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Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC
This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...
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E-Book Landscape Surveyed by Clifford Lynch
CNI executive director Clifford Lynch provides an overall assessment of the e-book situation in the latest American Libraries digital supplement, “Digital Content: What's Next?” In his article, “Ebooks in 2013:...
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Iowa Appoints John Culshaw University Librarian
John P. Culshaw, senior associate dean of libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder and 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow, has been named university librarian for the University of...
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Clifford Lynch Profiled as Digital Preservation Pioneer
The Library of Congress blog The Signal: Digital Preservation featured CNI executive director Clifford Lynch in its Digital Preservation Pioneer series on May 29. The profile's author, Mike Ashenfelder, writes,...
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Peter Suber Named Director of Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication
The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have appointed SPARC senior researcher Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC),...
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Texas A&M, UT Open Joint Library Facility
Today the Texas A&M University (TAMU) and University of Texas (UT) systems are opening a Joint Library Facility at TAMU’s Riverside Campus. The $6.3 million, 18,000-square-foot facility will house more...
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CARL Asks Prime Minister to Consult Community in Hiring Librarian & Archivist of Canada
On May 21, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to consult with the library and archival community during the...
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Public Libraries Survey Search & Compare Tools Updated with FY 2011 Data
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has updated its Public Libraries in the United States Survey (PLS) search and compare tools with FY 2011 unimputed data. The survey...
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Harvard Appoints Sarah Thomas VP for Library
Sarah Thomas, Bodley's librarian and director of the Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford, has been appointed vice president for the Harvard Library, effective August 2013. In this role, Thomas...
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U Michigan Appoints James Hilton Dean of Libraries
James L. Hilton, vice president and CIO at University of Virginia, has been appointed dean of libraries and university librarian at the University of Michigan (U-M), effective September 1, 2013. He has...
