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TechCrunch Confirms Elsevier Buys Mendeley

Today techcrunch confirmed that Elsevier will purchase Mendeley for between $69-100M. For more on this see the techcrunch article – http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/

Mendeley put out a piece on their blog talking about the coming changes – http://blog.mendeley.com/start-up-life/team-mendeley-is-joining-elsevier/

DPLA Announces New Executive Director

I was so happy to hear the news that the Digital Public Library of America had announced that Dan Cohen of CHNM fame was going to be their new Founding Executive Director.

Press Release – http://dp.la/2013/03/05/dan-cohen-named-founding-executive-director-of-the-digital-public-library-of-america/

All the best to Dan as he starts this new endeavor.

JCDL 2013 Announces Keynote Speakers

Well folks, our teams at IU and UIUC have been hard at work getting things ready for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 to be held in neighboring Indianapolis. We are getting our sponsors on board – Ebsco Publishing, Digital Library Federation, Pervasive Technology Institute, SLAIS at University of British Columbia, just to name a few and we have now announced our keynote speakers – http://jcdl2013.org/keynotespeakers.

We are so lucky this year to have Jill Cousins from the Europeana Foundation, Cliff Lynch from the Coalition for Networked Information and David De Roure from the e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford. So far things are shaping up wonderfully for the program and our hard working program co-chairs: Tim Cole, Rob Sanderson, and Frank Shipman are hard at work finalizing our program with all of our program committee reviewers.

Deadlines Extended for JCDL 2013

The following submission deadlines for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) have been extended:

Full paper submissions are due 4 February 2013.
Short paper, panel, poster, demonstration submissions are due 8 February 2013.
Workshop and tutorial demonstration submissions are due 15 February 2013.
For more information, please refer to the complete CFP at http://jcdl2013.org/call-for-papers.
Doctoral consortium submissions will be due 15 April 2013, and details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/doctoral-consortium.

JCDL 2013 is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year’s conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26, 2013. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide.

This year’s event will be hosted by Indiana University and the University of Illinois in downtown Indianapolis, IN.

Kuali Days 2012

This week I am posting and tweeting from Kauli Days 2012 in Austin, TX. We have over 800 attendees this year from 40 different u.s. states and 8 countries internationally. See below for a picture of the opening plenary featuring #kualiole friend pat burns, cio and university librarian at colorado state university.