MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2018
University of Illinois Professor Uses Big Data to Research History of Gender in Fiction, Project Mined Data From 104,000 Books Found in HathiTrust Digital Library
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From the U. of Illinois News Service: The number of women writing works of fiction dropped dramatically from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, and the prominence of female characters in works of fiction declined as well. At the same time, however, the gender differences between male and […]
Erik T. Mitchell Appointed University Librarian at UC San Diego
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From UC San Diego: Erik T. Mitchell, Ph.D. has been appointed university librarian at the University of California San Diego effective April 16, 2018. Mitchell currently serves as associate university librarian of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services and associate chief information officer at UC Berkeley. [Clip] During his five years at UC Berkeley, Mitchell worked […]
From the Courthouse News Service: TVEyes does not have a fair-use defense to claims that it violated the Fox News Network’s copyright by allowing users to access an unlimited amount of television clips, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday. Though a federal judge already issued a permanent injunction against TVEyes, Tuesday’s ruling from the Manhattan-based appeals court says […]
From the California State Library (via Facebook) A ceiling leak at the California State Library Building in Sacramento resulted in water damage to an estimated 250 volumes from the General Rare Book Collection, several of which were from the 1800s. The leak was discovered this morning [Tuesday, February 27, 2018] and staff immediately began the […]
New From LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries): The recommended readings and tutorials in this post broadly focus on what skills are needed for providing DH services in libraries and how library staff can acquire these skills. In the case of the former, we examined resources that resonated as representative or evocative of what skills library […]
From TheJournal.ie: Library records 20 people living in north Dublin were altered to add in information of a “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit nature”, the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has found. The details of the audit of a new system in Malahide Library, Dublin are outlined in the DPC’s latest annual report, published today. [Clip] Shortly […]
From the Google Blog: “Harry Potter: A History of Magic” is an exhibition from the British Library containing rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from the British Library’s collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic from across the world, which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories. [Clip] “The British Library is thrilled that our blockbuster ‘Harry […]
From COSLA and IML: Registration is open for two webinars to learn about and comment on the draft Action Plan for the Measures that Matter initiative. Dates and Times Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 4:00 pm ET and Wednesday March 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm ET. The content of the two sessions will be the […]
New Blog Post From The Getty: “The New Face of Provenance Research”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From The Getty Iris: Like the stories depicted in them, works of art have stories of their own. These stories—of how an art object travels, is bought and sold, and physically changes over time—are called its provenance. [Clip] Provenance is also important to a more casual researcher, or to an art historian or curator whose main […]
From Emory University: Emory University has been awarded a grant of $300,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for use by the Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) to fund a new initiative allowing researchers at Emory, across the U.S. and abroad to update and expand the renowned website Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database hosted at Emory. […]