You may have seen this article making the rounds online. It’s from The Atlantic, by Dr. Dan Cohen, Dean of the Library at Northeastern University, and it’s worth a read. Cohen does a good job teasing apart the tensions between the fact of declining usage of print books, and the real attachment that many people […]
Hi all, this week, you may have heard the visiting colleagues from Library and Archives Canada refer to a new report from the research division at OCLC. The report is entitled “Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record” [link to pdf]. The analysis in the report is based on WorldCat holdings data, […]
As you may have heard, the UAL collection now contains the Indigenous peoples atlas of Canada giant floor map. This map has even been featured on the news, and it is indeed giant. Its home is RCRF. It does circulate, but must be requested using the RCRF Request Form. For more information, please consult […]
There is a new filter available on Ebook Central that allows you to find only titles that are free of digital rights management. This feature may be useful for professors seeking materials they can use for class readings. To try it out: Open advanced search Filter by book status Select “Unlimited copy, […]
Hi everyone, you may have been following the story around the University of California’s termination of its Elsevier subscriptions. Today, UC news is circulating again, this time regarding a new agreement with Cambridge UP that directly supports the transition to open access. The way the new agreement works is that […]