Thanks to all SEFLIN 2011 Bridges to Technology Conference attendees who entered our drawing for THE TECH SET® titles and Teaching Information Literacy Online. The winners are pictured below.

Left to right: Lisa Jackson, Sally Smollar, Bonnie Rothschild, Rachel Owens, Georgina Del Valle, Dani Lichtenberg, Diane Kachmar, Veronica Gonzalez, and Merlene Nembhard

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Vivek Kundra, chief information officer for the government, said cloud computing could save the country billions of dollars. Photo: Jonathan Fickies/Bloomberg News via The New York Times.

The federal government plans to close 800 computer centers over the next four years, replacing them with cloud computing services, The New York Times reported today. According to the article, Kundra said that using cloud computing, which allows users to send and store information over the Internet, could save the government about $5 billion per year.

It looks like the U.S. is following a trend that so many libraries have already embraced. Cloud computing improves efficiency and saves time and money for libraries and their patrons. Getting Started with Cloud Computing: A LITA Guide, edited by Edward M. Corrado and Heather Lea Moulaison, takes librarians through the process of implementing cloud computing in their organizations with detailed instructions and concrete examples from real-world libraries.

Click here to learn more about Getting Started with Cloud Computing: A LITA Guide.

Click here to read the full New York Times article.

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Join us in congratulating Gregory Hunter on his appointment as editor of the American Archivist! His three-year term begins January 1, 2011.

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Our newest YouTube video features The Medical Library Association’s Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. Be sure to take a look and tell us what you think!

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Congratulations to Laura Millar, recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, “Archives: Principles and Practices.” Click here to find out more about this award-winning title.

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We’re back from ACRL in Philadelphia…in case you didn’t have a chance to stop by, check out our pictures below!

The award-winning TECH SET

Our booth

THE TECH SET is the winner of the ALA 2011 Best Book in Library Literature prize

The Neal-Schuman booth in action

Charles Harmon, Neal-Schuman's vice president and director of publishing, and Marie Radford, co-editor of "Reference Renaissance"

Trudi Jacobson, co-editor of "Teaching Information Literacy Online" and several other Neal-Schuman titles, and Charles Harmon

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