime Academic Koha
3 Apr 12:
The Hong Kong Buddhist College has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Academic Koha, as their Integrated Library System (ILS).
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Academic Libraries in Scotland Partner to Share Millennium ILS
22 Mar 12:
University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) will join University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) to share the Millennium ILS, bringing together collections that total over 700,000 physical items. They are migrating from library system provided by Talis.
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National Library of Russia opts for Ex Libris Aleph ILS
22 Mar 12:
The National Library of Russia (NLR), in St. Petersburg, has decided to adopt the Aleph integrated library system for the management of its print collections. Aleph will replace numerous locally developed systems that are currently used by the National Library.
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Large California Consortium Joins Movement Toward Library Ebook Ownership
20 Mar 12:
The largest library network in California is going to adopt the pioneering ebook business model of Colorado’s Douglas County Libraries, which allows libraries to truly own, not rent, their ebooks.
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Library system in Pangasinan chooses KOHA
16 Mar 12:
The Pangasinan Provincial Library in the Philippines implemented the KOHA-Integrated Library System Online Public Access Catalogue to fully automate its library services in the coming months.
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