Mellon Funds Phase III of Cultures of Knowledge Project (Early Modern Letters Online) With $744,000 Grant; LITA guide to technology disaster response and recovery planning; Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Acquires Large Collection of Material From Sir Arthur C. Clarke Trust; Duke University Libraries Acquires Large and Important Collection of Women’s History Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials; SAGE wins International Academic and Professional Publisher Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2015; Simba launches new quarterly report series on growing Ed Tech Startup industry; ACI Helps Researchers Find Trusted Blog Content; and SAGE Business Researcher Offers Materials for In-Depth Study
Mellon Funds Phase III of Cultures of Knowledge Project (Early Modern Letters Online) With $744,000 Grant
InfoDOCKET reports that “this grant [by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation] of $744,000 will take Early Modern Letters Online [EMLO] through another two years of development, from April 2015 to March 2017…
The ultimate aspiration of the project is now to create a platform for radically multilateral scholarly collaboration — a ‘scholarly social machine’ — which can furnish an entire community of scholars and repositories with the means of piecing back together the millions of scholarly letters scattered across and beyond a continent during the early modern period…”
LITA guide to technology disaster response and recovery planning
ALANews reports that acknowledging “a disaster’s effect on internet and social media sites, electronic resources, digital collections, and staff and public infrastructure of PCs, tablets, laptops and other peripherals requires special consideration” LITA has released a book “edited by Mary Mallery, “Technology Disaster Response and Recovery Planning: A LITA Guide,” published by ALA TechSource, features contributions from librarians who offer hard-won advice gained from personal experience. Leading readers through a step-by-step process of creating a library technology disaster response and recovery plan..”
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Acquires Large Collection of Material From Sir Arthur C. Clarke Trust
According to InfoDOCKET “the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has acquired a large collection from the Sir Arthur C. Clarke Trust. The collection consists of 87 cubic feet of material representing the life’s work of one of the 20th-century’s foremost science fiction writers and futurists.
The collection will be made available to researchers in the museum’s archives after being processed and cataloged…”
Duke University Libraries Acquires Large and Important Collection of Women’s History Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials
InfoDOCKET also notes that the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University has acquired one of the largest and most significant private collections on women’s history, documenting the work and intellectual contributions of women from the Renaissance to the modern era.
Carefully assembled over 45 years by noted bibliophile, activist and collector Lisa Unger Baskin, the collection includes more than 8,600 rare books and thousands of manuscripts, journals, ephemera and artifacts, including author Virginia Woolf’s writing desk.
Wolters Kluwer offers ICD-10 services from Health Language to speed preparations, readiness for October 2015 deadline
KnowledgeSpeak reports that “healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that its ICD-10 Readiness Package is available to payers and providers to meet the fast approaching October 2015 deadline. Offered through its Health Language® family of products, the Readiness Package is designed to mitigate financial risk, remediate clinical and IT systems, and ensure systems are performing optimally post go-live across the customer’s enterprise…”
SAGE wins International Academic and Professional Publisher Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2015
Also according to KnowledgeSpeak “SAGE won the International Academic and Professional Publisher Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, in association with The Publishers Associations. The awards were presented on the first day of the London Book Fair (LBF), at the London Olympia. The LBF is considered Europe’s leading international spring book fair and welcomes over 25,000 professional visitors from more than 100 countries…”
Simba launches new quarterly report series on growing Ed Tech Startup industry
In addition, KnowledgeSpeak notes that “demand for technology-based educational resources aimed at improving student achievement at all grade levels is spurring unprecedented activity in the development of new products. The result has been the creation of a lively startup industry that is changing the overall educational publishing industry and challenging traditional ways of providing education in schools and colleges, according to Simba Information’s new Ed Tech Startup Quarterly Dashboard…”
ACI Helps Researchers Find Trusted Blog Content
Information Today notes that “it can be difficult to separate trustworthy blogs from those that might, intentionally or otherwise, spread misinformation. That’s where the ACI Scholarly Blog Index, a curated collection of scholarly blogs for the academic market, comes in…
The index will find “blogs, research their reliability, put them through an editorial process, sign contracts to get their full texts, bring them into the ACI system, and provide them to clients. To work on the index, the company brought in a team of experts in the academic sector that includes Pat Sabosik, the ACI Scholarly Blog Index’s general manager.
SAGE Business Researcher Offers Materials for In-Depth Study
Information Today also reports that SAGE Publications launched SAGE Business Researcher, a resource composed of biweekly in-depth reports, data, short articles, expert views, and other materials for investigating topics in business and management. The first in a suite of resources, SAGE Business Researcher is suitable for students in all stages of undergraduate and graduate schooling. Topics include Big Data use, digital marketing, and crowdfunding…”