MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2018
From JSTOR: Derek Miller’s project, To Quote or Not to Quote, features all of the Bard’s plays, but actors won’t be using it to memorize their lines. The professor of theater history at Harvard University has created a clear–yet blurry–visualization of how we cite the works of William Shakespeare. Using an API built by JSTOR Labs to calculate […]
Research Libraries: “Partnering in the Research and Learning Ecosystem: An Interview with Mary Lee Kennedy (Executive Director of ARL)”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From EDUCAUSE Review: The new executive director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) discusses the association’s future vision and its plans for collaboration with partners to ensure meaningful contributions to higher education, research, and learning. Here’s One Exchange from the Interview: EDUCAUSE: What does the library community struggle with most when it comes to […]
UPDATED August 20, 2018 NARA Releases Additional 12,349 Pages Of Records Of Brett Kavanaugh From His Service With The Office Of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr UPDATED August 15, 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Third Batch of Kavanaugh Records See Also: Links to All Documents re: Judge Brett Kavanaugh Released by Senate Judiciary (Last Updated: August […]
1. Europe: A Second Market For “Used” E-Books – European Court Of Justice Will Decide (via Lime Green IP News) 2. Hot off the press! @usedgov publishes call for applications for the $5 million Open Textbook Pilot funded by Congress earlier this year. #OpenTextbooksFY18 #OER https://t.co/tz7Nh25v5E — SPARC (@SPARC_NA) July 30, 2018 3. AHA Executive Director […]
Discovery: University of Michigan Libraries Officially Launches Full Version of New Search Interface
|From University of Michigan Libraries: On July 30, the U-M Library launched the full version of its new search interface, which combines various search paths and tools — Mirlyn, Search Tools, ArticlesPlus, etc. — into one interface that’s faster and works on mobile devices and equipment using assistive technologies. This new search interface has been […]
The following article was recently published by the Journal of E-Science Librarianship. Title Supporting the Proliferation of Data-Sharing Scholars in the Research Ecosystem Author Ali Krzton Auburn University Source Journal of E-Science Librarianship Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 2018) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1145 Abstract Librarians champion the value of openness in scholarship and have been powerful advocates […]
A video recording of Dan Whaley’s presentation/demo at the J. Willard Marriott Library (University of Utah) is now available online and embedded below. The video was recorded on September 12, 2017. Description Hear how open annotation promises to bring an open, collaborative layer over the web and all scholarly literature, and learn about Hypothesis the […]
Princeton University Library Partners with HBCUs in Inaugural Archiving Program
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From Princeton University: Princeton University Library partnered with five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) for the inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program July 9-13. The program welcomed 12 undergraduate and two graduate students from HBCUs across the country to Princeton’s campus. The goal of the ARCH Program was to introduce students to […]
From the U.S Census (via E-Mail): This is the first release of the table package showing detailed occupation and education for people age 25 and older. The tables were created with statistics from the 2016 American Community Survey. These tables show detailed occupation by: Number of workers by sex and education for full-time, year-round workers Median earnings […]
From ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites): To quote from the text of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, “the ‘intangible cultural heritage’ means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some […]