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April 28, 2000

• With Don't you dare call me e-Roger, Roger Ebert steps into the e-book fray -- and what an eloquent curmudgeon he is.

• Meanwhile, Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, takes a quite different and somewhat unusual tack on this subject in Beyond the Book. He says their primary publishing goal is "to transfer knowledge from people who have it to people who need it," whatever the means.

• English-Spanish / Spanish-English Language Resources for Library and Information Science Professionals, is a fabulous resource (over 65,000 entries) by Tony Lozano of the University of Granada. The author is also an IFLA interpreter and editor of the Spanish version of IFLA Express.

  AcqWeb Site: Reference Resources :
  Dictionaries : Library and Book Related Glossaries

April 26, 2000

• E-nough already. For a modern alphabetic diversion, check out this page from The Society for the Preservation of the Other 25 Letters of the Alphabet.

• New Pages Weblog, by Casey Hill, includes links to book and music reviews, e-zines and news about publishing, bookselling and (yes) libraries. It's part of New Pages Online: Alternatives in Print & Media.

  AcqWeb Site: Library & Information Science :
  Hot Topics : News

April 24, 2000

• PRESS RELEASE: Elsevier Science and Endeavor To Join Forces

• MP3Lit.com is a terrific (and legal) source for MP3 audio files of books, poetry, etc. Many of the files are free. They are "for your personal use only," so one wonders where libraries will fit in, but at least it's entertaining, and gives a good sense of what's currently available in this format.

  AcqWeb Site: Verification : In Print : USA

April 13, 2000

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors has just been updated. It's been a while, so we have a hefty 288 new links.

  Thank you Cindy Hepfer, David Marshall and Ann Denton for the many links you sent. And a special thanks to Pamela M. Rose, who originally compiled an extensive list of medical publishers that has now been absorbed into AcqWeb.

  AcqWeb Site: Directory of Publishers and Vendors

April 10, 2000

• Booknotes: Books, Libraries, Preservation and... is a promising weblog by Craig Jensen that focuses on preservation.

  For those still wondering What Are Weblogs?, it's part of Weblogs.com - the site to visit - particularly if you want your own Weblog.

  AcqWeb Site: Library Science :
  Preservation

April 7, 2000

• PRESS RELEASE: EBSCO Publishing Teams with netLibrary to Offer eBooks

• New Niche Bookstore Targets Librarians, Colleges: a story about 21 North Main, a U.S. vendor of used, rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books.

  AcqWeb Site: Publisher Directory :
  Rare and Antiquarian Book Vendors

March 31, 2000

• Medlane Experiment - MARC to XML is a project of Stanford's Lane Medical Library, which has "mapped Lane Library’s 200,000+ bibliographic and authority records, including links to over 5,000 Internet resources, into XML." This month's Technically Speaking by David Dorman (American Libraries) does an excellent job of explaining what's behind this experiment and the implications. (Hint: they are enormous.)

  AcqWeb Site: Library Science :
  Cataloging

March 24, 2000

• Google now has a directory, including a hefty Library and Information Science section.

  AcqWeb Site: Search Guide :
  Other Forms of Classification

March 23, 2000

• Collections, Content, and the Web, a 74 page report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), is now available on the Web in full text and PDF formats.

March 17, 2000

• AcqWeb's Publisher Email Address Directory has just been updated. It has increased by another 200 entries, for a total of 4,809 links. Congratulations to David Marshall, Associate Editor of AcqWeb, and Barbara Karpel, Assistant Editor, for another job well done!

  AcqWeb Site: Publishers : Email Directory

March 13, 2000

• eBook Connections describes itself as a "connection for everything eBook related," but in fact its primary focus seems to be e-book reviews. We happened on this site thanks to a posting to the new ebooks-l list, a most promising resource, where librarians can discuss e-books from our particular perspective.

  AcqWeb Site: Library Science : Collection Dev :
  Book Reviews : Electronic Publications

March 10, 2000

• PRESS RELEASE: Joint Venture of Swets Blackwell now complete: the merger between Blackwell's Information Services and Swets Subscription Service has now been completed.

March 9, 2000

• Starting today, AcqWeb in conjunction with ACQNET will be linking to Press Releases directly related to acquisitions and collection development work in libraries. We will, of course, continue to link to other items we happen upon in our Web ramblings. For more information, see our Press Release Policy.

• PRESS RELEASE: Dan Tonkery Named President of Faxon, RoweCom's Academic & Medical Services

• PRESS RELEASE: Innovative and netLibrary Establish Alliance: eBooks to be Fully Integrated into Local Library Systems

• PRESS RELEASE: HighWire Press publishers offer more than 137,000 free online articles

• Data Powers of Ten. In case, like us, you can never remember exactly what a Gig is relative to say a Meg, at last here it is explained in library-friendly terms. Thus one Meg is a small novel, while 100 Gig is a floor of academic journals and 10 Terabytes is the printed collection of the US Library of Congress. And have you even heard of a Petabyte or a Exabyte?

March 8, 2000

• "The extremely digestible" Rain Barrel Maglog reviews single issues of magazines. It's by Mita, one of the founders of the Marginal Librarian.

  AcqWeb Site: Library Science : Collection Dev :
  Book Reviews

March 7, 2000

• TopClick is a new search site which uses Google's engine. What sets it apart is its privacy policy. Their searches "do not collect any personal information what so ever and ... do not use cookies or any other automated personal profiling technology." In addition, there are no banner ads.

  AcqWeb Site: Search Engines

March 6, 2000

• XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading is an exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose from March 1 to September 7. This is definitely a site to see, with such mind-benders as "Fluid Fiction", a "Hyperbolic Reader," a "Reading Eye Dog" and a "Walk-In Comic".

March 3, 2000

• ibooks.com Launches Online Digital Reference Book Service according to this press release. ("Reference" is their term. They rather look like computer science books to us.) What's interesting is ibooks is letting users "preview" their books.

March 2, 2000

• Three New In-Print Verification Tools have just been added:
  • Iceland: Icelandic books WEBstore from Mál og menning;
  • Italy: Libreria al Sole; and
  • Portugal: Bertrand Livreiros.

  AcqWeb Site: Verification : In Print

Until next time, wishing you all a pleasant cyber-day,