Newsletter 2673 Issue 267320091119135736

Editor's Note

Ongoing questions about the Google settlement, library consolidation, and the future of an open source ILS are featured in this week's Newswire. We're off next week for Thanksgiving, returning on December 3. In the meantime, enjoy the columns and news and let us know what you think by leaving a comment.—Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• OLE Project Gains Support of Kuali Foundation
  Open source ILS alternative aimed at research libraries.
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• Five Colleges (MA) Consortium Plans Tech Consolidation
  Some express concern over reduced staffing.
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• ProQuest and Scribd Partner on Dissertations and Theses Marketplace
  Joint effort will expose scholarly graduate work to broader audience online.
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• Samuelson Says She Has Same Pricing, Privacy Concerns About Google Settlement
  Would smaller database change the market for libraries?
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• NYPL President LeClerc To Retire in 2011
  Has led the library through enormous changes over 16 years; will another academic take the helm?
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• From the Bell Tower—Finding Inspiration in Higher Education
  Keeping a library building running in tip-top shape is no easy task, says Steven Bell, and accountability is a necessary ingredient.
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• Peer to Peer Review—The Battle of the Books—Again
  Sometimes when libraries announce changes, the fight is on. Barbara Fister examines the wreckage from a recent skirmish.
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• Dialog lends support to laid-off librarians, Auto-Graphics partners with ChiliFresh and Index Data, New platform for IGI Global, and more
  LJ Academic Newswire's marketplace notes and announcements.
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• People
  The latest on people from the library world.
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• Best Sellers in Psychology
  March 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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