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'Everything for Everybody, Everywhere': A Conversation with James O'Donnell
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by Dave Shumaker
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James O'Donnell is university librarian at Arizona State University (ASU), where he also serves as a professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. ... I interviewed O'Donnell in his office in the Hayden Library on the ASU campus in Tempe, Ariz. This is an edited and condensed version of our conversation.
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SSRN Branches Out Into Chemistry With ChemRN
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SSRN, owned by Elsevier, launched the Chemistry Research Network (ChemRN). It complements the recently released Biology Research Network (BioRN), the organization's first expansion outside the social sciences.
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Exact Editions Digitizes Magazine for the Creative Industries
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Exact Editions is offering the complete digital archive of Creative Review, dating back to the first issue in 1980. The magazine has published more than 400 issues, and it will provide its future issues to the digital archive as well.
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Pew Research Center Puts Out More Information on the State of the News Media
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Pew Research Center published the last installment of its exploration of the state of the news media in the U.S. with fact sheets on key audience and economic indicators for the public broadcasting, digital, and Hispanic and African-American news sectors.
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Paragon Software Group Debuts Update for Data Management System
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Data backup, disaster recovery, and data migration solutions company Paragon Software Group (PSG) introduced Hard Disk Manager 16 Preview, an all-in-one solution for protecting, maintaining, and managing PC systems and data.
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Library of Congress Hosts Webinars on World War I
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The Library of Congress (LC) is running a five-part series of free webinars on World War I to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. joining the fight. They will highlight some of the LC's WWI-related resources, such as documents, photographs, maps, and personal stories from the Veterans History Project.
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Getting Automated With DISYS
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC (DISYS) is a staffing and IT consulting services company for global businesses in industries such as banking, financial services, and insurance; energy; and healthcare and life sciences. Its services include staff augmentation, application development, business intelligence, cloud enablement, and infrastructure support. With offices in North and South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, DISYS was named one of the fastest-growing private companies by Inc. in 2010. It is now one of the largest staffing firms in the U.S.
NewsBreaks spoke with CEO and founder Mahfuz Ahmed, who shares how he has strategically facilitated the company's growth, and with Deanna Murray, DISYS Industry Insights, about the ways DISYS serves its clients.
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