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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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OCLC Finds the Missing Link in Bibliographic Data
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by Terry Ballard
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As an eager online-catalog watcher, I have long felt that library automation was due for a total paradigm shift. Sure, the discovery platforms have made catalog searching more intuitive, but they are simply a refinement and overlay of what came before. It turns out that the shift is here, and the catalysts for this change include OCLC and Tim Berners-Lee.
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SAGE Acquires Lean Library
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SAGE acquired the Lean Library technology startup to help academic libraries promote themselves to patrons and showcase their services where patrons already are.
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Wiley and Clarivate Analytics Redesign the Peer Review Process
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Wiley and Clarivate Analytics teamed up to develop a scalable and open peer review workflow using Clarivate Analytics' Publons peer review platform and its ScholarOne manuscript submission system.
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Open Road Integrated Media Starts Women's Book Club
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Open Road Integrated Media's Early Bird Books partnered with the Fab Over Fifty women's online community to create a free monthly book club called Spread the Words.
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Europe Votes in Favor of New Copyright Law
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According to CNBC's Ryan Browne, "European parliamentarians have passed a controversial overhaul of copyright law that could force tech giants to install filters that prevent copyright-protected content from being uploaded."
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Gale's Digital Scholar Lab Is Now Live
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Gale launched its Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based research environment that helps students, librarians, and researchers at any level apply natural language processing tools to raw text data from Gale Primary Sources archives.
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A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 2
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by Justin Hoenke
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Justin Hoenke, the executive director of a small public library, has been talking to all types of library staffers for A Day in the Life, his column in Information Today. Here's a look at his interviews from March to July/August 2018.
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A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 1
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by Justin Hoenke
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Here's a look at Hoenke's columns from September 2017 to January/February 2018 (originally published Jan. 9, 2018).
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