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Finding, Using, and Sharing Scholarly Content

October 10th, 2007 by jbauder

The speakers for this session were Beth LaPensee of JSTOR and Alice Preston from Ithaka.
JSTOR is currently in the process of doing a major site redesign, and Beth LaPensee gave an overview of some of the changes that might (emphasis on the word might; this is still a work in progress) be included in the [...]

More about Libraries as Digital Publishers

June 27th, 2007 by jbauder

The Kirtas/BookSurge/Amazon book digitization program is getting press!
Book Standard
Chronicle of Higher Education

Libraries as Digital Publishers: A New Model for Scholarly Access to Information

June 27th, 2007 by jbauder

This panel featured six speakers who are involved in a new project to digitize books and make them available both online and print-on-demand via Amazon. Two of the speakers, Lotfi Belkhir and Robin Asbury, work for the companies that are behind the project—Kirtas Technologies and BookSurge, respectively—and the other four speakers are with institutions that [...]

The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?

June 26th, 2007 by jbauder

Hello LITAblog readers! I’m Julia Bauder, a student in the MLIS program at Wayne State and one of the LITA conference bloggers. I’ll be blogging three sessions this weekend. First up is The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?, featuring Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University as the moderator, Joseph Janes of the University of [...]