LibConf.com from Information Today

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 [...]

  After yesterday’s talk by Ken DiFiore, I was intrigued to receive this press release from Portico. Here is an excerpt from it: Portico, a digital preservation service for the scholarly community, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve 61 titles from its online journal [...]

  Patrick Newell, CSU Fresno, says LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) started at Stanford 10 years ago. It’s international, with many supporters. It’s open source, peer-to-peer, decentralized. It began with a question about how the internet changed the role of libraries from building, owning collections to leasing materials. Libraries are social and cultural. [...]