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Thursday, July 28, 2011
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| NewsBreaks |
| The End of an Era for Google Labs—Innovation Now Via Acquisition and Pontification |
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by Stephen E. Arnold
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| The media, Wall Street, and assorted bloggers were adrenalized by Larry Page's announcement that Google Labs was going dark. That's right. Google Labs. The quasar of innovation at the Google: Shut down, lights off, out of business, and repurposed ... What's gone? Obviously the Google Labs site where I could "play around with prototypes of some of Google's wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them." I do not think there will be much of a change in Google's innovation pace. In fact, it may accelerate in social media. |
| Weekly News Digests |
| LoislawConnect to Take Legal Research to the Next Level |
| Wolters Kluwer Law & Business announced that it is releasing an enhanced version of its Loislaw legal research platform. The new platform, called LoislawConnect, will deliver a faster, more streamlined way to conduct research within the same flat fee structure that Loislaw users have come to depend upon. LoislawConnect was previewed at the 2011 AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia July 23-26. |
| New SciVerse App: iSpeech Audio Reader |
| Elsevier announced the availability of an audio reader application from iSpeech, provider of cloud-based speech technology and mobile apps, on SciVerse Applications beta. The iSpeech Audio Reader is the latest in a growing list of applications enhancing the use of SciVerse ScienceDirect content to improve researchers' workflows. |
| Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books |
| The Wellcome Library announced a partnership with ProQuest, U.K. to digitize more than 15,000 volumes from the library's rare book collection as part of the Wellcome Digital Library pilot project. The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books (EEB) database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
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| Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA |
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by Paula J. Hane
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| Looking over the program of presentations and panels and at the vendors exhibiting at the recent American Library Association Annual (ALA) conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. Of course, along with that come all the issues and considerations involved: copyright/DRM, rising costs of digital collections, format issues, and the rapidly evolving publishing market. For librarians, it's all about providing enhanced services through the emerging technologies. They had a lot to look at and think about in New Orleans. |
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| Conference Connection |
CONFERENCE CALENDAR March 7–11, The 9th Health Informatics in Africa Conference (HELINA 2014) March 10, ALPSP Training Course: Developing Open Access and Hybrid Journals March 12–13, Conference of the Bells March 14–18, The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015) March 20, ALPSP Training Course: Financial Management in Journals Publishing March 21–23, The 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST’15) March 24, ALPSP Training Course: Data Protection: Compliance Issues for Publishers March 25–28, ACRL 2015 Conference March 26–28, The Third International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web (EBW2015) March 28–29, The 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Science (ICITS 2015) March 29–30, The Second Annual Library Publishing Forum March 29–April 2, The 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015) March 30–31, The Third Annual HTRC (HathiTrust Research Center) UnCamp March 30–April 1, The UKSG 38th Annual Conference and Exhibition |
| ITI Blogs |
If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader: ITI Books Blog – booksblog.infotoday.com – news, observations, and commentary from the authors, editors, and publishers of Information Today, Inc.'s many book offerings. ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide. SpeechTech Blog – speechtechblog.com – updates on speech technology and its applications in daily life. Covers everything from ASR to VUI, with lots of links, threads, and even a few pictures thrown in for good measure. |
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