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Thursday, February 21, 2013
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GPO’s Mission Is Validated by an Independent Study
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by Miriam A. Drake
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Every 5 years or so, Congress or an individual member of Congress decides it is time to study the Government Printing Office (GPO). The studies usually focus on the mission of GPO, cost savings, and the process of shifting printing to private industry or the federal agencies. Often Congress seems to forget that most of the printing done by GPO is contracted out to private companies and that U.S.C. Title 44 mandates that agencies procure printing through GPO. The latest study, "Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age," was performed by the National Association of Public Administration. The report "affirms GPO's mission of authenticating, preserving, and distributing Federal information." The report also recommends measures to strengthen the agency's business model and activities for the future.
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Impelsys Announces Commercial Launch of New eBook Ordering System
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Impelsys, a provider of electronic content delivery solutions, announced the commercial launch of a new title acquisitions system for libraries that enables library staff to order ebooks for their collections directly from participating publishers. Impelsys' new eBook Ordering System was developed in partnership with Douglas County Libraries (DCL), a seven-branch public library system in Douglas County, Colo. The ebook acquisition dashboard was beta tested by DCL's professional staff and system modifications were made prior to commercial launch.
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Net Minds Launches Disruptive Team Publishing Platform
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Net Minds, a new disruptive team-publishing platform co-founded by ex-Yahoo executive and New York Times best-selling author, Tim Sanders, launched Feb. 13, 2013 at the Tools of Change Conference. It aims to offer authors and the entire publishing development process a smarter alternative to both traditional and "self" publishing methods. Net Minds' crowd-powered service gives authors rights, project autonomy, and team-building tools that make the publishing process transparent and effective.
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EBSCO Publishing Introduces 23 New eBook Subject Sets
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Librarians have a convenient way to begin or expand their ebook collections with 23 new eBook Subjects Sets from EBSCO Publishing. The eBook Subject Sets are prepackaged sets of titles from leading publishers in specific, high-interest topic areas chosen to meet libraries' needs while simplifying collection development. This latest release of eBook Subject Sets addresses the demand from libraries for more offerings in religion and theology, ethnic and cultural studies, literary criticism and writing, and engineering.
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A Cyber War Is Brewing
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by Paula J. Hane
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At first, it just seemed to be a trickle of bad news. This company or another was the object of a cyberattack. Sometimes it was the hackers group with the ominous-sounding name, Anonymous, that was blamed. Then, Anonymous reportedly defaced the entire MIT website in revenge following the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz. It also hacked the Department of Justice Sentencing Commission website and threatened to launch "multiple warheads." This prompted me to do some digging. I found that hacking incidents seem to be much more pervasive—and serious—than I'd thought. The reports of cybersecurity breaches have grown more numerous in the last few years, and there have been a flood of security warnings recently.
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