MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2019
From the BBC: Fragments of a manuscript from the Middle Ages which tell the story of Merlin the magician from Arthurian legend have been found in a library. Seven hand-written fragments were found by the University of Bristol’s special collections librarian. Specialists analysing the pieces said they contained “subtle but significant” differences from the traditional […]
Library as Publisher: University of North Carolina University Libraries Publishes Biography of UNC Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase, Distributed by UNC Press Net Neutrality Fight Returns To Court (via The Hill) Springer Nature Begins Offering KBART Automated Holdings Feeds for Discovery Services From Audio Waves to Words: Episodes of “The Daily” Now […]
From the Google Blog: Over the past seven years, we’ve worked with cultural institutions to create experiments and features that help you find your art doppelganger and uncover color connections between images. Together, we created augmented reality features so everybody can dive into a virtual gallery or display life-size artworks, wherever you are. Today, you […]
The following article was published online earlier today. Title From Coalition to Commons: Plan S and the Future of Scholarly Communication Author Rob Johnson Research Consulting Source Insights 32 (1): 5. DOI: 10.1629/uksg.453 Abstract The announcement of Plan S in September 2018 triggered a wide-ranging debate over how best to accelerate the shift to open […]
New Report on School Libraries and School Library Services in New Zealand Aotearoa
Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Reports, School Libraries
|From a National Library of New Zealand Blog Post: In May 2018, National Library’s Services to Schools launched a nationwide survey of school libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand. This was a joint project conducted with SLANZA and LIANZA. More than 550 people took part in the survey from approximately 20% of schools in New Zealand. […]
Massachusetts State Archives Expands, New Vault Opens
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Patrons and Users
|From The Boston Globe: Massachusetts officials on Tuesday unveiled a new vault to store the commonwealth’s myriad historical treasures and documents accumulated over nearly four centuries. The expanded 25,000 square-foot space in Dorchester allow the archives to grow after the Columbia Point building reached a “critical point” of limited space, said Michael Comeau, executive director […]
From the AAPB: The Georgia Gazette Collection consists of 102 Georgia Gazette radio programs produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, Georgia from 1992-2007. [Clip] Georgia Gazette is considered to be the longest running Georgia focused radio program in the country. Each episode focused on a variety of topics with reports from all across the […]
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is continuing to develop features in PubMed Labs, with new tools and functionality added on a regular basis. Recent releases added several ways to save and share citations, as well as enhancements to the search results and abstract pages. What’s New: […]
East View Information Services Forms Alliance with the Center for Research Libraries to Digitize and Make Available 4.5 Million Pages of Newspaper Content Available; 3 Million Pages Will Be Open Access
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|From East View Information Services: East View Information Services is pleased to announce a groundbreaking alliance with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to digitize and make available 4.5 million pages of international newspaper content. This initiative, part of the East View Global Press Archive® program, will deliver 1.5 million pages of content for all […]
The following paper was recently shared on arXiv. It will be presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. Title ‘I Make Up a Silly Name’: Understanding Children’s Perception of Privacy Risks Online Authors Jun ZhaoUniversity of Oxford Ge WangUniversity College London Carys DallyUniversity […]