Publisher news from SLA Baltimore
I’m back from Baltimore, tired but happy with the conference. I hardly posted on EngLib; my entries appeared on the Information Technology Division blog where they were more relevant.
But there were nonetheless many interesting sessions pertaining to sci-tech information and many exhibitors in the Hall (I even got the impression that they actually outnumbered the business people this year but I have no hard data on that). Since others have already posted interesting news before, let me just link to their excellent posts, instead of trying to start from scratch:
- Paula Hane, of the Information Today blog, talked about Springer’s new e-book collection
- Terri Vogel, on the ACS blog, posted about the sci-tech Poster Session
- Doug Storm, of the same blog, posted about ACS pricing
- Of course, the SLA-PAM blog has good postings on all things of interest to the Division
. Stephen Leary did the same on the SLA Conference blog.
Dick Kaser, of Information Today, posted about the access to e-books from Wiley Interscience (including pay-per-view). At Knovel, the books will be soon searchable by chemical structure.
Finally, and maybe this will have nothing to do with science or engineering, SAGE is announcing a new e-reference collection but would not give me details until ALA in New Orleans has passed. ??!! Why then advertise it on their exhibitor mailcard?
As the first USF librarian at the Lakeland campus (now Polytechnic), I opened the USF Polytechnic Library in January 2007 and have developed its various services.
I've held positions as information broker, Internet consultant and academic librarian in Canada, the US and Europe.
A blogger since 2001, I've created and maintained several sites in, and outside, of the biblioblogosphere.
I'm active in SLA, and currently serve as on the boards of the Academic Division and the Florida-Caribbean Chapter.
