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May 27, 2010

Sustainability Feature: Let "Green" Creep NYPL Joins HathiTrust, as Repository Expands and Brands Rare Oceanography Collections at UCSD Now Digitized Mellon Grant Funds Preservation Model for Born-Digital Materials LIS School at LSU Threatened with Closure

From the Bell Tower—Look Who's NOT Coming to College Peer to Peer Review—Getting Serious About Digital Humanities People Best Sellers in Geography

Could Barack Obama have the first digital presidential library? MSNBC notes that, according to Jonathan Alter's The Promise, Obama "mused to a friend that maybe [his presidential library] should be an 'online library,' not bricks-and-mortar." As Alter says, this isn't likely to happen, but it would be fascinating to see academic libraries shape digital proposals come the end of his term in office. Enjoy the Newswire.—Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• Sustainability Feature: Let "Green" Creep
  You've heard the buzz about building green libraries, but what about green library operations? Green libraries cost less to operate, and, if you plan it right, you might find out that your library has more to spend on materials. (Also see an interview with feature author Louise Schaper on sustainable management.)
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• NYPL Joins HathiTrust, as Repository Expands and Brands
  Library adding 300,000 public domain works; watermarks now part of HathiTrust.
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• Rare Oceanography Collections at UCSD Now Digitized
  About 100,000 volumes from Scripps Library, mostly in public domain, now available.
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• Mellon Grant Funds Preservation Model for Born-Digital Materials
  UVA, Stanford, Yale, and University of Hull to collaborate on framework for sustaining digital files.
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• LIS School at LSU Threatened with Closure
  Dean vows to fight decision; only library school in Louisiana.
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• From the Bell Tower—Look Who's NOT Coming to College
  Some qualified students opt out of going to college, says Steven Bell, but the pressure is on to better support those who opt in.
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• Peer to Peer Review—Getting Serious About Digital Humanities
  Dan Cohen thinks it’s time to reconsider the scholarly social contract, and Barbara Fister agrees.
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• People
  Featured people from the library world.
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• Best Sellers in Geography
  September 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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