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Weekly News Digest
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February 18, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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People News From Early 2025
The Library of Congress and the charity Every Child a Reader appointed Mac Barnett the 2025–2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Barnett, who has written more than 60 children’s books, is the ninth author to have this role. “Barnett will celebrate the children’s picture book through his platform, Behold, The Picture Book! Let’s Celebrate Stories We Can Feel, Hear, and See. Barnett will explore the deeply impactful ways picture books blend words and illustrations to create a uniquely powerful reading experience, one that is often the foundation for a lifetime of reading. Ultimately, Barnett will assert the picture book is a quintessential American art form and deserves its rightful place among the best American literature,” the press release states.The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE named Victoria Reich and David Rosenthal, co-founders of the LOCKSS Program, as the 2025 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Award. “LOCKSS is a stunning achievement—both technically and on a social and organizational basis—that fundamentally changed thinking about digital preservation, particularly with regard to the scholarly record. It’s stunning both in its design, which is extraordinarily sophisticated, and its execution, which has included a quarter century of advocacy and outreach. The visionary security and resilience thinking built into LOCKSS is a model I can only wish more systems have internalized,” says Clifford Lynch, CNI’s executive director. Silverchair hired David Nygren as its new chief business development officer. He will lead the company’s business development and marketing teams in addressing “the increasing demand for platform services from publishers looking for an independent and innovative technology partner,” according to the press release. Nygren comes from Wolters Kluwer, “where he was responsible for partner acquisition and management, go-to-market strategy, and content product development for Ovid.” He was also previously head of sales and marketing at the American Psychological Association and VP of research insights at Wiley. eLife made Timothy Behrens, professor of computational neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University College London, its new editor-in-chief. He “is a long-time supporter and contributor to eLife’s work,” the press release shares. “Behrens is responsible for the editorial direction and vision of the [eLife] journal, providing leadership to eLife’s academic editors. He will be the public face and champion of the journal, promoting it within the research community and driving forward its new approach to peer-review and publishing excellence in science.” CCC promoted Jason Edmondson from VP of finance to VP, treasurer, and CFO. He will be “responsible for financial affairs, enterprise risk and compliance, sales operations, contract administration, and facilities,” according to the press release. Additionally, CCC hired Neal Dunkinson as senior director of solution sales. This is a new role that was “created to support deeper collaboration with corporate customers.” Dunkinson was previously VP of solutions and professional services at Elsevier’s SciBite.
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