• Information Today website
• Amazon Kindle
• Kobo
• Chegg (purchase or rental)
• Nook: (coming soon)

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From Information Today Inc:

This October, Information Today, Inc.’s most popular authors will be at Internet Librarian 2014. For attendees, it’s the place to meet the industry’s top authors and purchase signed copies of their books at a special 40% discount.

The following authors will be signing at the Information Today, Inc., on Monday, October 27 from 5:00 to 6:00 P.M. during the Grand Opening Reception

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Last time I compiled a list of authors that I knew were doing some great things with mashups, but this time I’d like to open things up to all of you to submit your proposals. If you’re interested in participating and sharing your library’s story or your own personal favorite mashup please take the time to fill out the proposal form. To get ideas for what your proposal should look like please review the table of contents from the first edition.

Decisions will be made by May 1 and the form will close on the 20th of March. Chapters should be 3,000-5,000 words each and should be written in an informal and approachable manner. All chosen authors will receive chapter author credit and a free copy of the book. The deadline for chapter submission (if chosen) is August 15, 2013.

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I wanted to let you know we are discounting all Information Today, Inc. books an additional 33% off the already discounted web order price from November 28 through January 7, 2013, when you order online. The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period and with more than 150 titles available on our website, I’m sure you will find something that interests you.

• ITI and CyberAge Books
• American Society for Indexing (ASI) Books
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) Books
• Plexus Publishing

When you check out at our online store, use the promo code ITIFW12. Don’t forget that we are also offering free standard shipping on all web orders shipped within the continental United States. Visit our bookstore to see what’s available.

Lastly, visit the ITI Books Blog featuring frequent posts from our authors and editors.

This includes Library Mashups, so if you were waiting for a good deal, now’s the time!

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OCLC Research has developed an experimental service that provides a list of items similar to an item of interest. The prototype service uses various characteristics of a sample work, such as classification numbers, subject headings, and genre terms, to retrieve related resources from WorldCat. This approach is called content-based recommendation.

The recommendations are accessible through a user interface and through an application programming interface (API). The user interface, Kindred Works, provides basic search functionality; users can search by author, title, ISBN, or OCLC number. The recommendations may include books, ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video materials.

The recommendations can be customized to the collection of an individual library by adding the library’s OCLC holding symbol to the query. This feature is limited to libraries that participate in WorldCat.org. The API is intended to be used by software developers to integrate recommendations into another service or application, for example, a library catalog or other discovery interface.

It’s pretty darn neat looking. I also didn’t read through the entire terms of service – does anyone know if you have to be an OCLC member to take advantage of the API?

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Our API directory now includes 49 library APIs. The newest is the Home Theater Backdrops API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the LibraryThing API. We list 3 LibraryThing mashups.

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