June 4, 2010

21 Directors Weigh In on the Future of Academic Libraries In FAQ, Wikipedia Reaches Out to Librarians BEA 2010: Academics Are Readers, Too OCLC Cuts 7% of HQ Staff, After Selling NetLibrary and Facing Tighter Library Market Hacking Tradition | Peer to Peer Review

What Happened to Our Chronicle Presence? | From the Bell Tower Commentary from Radical Patron: Learning from LC's Twitter Deal Salem Press lauds academic library bloggers; CSU launching e-textbook pilot with Vitalsource; Rittenhouse available via EBSCO; and more Best Sellers in Literature

Pardon our dust: as part of our transition to new ownership, LJAN has moved, with all new offices, servers, and content management software—and we're working out all the final kinks. We hope to be back to our regularly scheduled Thursday editions this week. Until then, enjoy this Newswire, and please note my new email address: jhadro@mediasourceinc.com.—Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• 21 Directors Weigh In on the Future of Academic Libraries
  In support of a new textbook on academic libraries, administrators offer concise statements ranging from cliche to provocative.
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• In FAQ, Wikipedia Reaches Out to Librarians
  Parent company Wikimedia's executive director Sue Gardner on May 25 initiated an FAQ for Librarians entry on its Wikimedia Outreach site, calling for individual librarians to become volunteer editors.
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• BEA 2010: Academics Are Readers, Too
  LJ Book Review editor Margaret Heilbrun's take on university press titles at the recent BookExpo America.
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• OCLC Cuts 7% of HQ Staff, After Selling NetLibrary and Facing Tighter Library Market
  In a sign of both the tough times facing the library market and OCLC's own business changes, the nonprofit behemoth laid off 64 people, including 55 at its Dublin, OH, headquarters.
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• Hacking Tradition | Peer to Peer Review
  Can a scholarly book be crowdsourced in a week? It just was, Barbara Fister reports, and societies had best tune in.
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• What Happened to Our Chronicle Presence? | From the Bell Tower
  Steven Bell wonders why academic librarians aren't writing for the higher ed paper of record.
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• Commentary from Radical Patron: Learning from LC's Twitter Deal
  Radical Patron blogger Jean Costello senses the LC let the public down on the Twitter acquisition. She explores what was missing.
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• Salem Press lauds academic library bloggers; CSU launching e-textbook pilot with Vitalsource; Rittenhouse available via EBSCO; and more.
  LJ Academic Newswire's Marketplace Notes.
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• Best Sellers in Literature
  September 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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