Monthly Archives: March 2010

As the iPad launches, so too do the tech-maven reviews. Here’s one from the Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD’s Walter Mossberg, who makes no bones about the fact that he really likes the gadget.
My verdict is that, while it has compromises and drawbacks, the iPad can indeed replace a laptop for most data communication, [...] Continue reading →

portal: Libraries and the Academy will make copy-edited e-prints of articles in forthcoming issues available.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:

The Johns Hopkins University Press and portal: Libraries and the Academy have announced an agreement that will provide increased access to research about the role of academic libraries and librarianship.
Beginning with the April 2010 issue, [...] Continue reading →

The Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco is recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: V99992):

Work with faculty and librarians to identify print materials for transfer to digital media.
Essential Job Responsibilities Catalogue, digitize, and assign metadata. Work with other producers of digital media to create institutional repository.

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The Internet Archive has announced that two million free digital texts are now available from the repository.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making [...] Continue reading →

The Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska, Kearney is recruiting a Web Services Librarian. Salary: $52,000-$57,000.
Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 5040875):

This is a twelve-month, tenure track appointment reporting to the Coordinator of Collection Services. The Web Services Librarian oversees the development and maintenance of the library website, including web-based [...] Continue reading →

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities has announced recent awards from its Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program.
The awards are:

City of Philadelphia, Department of Records—Philadelphia, PA: Historic Overlays on Smart Phones
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library—Rolling Hills Estates, CA: The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text
George Mason University—Fairfax, VA: Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
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Received the following email from Joanna and thought I should pass it on:
It’s a newsworthy day Apparently Fictionwise has removed books from the agency publishers as they ramp up for tomorrow’s big change. Someone on Mobile Read reported that the titles are off the website and have been removed from people’s wish lists [...] Continue reading →

Part of an email I just received from them:
Dear Reader Store Customer,
The publishing industry is turning a page and so are we.
Beginning April 1st some major publishers will be instituting a change in the pricing of eBooks, which puts decisions on eBook pricing firmly in their hands. As a result, prices of bestsellers and new [...] Continue reading →

La célèbre encyclopédie Britannica est désormais disponible sur l’iPhone (Appstore). Rien de moins que 25000 articles, 800 images et cartes (via Teleread). Continue reading →

Publishers Lunch (subscription required) quotes Overdrive CEO Steve Potash “are adapting as best we can” in “getting the information and making sure it’s good to go” from those publishers switching models, while warning that “there will be holes in [some publishers'] catalogs starting tomorrow.”
Among the issues with the Agency Five, Potash says, is that “some [...] Continue reading →