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“Pandemic Amplifies Trouble with Restrictive Licensing and E-Textbooks” is posted on the SPARC website : “Students who can’t afford to buy textbooks have long relied on reserve copies at their campus libraries. As the global pandemic shuttered colleges...

Don’t Forget! Apply for ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference Scholarships by October 23
The deadline to apply for a scholarship to attend the ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference is coming up this Friday, October 23.
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In this post, Elizabeth Stamp of Architectural Digest highlights a futuristic looking new bookstore with “mirrored ceilings—while gleaming black tile floors reflect the bookcases for a serious M.C. Escher effect.”
images are courtesy of Shao Feng
Ms. Stamp goes on to note that “for a book lover, stepping into a bookstore is always exciting, but a new bookstore in China makes the experience absolutely spellbinding. Dujiangyan Zhongshuge, located in Chengdu, was designed by Shanghai-based architecture...

Open Access Archiving: JISC Announces New Sherpa Romeo Service Enhancement: Browse by Country
Citing a JISC Announcement, infoDOCKET reports that “as part of Open Access week, we would like to take the opportunity to announce a Sherpa Romeo [“a summary of publishers’ open access archiving conditions for individual journals”] service enhancement...