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OCLC Appoints Skip Prichard President and CEO
Skip Prichard, consultant and former president and CEO of Ingram Content Group, has been appointed president and CEO of OCLC, effective July 1, 2013. Prichard will succeed Jay Jordan, who...
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CRL Announces New Board Members, Officers
Three new members were elected to the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Board of Directors for a three-year term at the CRL Annual Council Meeting on April 19, 2013: Lars...
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White House Takes Historic Steps to Open Up Government Data
Today President Obama signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to make government data more accessible to the public. Under the terms of the Executive Order, "Making Open and Machine Readable...
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Duke Libraries Uses Mellon Grant to Support Digital Classics
Duke University Libraries is establishing a new unit, Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), that will use digital technologies to analyze some of the world's oldest documents and artifacts. Funded...
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U Alberta Appoints Gerald Beasley Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian
Gerald Beasley, university librarian at Concordia University in Montreal and former ARL RLLF fellow, has been appointed vice-provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta, effective July 1, 2013,...
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Memorial: Edward R. Johnson, 1940–2013
Edward R. Johnson, dean of the Oklahoma State University Library from 1987 to his retirement in 2003, passed away on April 25, 2013, at the age of 72. Johnson was...
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GWU Appoints Geneva Henry University Librarian and Vice Provost
Geneva Henry, executive director of digital scholarship services at Rice University and former ARL RLLF fellow, has been named the George Washington University (GWU) university librarian and vice provost for...
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Boston Public Library President Amy Ryan Welcomes Patrons Back to Central Library
Dear Friend of the Library, On April 15, the Boston Marathon and the Commonwealth’s celebration of Patriots’ Day were suddenly and sadly overtaken by tragic events. In the days that...
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UCLA Appoints Virginia Steel University Librarian
Virginia "Ginny" Steel, university librarian at University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, has been appointed university librarian at UC Los Angeles, effective July 15, 2013. For details, see the April...
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DPLA Appoints New Board Members, Announces New Committees
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has announced the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors: Robert Darnton, the Carl H. Pforzheimer university professor and university...
