MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2018
Note: A tweet from @arXiv points out that this new experimental feature is only available (at this time) for papers listed in the Computer Science section of arXiv. From the arXiv Labs Website: The arXiv bibliographic explorer displays information about works that cite and are cited by arXiv papers and their published versions. The primary […]
Facebook Reports a Security Breach Involving Almost 50 Million Accounts
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|UPDATE October 12, 2018: Facebook Provides Update on Recently Announced Breach, Hackers Accessed Data From About 29 Million Users First, the attackers already controlled a set of accounts, which were connected to Facebook friends. They used an automated technique to move from account to account so they could steal the access tokens of those friends, […]
Libraries and Library Organizations Sign-On to “Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books” Position Statement
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|UPDATE: List of more than 20 libraries/library organizations and nearly 40 individual signatories of the position statement. From a Blog Post by Dave Hansen (Duke University) and Kyle K. Courtney (Harvard University): We’re very pleased to announce the release of two documents that we believe have the potential to help greatly expand digital access to […]
LIBER on “Federated Identity Management for Libraries: Why and How”
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|From a LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries): The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will build a trusted environment for open cross-disciplinary research in Europe. Millions of researchers, science and technology professionals will be able to use the EOSC, and they will be supported by libraries in their natural roles as champions of Open Science […]
AV Preservation: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces $546,281 in Recordings at Risk Grants
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|From CLIR: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 18 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants. This is the fourth group of projects supported by the Recordings at Risk awards program, a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio […]
From Pew Research: The use of digital technology has had a long stretch of rapid growth in the United States, but the share of Americans who go online, use social media or own key devices has remained stable the past two years, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center data. The shares of U.S. […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors 2018–2019 Elected by ARL Membership
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|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): Susan Gibbons, the Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian and deputy provost for collections and scholarly communication at Yale University, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on Wednesday, September 26, during the Association’s Fall 2018 Meeting in Washington, DC. Gibbons succeeds Mary […]
Digital Library of Georgia Adds Historic Letters by Girl Scouts Founder Juliette Gordon Low
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|From the Savannah Morning News: Juliette Gordon Low’s India diaries are part of a broad historical collection the Digital Library of Georgia is compiling for the public to use. The Digital Library, which is part of GALILEO, includes access to a historical newspaper collection with more than 1 million pages, said Sheila McAlister, director of the […]
From the Vancouver Sun: By Saturday, Vancouverites will have a new public space downtown in the Central Library on West Georgia. The library opens the newly renovated top two floors, which now includes a rooftop garden. In the original design competition for the library building, architect Moshe Safdie imagined either a major public or private […]
Fr0m the The Google Keyword Blog: As part of a collaboration between Google, photo industry consortium CEPIC, and IPTC, the global technical standards body for the news media, you can now access rights-related image metadata in Google Images. It’s traditionally been difficult to know the creator of images on the web, as well as who might own […]