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| August 23, 2018 |  UC Berkeley Law Library Implements TIND ILS By Matt Enis The University of California's Berkeley Law Library last month implemented the TIND cloud-based Integrated Library System (ILS), becoming the third U.S. academic institution to adopt the new ILS. |
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 Virginia Tech First R1 Library to Adopt Koha ILS By Matt Enis The University Libraries at Virginia Tech this summer became the first R1 research library to implement the Koha open source integrated library system (ILS), migrating more than 1.5 million holdings from its former ILS. |
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 Library People News 8/16/18 By LJ Harriette Hemmasi is the new Dean of the Library at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and more hires, promotions, retirements, and obituaries. |
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 Dogs & Tigers, Evolution & Supernovas: SciTech Reviews, Feb. 2019 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe; The History of the Future: How a Bunch of Misfits, Makers, and Mavericks Cracked the Code of Virtual Reality; No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History; and more. |
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| "[TIND] really worked with us to develop the acquisitions capabilities and the serials capabilities. In some ways, that was a little bit scary for us, but in other ways, it allowed us to actually rethink the way we do our work, and to help build a system that would work better than the [former] system." | | |
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 News Briefs for August 1, 2018 By LJ Oberlin College, OH, has renamed its main library for civil rights activist and women’s suffragist Mary Church Terrell; the Navajo Nation Library received $190,649 in funding from the Navajo Nation Council to digitize its Oral History Collection; and more news in brief. |
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 SAGE Acquires Talis Aspire RLMS | INFOdocket Filed by Gary Price SAGE has acquired Talis, a technology company, and its enterprise teaching and learning platform, Talis Aspire, which is used by over 1 million students at more than 100 universities across eight countries. |
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  Nonfiction, August 17, 2018 | Xpress Reviews By LJ Reviews Reviews of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements; Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America; God Is in the Crowd: Twenty-First-Century Judaism; and more. |
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| 1. Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Life Forms Anton, Ted University of Chicago Press 2017. ISBN 9780226353944. $25 2. The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Money, Nicholas P.
Oxford University Press
2018. ISBN 9780190270711. $24.95 3. The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
Anderson, Scott C.
National Geographic Society
2017. ISBN 9781426218460. $26 |
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