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Monday, February 27, 2012
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ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services
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by Paula J. Hane
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Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations. I had a chance to visit with him during ALA Midwinter in Dallas and get an update on the corporate strategy he is implementing and his thoughts on the industry.
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Bridgeman Education Metadata Comes to EBSCO Discovery Service
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EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Bridgeman Education developed a new partnership allowing images from Bridgeman Education's extensive collection to be searched within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement will add metadata from the Bridgeman Education collection into the Base Index of EDS.
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Ex Libris Integrates LOCKSS Software With SFX OpenURL Link Resolver
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Ex Libris Group announced the integration of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program software with the SFX OpenURL link resolver. The LOCKSS Program is an international community collaboration that archives copies of scholarly journals so that library users can continue to access licensed copies when the journals are not available directly from the publisher.
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Cengage Learning to Provide Discounted Etextbooks to California State University
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Cengage Learning announced an agreement with California State University (CSU) to provide discounted etextbooks to students as part of the Affordable Learning Solutions campaign. This 3-year contract will allow more than 400,000 students on 23 campuses to access Cengage Learning etextbooks at a substantial cost savings.
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OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries
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by Barbara Quint
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After just more than 1 year of development and testing, OCLC's Innovation Lab, an OCLC Research division, has moved the Website for Small Libraries (WSSL) project from the experimental to the beta test stage. If the service succeeds, the next and final step would be an upgrade to the production stage. Defining small libraries as those with collections of 20,000 or less and only single-digit numbers of employees, the OCLC project is open to nonmembers as well as members. The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries.
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