Re: Newsletter of the Association of American University Presses

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

Chuck and others may be interested in the National Observatory 
Project being run by JISC. It is concerned with e-books and their 
usage and future models that will be appropriate for libraries 
and indeed users. The site is www.jiscebooksproject.org/ -

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:36 PM
Subject: Newsletter of the Association of American University Presses

> The Exchange Online
> The Newsletter of the Association of American University Presses
> 03/24/08
> http://aaupblog.aaupnet.org/index.php?s=publishing
>
> CONTENTS
>
> MIT Premieres Digital Media & Learning Series
> O'Reilly TOC Conference Focuses on Practical Digital Resources
> Publishing's Carbon Footprint
> AAUP Presses at MLA 2008
> Lobbying for the Humanities: Humanities Advocacy Day 2008
> Mellon Foundation Supports Four More University Press Collaborations
> Caravan Project Begins Second Year with $25,000 NACS Grant
>
> I was particularly impressed with the report on the MIT project
> http://aaupblog.aaupnet.org/?p=61
>
> "Supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
> Foundation, MIT Press has recently published six titles exploring
> the effects and interrelationships of emerging digital
> technologies on youth and learning. The books, available as free
> chapter-by-chapter downloads at MIT's web site and also as cloth
> and paper editions, offer a substantial new body of scholarship
> in the field of digital media and learning, and will be followed
> by a new quarterly journal in winter 2009."
>
> The O'Reilly "Tools of Change (TOC) Conference" was also an
> interesting report, and if the 2008 report is right, represents a
> new development in e-books: "One thing that became clear is that
> the publishing industry is moving on from visionary statements to
> the decidedly less sexy and more productive work of integrating
> new technologies and models into the cycle of scholarly
> communications."
>
> Let's hope its right. Come on, get to it--make e-books practical
> and workable, please!
>
> Overall the newsletter is well worth a read if you haven't
> checked it out.
>
> Chuck Hamaker
> Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
> Atkins Library
> University of North Carolina Charlotte
> Charlotte, NC 28223