MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2019
From the Stanford Libraries “Remix” Newsletter: Rarebooks.stanford.edu is a new resource that enables scholars, students, librarians, book professionals, and collectors to search across and within the full text of over 100 rare book bibliographies, library catalogs and sales catalogs in many disciplines. Direct to “Rare Books: A Digital Library of Reference Works”
Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation (via NY Times) BBC Reveals More Details on Beeb Voice Assistant, Confirms International and Commercial Availability Outside UK (via DTV Europe) Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages with British Police
From Vox: Now, a new tool called Guard promises to read the privacy policies of various apps for us. It harnesses the power of AI to analyze reams of text, breaking down each sentence for the level of risk it represents for our privacy. Guard currently takes the form of a free website featuring analysis of certain […]
From Science: A Turkish food engineer and human rights activist was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in jail after publishing the results of a study he and other scientists had done that linked toxic pollution to a high incidence of cancer in western Turkey. Bülent Şık, former deputy director of the Food Safety and Agricultural […]
From the Center for Disease Control: The latest findings from the investigation into lung injuries associated with e-cigarette use, or vaping, suggest THC products play a role in the outbreak. Most of the people (77%) in this outbreak reported using THC-containing products, or both THC-containing products and nicotine-containing products, according to a report published today […]
Conference Paper: “Leaving Comfort Behind: a National Union Catalogue Transition to Linked Data”
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|The following paper was presented at the Data Intelligence In Libraries: The Actual and Artificial Perspectives in August at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt, Germany. This event was a satellite meeting to the IFLA WLIC 2019 in Athens, Greece. Title Leaving Comfort Behind: a National Union Catalogue Transition to Linked Data Authors Bodil Wennerlund National Library […]
From Artstor: The Open Artstor: Wellcome Collection is now available, featuring a selection of more than 100,000 images from the Wellcome Collection that connect science, medicine, technology, life, and art under Creative Commons licenses. This is part of a new, free initiative to aggregate open museum, library, and archive collections across disciplines on the Artstor platform — already a destination for […]
Patty Wong and Steven Yates are the Candidates for 2020-21 Presidency of the American Library Association (ALA)
Associations and Organizations, Awards, EBSCO, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Publishing, School Libraries
|From the American Library Association: Patty Wong, City Librarian at Santa Monica (Calif.) Public Library. and Steven Yates, Assistant Director, University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies, are the candidates for the 2020-21 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA). Patty Wong is the city librarian at Santa Monica (Calif.) Public Library. She […]
Texas Tech University Faculty Members Awarded $345,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to Develop Training for Recognizing Predatory Publishing
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Interviews, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From Texas Tech: Amy Koerber, professor and associate dean for administration & finance in Texas Tech University’s College of Media & Communication, is looking to develop a program that will educate people on open-access publishing and how to distinguish “predatory” journals from credible ones. “Open-source publishing itself has emerged as a perfectly legitimate way to […]
From Carnegie Reporter (Carnegie Corp. of New York): New broadband access and low-cost digital tools like smartphones and mobile applications hold great promise for African libraries and universities, enabling students, scholars, and researchers to take deep dives into the rich histories of their countries, to explore and enrich postcolonial identities, and to create the sort […]