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Our own Kendra Levine was recently named one of the five SLA Rising Stars for 2013. Congratulations Kendra!  Read about the award here.

The Northwestern University Transportation Library (NUTL), in partnership with Northwestern University Transportation Center (NU-TC), recently completed the digitization of 86 of the Center’s reports.Read full release and access the titles here.

From LibraryJournal.com we learn that "[t]he archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced today. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks. This is a major expansion of the Register & Read program." Read more.

The complete Annual Meeting program is now available as a complimentary mobile app for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. The app provides registered attendees access to the schedule of events, program participants, floor plans, exhibitors, and more. 

To download the TRB Annual Meeting Mobile App, search “TRB 2013” in the App Store and Google Play or visit the TRB Annual Meeting Website.

Of perhaps somewhat limited value to most of you, this very detailed report from Outsell on interlibrary loan/document delivery mega-vendors is very interesting. See the report here.