MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2014
New Collaborations: DataCite Records Will Now Be Added to Data Citation Index From Thomson Reuters
|Announced this morning. From a Joint Announcement: The [DataCite/Thomson Reuters] collaboration will promote the discovery of research data sets through the Data Citation Index. This collaboration will connect the Data Citation Index to high quality research data from repositories worldwide that work with DataCite. As part of the Web of Science inclusion within the Data […]
Jobs: Penn St University Libraries Hires Copyright Office; University of Kentucky Library Looking for Director of Digital Scholarship
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Jobs, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries
|1. Attorney Brandy Karl Appointed Copyright Officer by Penn State’s Libraries Karl served as a fellow at Stanford Law School’s center for Internet and Society and Fair Use Project. She has also been an attorney extern at the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. Karl has her master of laws from […]
From Penn Current: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created an American tradition of radical poetry about 160 years ago, and this year, Penn’s Kelly Writers House (KWH) and the New York Public Library (NYPL) have created a radical way to teach it. Starting this fall, New Yorkers enrolled in Al Filreis’ online Modern and Contemporary […]
Access Online: University of Kansas Libraries Completes Digitization of Important Collection of Bird Illustrations
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News
|From the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Libraries have completed digitization of one of the world’s greatest collections of bird illustrations. The 19th century books of John Gould feature images of birds from around the world and have long appealed to everyone from Charles Darwin to amateur bird watchers. Gould’s work […]
New from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. From the NGA: The National Gallery of Art recently released a new children’s app for iPad, NGAkids Art Zone, now available for free download on iTunes. Echoing the style of the popular NGAkids online interactives, this dynamic app contains eight new hands-on activities inspired by […]
A new version (3.2) of OverDrive’s app for Android, iOS, and Windows 8 should be released mid-September according to an email update sent by OverDrive to library partners. OverDrive points out that the new version will no longer require authorization from Adobe (required for copyright, DRM) something library partners and users have wanted for a […]
We always find it interesting to read, view, and listen to how library technology news, in this case the launch of the WorldShare platform from OCLC by the Texas A&M International (TAMIU) University Library, is reported by the mainstream press. The video report (embedded below) runs about two minutes and was broadcast Monday by KGNS-TV […]
New Issue Brief From Ithaka S+R Looks at Reimagining the Book Review Process
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, New Issue, News, PLOS, Publishing
|Here’s a new issue brief written by Oona Schmid, director of publishing at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and released online today by Ithaka S + R. It’s titled, Faster and Cheaper: Can a Digital-Centric Workflow Transform the Book Review? From a Summary: Academic authors in the humanities and social sciences often wait three or […]
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Trethewey Places Her Archive at Emory University
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Reports
|From Emory University in Atlanta: Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory University faculty member Natasha Trethewey has placed her archive at Emory, according to an announcement by the university’s Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The archive is currently open to researchers. “Natasha Trethewey is among the nation’s foremost contemporary voices in poetry,” says […]
Media coverage of a reorganization process that began earlier this summer. From the Vancouver Sun: The downtown branch, which is known as the Central Library, is being rearranged to make it easier for people to find books, as well as to create space for a new Inspiration Lab. The 3,000-square-foot Inspiration Lab will be on […]