Information Today acquires "Online" Magazine & Bowker Assets.Information Today, Inc. (ITI (Information Technology Industry Council, Washington, DC, www.itic.org) Formerly the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), founded in 1916. ITI is a membership organization composed of approximately 30 large high-tech companies. ; Medford Medford. 1 City (1990 pop. 57,407), Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential and industrial suburb of Boston, on the Mystic River; settled 1630, inc. as a city 1892. Wax, paper, clothing, and furniture are among its products. , NJ) has acquired Online magazine from Online, Inc. (Wilton, CT). No terms of the deal were given. Although the change is effective immediately, Online's January/February issue will be first published by ITI. Described as the "flagship of Online's fleet of periodicals and conferences," Online was launched in 1977 and is published six times a year. It has a controlled circulation of 7000. The title publishes articles, reviews, news and commentary for information professionals, librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. , and related executives who gather, manage and use electronic information in corporate, academic and government settings. ITI president Tom Hogan Tom George Hogan (born September 23, 1956, Merredin, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 16 ODIs from 1983 to 1984. • • , Sr. said the acquired title "has been our worthy competitor for over two decades, and we have a profound respect for its quality and comprehensiveness. It truly is he journal of record for our field." ITI produces magazines and conferences for the library and information industry. Its magazine titles include flagship Information Today, a monthly launched in 1984, Computers in Libraries, Searcher, Multimedia Schools, a magazine launched by Online, Inc. in 1994, Link-Up and Intranet Professional. Online, Inc. said the sale is part of its ongoing strategy to reach beyond its original audience to a broader b2b market. In the recent past, the company has launched a number of seminars and workshops covering such topics as DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. technology and applications, intra-nets, Web-based virtual communities and buying and selling e-content. Online, Inc. will continue to publish EMedia and EContent magazines. Also, as part of a cooperative effort with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (Bethesda, MD) to purchase the R.R. Bowker R.R. Bowker, LLC provides information support for the publishing industry in the United States. Bowker is the official U.S. ISBN Agency, the publisher of Books In Print assets from Reed Elsevier (London) last month (see related story), ITI acquired the publishing rights to a line of Bowker reference products serving the library, publishing, book- selling and AV markets. The acquired references include Literary Market Place and its international edition, American Book Trade Directory, American Library Directory, AV Marketplace, American Men & Women of Science, Library Resource Guide and The Bowker Annual Library & Book Trade Almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. . |
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