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Google Who?

28 March 2011

By Inside Higher Ed

The Google Books project has been put on ice, delaying what some academic librarians had hoped would be a watershed moment in the accessibility and searchability of digital texts. But a pair of library services scheduled to be announced today show that even as the world’s most high-profile digital search-and-retrieval effort has been set back, smaller, academically oriented projects are hoping to continue making electronic texts more discoverable.

The Chronicle: HathiTrust Makes Text of Its Digital Library Searchable Through Summon Service

28 March 2011

By The Chronicle of Higher Education

Information Today Executive Profile: Michael Gersch

17 March 2011

By Information Today

MICHAEL GERSCH, the new senior vice president of ProQuest and general manager of Serials Solutions, says joining the company was much the same as hopping onto a moving train.

“Serials Solutions has grown dramatically,” he says. “The big challenge for…

Information Today Feature - Kahn: The ProQuest Vision

9 February 2011

By Barbara Brynko, Information Today

ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn keeps the company mission and vision in plain view. “Our mission is to create indispensable research solutions that connect people and information, and our vision is to be central to research around the world.”

ISTL: University of Colorado at Boulder uses Ulrich's Serials Analysis System

1 May 2010

"Increasing demand for biotechnology and biomedical resources prompted the Engineering Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) to complete a collection assessment of the journals, books, and other resources provided by the University Libraries. This paper presents a variety of methods for evaluating library collections and describes several online collection analysis tools that can facilitate the process..."