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Monday, November 12, 2012
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Concrete Steps Toward a Digital Public Library of America
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by Paula J. Hane
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The dream of a national digital public library is inching closer to reality. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) initiative was launched in December 2010 with generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Since then it has been working to transition from a planning initiative to a fully independent 501(c)(3) organization and has crafted a draft job outline for DPLA Executive Director. The DPLA plans to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all via a large-scale digital library.
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NLM Launches Web Content Collecting Initiative
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), launched a web content collecting initiative. NLM is selecting web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature, as well as resources that illustrate a diversity of philosophical and cultural perspectives not found in the technical literature. NLM has already been archiving portions of its own web domain considered to be of enduring value. With this new effort, the NLM is now collecting web content that others have created.
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Labtiva and NPG Offer ReadCube Access for the Public
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An affordable way to read scientific articles launched on Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, as NPG and Labtiva opened a pilot of the ReadCube Access program to the public for inexpensive single-click purchases and 2-day rentals. The program is designed to help researchers, doctors, journalists, and the wider public who do not already hold subscriptions gain access to articles in high-impact scientific journals, including Nature and the Nature research journals.
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LibLime Announces Production Release of LibLime Koha 4.14 With Solr
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LibLime, a division of PTFS, announced the public release of LibLime Koha 4.14 with the Lucene Solr search engine. Solr is the popular open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. LibLime Koha 4.14 represents the innovation, ideas, and talents of many professional librarians with whom LibLime enjoys working and with whom the company looks forward to a continued professional partnership in years to come.
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Smarter Searching With Summon Suggestions
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by Barbara Quint
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Traditional—or should I say, classic—reference librarianship involved some basic practices in dealing with clients seeking information. When a client came in asking where to look for a topic, you directed them to the sources most focused on the subject area. When a bunch of clients kept asking for certain subjects, you put together a package and kept it handy for distribution. When clients began scratching their heads and furrowing their brows while using a search tool, you leaned over their shoulders and gave them some tips. Now Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company producing a leading discovery service called Summon, has introduced a suite of tools called Summon Suggestions that integrate the same kinds of service for digital content. Components of the new suite include upgraded Database Recommender and Best Bets along with Related Search Suggestions.
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