Library Stuff

Bits Blog – “The company sent out e-mails Tuesday announcing a press conference on that date at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. And Amazon.com confirmed that its founder and chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, will host the event.”

Telegraph – “Audio recordings made by Jewish survivors of the Second World War go on the British Library's website from today to mark National Holocaust Memorial Day.” (via)

NLM Technical Bulletin – “The PubMed Summary display format has changed to include information about the availability of free articles from publishers. In addition to the existing link on citations showing what is free in PubMed Central® (PMC), a new link indicates if the article is freely available at the journal's Web site. Some citations have a link indicating the article is free from both PMC and the journal. The links all go to the AbstractPlus display where icon links to PMC and journal sites display.” (via)

The Associated Press – “A settlement in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit calls for GateHouse Media Inc. to put up technical barriers so that certain content can't be automatically captured by Boston.com, under an agreement announced Monday.”

The Associated Press – “Publisher Mills & Boon is betting that nothing goes with champagne and diamonds like the bone-crunching, mud-churning wallop of a rugby match. The romance imprint has teamed up with rugby's British governing body for a series of novels in which gorgeous women fall for athletic alpha males adept at making passes.”

GenNext – “Twitter has been covered backward and forward. It has fanatical users, most of whom have blogs where they've expressed their opinions about what Twitter is and why it's special. Twice.”

OCLC – “HathiTrust, a group of some of the largest research libraries in the United States collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, and OCLC will work together to increase visibility of and access to items in the HathiTrust’s shared digital repository.”

AFP – “President Barack Obama's aides, who ran the most tech-savvy US election campaign in history, were forced into a red-faced admission Monday — the White House email system has crashed. “Our email system is not working so well,” press spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters at the start of his daily briefing.”

CrownHeights.CH – “Best known as an expert on Judaism’s complex ritual purity laws, a U.S. karate champion and Israel’s first – and for many years, only – American-born prison chaplain, Rabbi Fishel Jacobs doesn’t exactly strike the image of a children’s book author. But for the man who has written everything from in-depth treatments of Jewish law to a chronicle of transformation among Israeli prisoners, his latest book – an illustrated tale of a child’s conflicting impulses – is an accomplishment 30 years in the making.”

The Associated Press – “I am so wonderfully befuddled,” the best-selling author said Monday after winning the 88th annual Newbery for “The Graveyard Book,” a spooky, but (he says) family friendly story about a boy raised by a vampire, a werewolf and a witch.”