Showing posts with label Libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libraries. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

US Libraries: Constrained, Vilified, Holding On

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REMEMBER: I've moved to Substack but here is a list of my library series posts - see at the bottom. Much of my work depends on the libra...
Monday, May 17, 2021

MediaWeek (Vo 14, No 3) Clarivate to buy Proquest in $5.3B deal, Remember Reading, RB Media Acquires, Controversial Book Deals

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Clarivate (ex Thomson Reuters company) announced their intention to acquire Proquest.  From the press release : Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT ),...
Monday, November 30, 2020

MediaWeek Report (Vol 13, No 16): Big Mergers - Simon & Schuster, S&P Global, Copyrights & Libraries, Pearson

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Bertelsmann buying Simon & Schuster. No doubt you've read about this acquisition and here are some of the articles.  Many are taking...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

MediaWeek (Vol 13, No 13): Bloomsbury, The Strand Bookstore, Ebooks & Libraries, Education & Academic Publishing

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Roundup of publishing news from the past several months. Harry Potter publisher says Covid has weaved magic over book sales ( Guardian )   “...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

OCLC's Vision for the Next Generation of Metadata

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From the OCLC report summary:  Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library ...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

EBSCO's Tim Collins on eBooks, Libraries and Search "has never been more important".

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Interesting interview from Scholarly Kitchen with Tim Collins .  Here's a clip: Many libraries are starting to see that, while they ma...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

UK Public Libraries to get Free Access to Academic Journal Content

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Announced today ( press release ) by the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS-UK) is a pilot program that will make thousands of academic and s...
Monday, October 14, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 41): Frankfurt Sessions, Libraries and Offsite Storage, State of Publishing from New Republic + More

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Publisher's Weekly round-up of some of the early educational sessions at Frankfurt last week including mine on responsive web design. (...
Monday, September 02, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 35): The Cassette Tape, Birmingham Library, Google Glass, Economist Newspaper +More

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Missed last week. Apologies. Who knew the lowly cassette tape is celebrating 50 years of age.  Not much chance of making 60 I shouldn'...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The Death of the Copyright Agency

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The combined impacts of technology, legislation and judicial decisions on copyright licensing are beginning to show how rights licensing age...