Briefs #2: IAA writes to Department of Justice requesting review of John Wiley and Sons acquisition of Blackwell Publishing; LC Records Go Free, as Catalog Meets Blog in New Plymouth State Project

+ IAA writes to Department of Justice requesting review of John Wiley and Sons acquisition of Blackwell Publishing
3 pages; PDF. News release/summary also available.

+ LC Records Go Free, as Catalog Meets Blog in New Plymouth State Project (via Library Journal)
Take blogging software (Word Press) and use it to distribute cataloging records. More in the LJ story and on Casey Bisson’s blog. Bisson is an info architect at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and was recently awarded (congrats Casey) a $50,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration.

+ Complete List: First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Presented at CNI Fall Task Force Meeting (via ARL)

+ ProQuest’s Cuban Exile Collection Brings Holdings of Acclaimed Research Repository to Libraries