OverDrive plans its own world digital library in Garfield, Ohio (USA)

eBook distributor OverDrive has announced that it has begun construction of its world headquarters and "Blue Sky Campus" in Garfield Heights, Ohio, in the Greater Cleveland Area. As a result of domestic and international growth in the eBook industry, OverDrive is developing a 95,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre tech campus to accommodate more than 300 employees

Library Design Showcase 2012 (USA)

The 2012 Library Design Showcase highlights the best in new and newly renovated library buildings, divided into sections that each focus on one architectural aspect. American Libraries' annual review of the best in new and renovated library facilities

Famous family trees: Charlie Chaplin (findmypast.co.uk)

The first in a new series of blogs which explores the family trees of the famous. Experienced family historian, Roy Stockdill, takes us on a journey through time as he investigates the family history of the famous, both living and dead. Roy’s first blog focuses on silent film star Charlie Chaplin

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Machado de Assis em Linha : Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Machadianos

İnternet Uygulamaları ve Yönetimi Dergisi

Arqueología de la Arquitectura

Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos

Estudios Geográficos

Coactivity : Philosophy, Communication

International Journal of Computer Technology and Electronics Engineering

Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology

Research Opinions in Animal & Veterinary Sciences

Modern Language Association members receive complimentary access to CHOICE Reviews

The Modern Language Association and Choice recently announced a pilot project to provide MLA members with complimentary access to Choice reviews. During the pilot phase, all MLA members will receive free and full access to Choice Reviews Online through a link from the members-only portion of the MLA website

Books on demand technology comes to Brooklyn Public Library

A group of 3rd-graders from Brooklyn's P.S. 399 watched Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses being printed on demand in bound paperback format March 7 at Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library's Central branch. The children were invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to introduce the library's new Espresso Book Machine, which can print more than 8 million titles in any language with the push of a button

Grammatica

Grammatica helps you analyze grammar, displays stress marks and turns any Russian text into learning material

New publication: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

The mission of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research

Crossroads - March 2012

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - March 2012 issue is now available. RSS feed

Harvard Library to deposit additional volumes in HathiTrust

The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard's first deposit of approximately 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011

Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics launch book series

Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) will partner to publish a new book series: SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of mathematics to social and industrial problems

FreePint Newsletter 346

FreePint Newsletter 346 - 8 March 2012 now available

Book Grocer: 7-13 March 2012

Book Grocer: 7-13 March, 2012 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog. #books #London

EMBO Molecular Medicine to publish under open access model

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and EMBO has announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine will, as of March 2012, join the Wiley Open Access publishing program. Articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use

SUNCAT: Two new contributing libraries (UK)

The serials records of two institutions have been added to SUNCAT. This takes the number of SUNCAT Contributing Libraries up to 85, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals. Added are Robert Gordon University and The Courtauld Institute of Art

EBSCO Publishing releases first eBook subscription offering - eBook Academic Subscription Collection

EBSCO Publishing has released its first subscription eBook collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection™ supplies full-text eBooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included in eBook Academic Subscription Collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with unlimited access to the content. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. As with all eBooks available from EBSCO, eBook Academic Subscription Collection will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost® content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases

March 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is up at LibraryThing

The March 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 3103 copies of 91 books available this month

Introducing Google Play

With Google Play you can:

* Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
* Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
* Browse the world's largest selection of eBooks
* Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles

Starting today, Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore will become part of Google Play

LITA publishes first open access issue of Information Technology and Libraries

The Library Information Technology Association has published the first open access issue of Information Technology and Libraries under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

The Cairo Genizah Collection of the Bodleian libraries (UK)

The collection of Cairo Genizah fragments held at the Bodleian Libraries is one of major collections of its kind. Acquired over the years since 1890 it consists of about 4,000 fragments. Skilful selection ensured that the Bodleian Genizah holdings became one of the most important collections worldwide, featuring Bible, Early Rabbinic literature (Midrash, Mishnah and Talmud), numerous liturgical fragments (Piyyutim and Selichot), many legal documents and letters, both personal and commercial