July 8, 2010

Coutts Strikes Deal with Florida To Be Primary Academic Print and Ebook Supplier USF's Gulf Oil Spill Information Center: a Q&A Google Settlement, Part I: Panel at ALA Conference Discusses Potential Scenarios Google Settlement, Part II: Samuelson Suggests a Public Alternative

Cengage Learning Consolidates Operations, Gale and Other Units To Be Combined The Internet Is A-Changing and We Need To Adapt | From the Bell Tower A Case for Mindful Browsing | Peer to Peer Review People Best Sellers in Botany/Zoology

Though a federal judge remains quiet on the Google Book Search settlement front, some new analysis of the potential impact on libraries has emerged. A session at ALA highlighted potential scenarios, while UC Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson says it's not too late for research libraries to get in the game on a Google scale. Enjoy those stories, and enjoy the Newswire.—Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• Coutts Strikes Deal with Florida To Be Primary Academic Print and Ebook Supplier
  Florida academic libraries are embarking on a mission to build a collaboratively developed core collection of print and ebooks to serve libraries across the state.
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• USF's Gulf Oil Spill Information Center: a Q&A
  The oil spill has generated an enormous amount of information. A Florida library is trying to keep track of the "gray literature" and more.
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• Google Settlement, Part I: Panel at ALA Conference Discusses Potential Scenarios
  Even if the settlement is rejected, the "genie is out of the bottle," one panelist suggested, given that publishers and authors would be unlikely to tell libraries holding full-text scans to give them back.
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• Google Settlement, Part II: Samuelson Suggests a Public Alternative
  There's still time for a library-run scanning effort, UC Berkeley Law's Pamela Samuelson says, with a tax credit for authors.
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• Cengage Learning Consolidates Operations, Gale and Other Units To Be Combined
  Gale president Pat Sommers is retiring; a new consumer-focused unit will be headed by John Barnes.
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• The Internet Is A-Changing and We Need To Adapt | From the Bell Tower
  What if we stopped forcing users come to the library's site? Steven Bell ponders a new approach to serving the academic community online.
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• A Case for Mindful Browsing | Peer to Peer Review
  Barbara Fister wonders whether her information habits are making her twitchy.
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• People
  Featured people from the library world.
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• Best Sellers in Botany/Zoology
  October 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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