Too bad Gale didn’t announce this on the first day of CIL rather than the last. Better late than never, however. Cengage Gale and Portico, (part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA) announced that Gale will be preserving three additional digital historical collections with Portico: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author Online and Literature [...]
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Free for National Library Week
Two CIL exhibitors are offering “freebies” for National Library Week: Gale and ProQuest. Gale’s focus this year is advocacy. After you download a widget, you can search Career Transitions, Global Issues in Context, GREENR, and Grzimek’s Animal Life. ProQuest will provide free access to six databases.
LexisNexis Breakfast
At this morning’s LexisNexis Customer Appreciation breakfast, I was very impressed by one of the award winners. Daniel Cornwall , Alaska State Library, won the GODORT “Documents to the People” Award. He gets a plaque and $3,000. The money is going to fund a Civics Library that the Alaska State Library plans to put on flash drives [...]
What's True of The Loop Is True of the Industry
Ah, Chicago. Hog butcher, etc., etc. When I arrived yesterday afternoon I took a quick walk through The Loop, Chicago’s historic downtown district. I even stepped into the old Marshall Fields department store, which reminded me a lot of the old John Wanamaker department store in my hometown of Philadelphia. Both from the same era. [...]
