Latest Information Industry News and Resources
University of Virginia: Alderman Library to Close in May 2020 and Reopen by Spring of 2023
From The Cavalier Daily: John Unsworth, the University’s Dean of Libraries and an English professor, sent an email to the University community Wednesday afternoon regarding the continuation of the Alderman Library renovations. The email stated that Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) recently approved … [Read More...]
EDUCAUSE Releases 2019 Horizon Report: Higher Education Edition
From EDUCAUSE: EDUCAUSE is proud to continue the tradition of excellence begun by the New Media Consortium's (NMC) work on the Horizon Report. The report serves as a reference and technology planning guide for educators, higher education leaders, administrators, policy makers, and … [Read More...]
New Resources: Congressional Budget Office Releases an Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Effects of Certain Social Security Policies
From the CBO: Today, the Congressional Budget Office released an interactive tool for analyzing the effects of certain Social Security policies. The tool is one of many products that CBO has provided to policymakers and analysts so that they can assess the effects of different policies on the … [Read More...]
LSU Libraries and Student Government Partner to Implement Textbook Lending Program
From The Reveille: LSU Student Government is partnering with LSU Libraries to implement a Textbook Lending Program at the University in which single copies of 15 textbooks will be available for students to check out and scan passages from. [Clip] Political science sophomore Miranda Campbell toured … [Read More...]
Universities in Ethiopia and Serbia Adopt Open Access and Open Science Policies
From EIFL: EIFL welcomes the news that four more universities in EIFL partner countries, one in Ethiopia and three in Serbia, have adopted open access and open science policies. [Clip] Among the three universities in Serbia is University of Belgrade, the oldest and largest university in the … [Read More...]
UMass Amherst: Mass Aggie Seed Library Opens at the Science and Engineering Library
From the UMass Amherst Library: The Mass Aggie Seed Library at the Science and Engineering Library, now open for seed borrowing and donation, houses a collection focusing on organic, open-pollinated, and heirloom vegetable and flower seeds, as well as a collection of books to educate the community … [Read More...]
Roundup (April 24, 2019)
Massachusetts: For First Time, State’s Highest Court Extends Right To Privacy to Cellphone Location Data (via Boston Globe) Mind-Reading Device Uses AI to Turn Brainwaves Into Audible Speech (via New Scientist) Standards: W3C Publishes New Version of the Roadmap of Web Applications on … [Read More...]
Conference Paper: “Institution as Social Media Collector: Lessons Learned from the Library of Congress”
The following paper was presented at the 2018 IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) and posted online today (April 23, 2019). Title Institution as Social Media Collector: Lessons Learned from the Library of Congress Authors Kate ZwaardDigital Strategy Directorate, Library of … [Read More...]
Results From OpenGLAM Principles Survey
From a Post on the Wikimedia Foundation "Down the Rabbit Whole" Blog on Medium: As open access has become broadly adopted in the cultural sector, the need for stronger collaboration between stakeholders in this area has grown. In 2018, a group of people connected to Creative Commons, the Wikimedia … [Read More...]
Reference: U.S. Census Releases 2018 Voting and Registration Data, New Data Show Voter Turnout From Midterm Elections
From the United States Census: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the 2018 voting and registration table package. These November 2018 election data come from the Voting and Registration Supplement to the Current Population Survey, which surveys the civilian noninstitutionalized population in the … [Read More...]
New Resource: OCR4all (Open Source Text Recognition Software for Historical Texts)
From the University of Würzburg: Historians and other Humanities’ scholars often have to deal with difficult research objects: centuries-old printed works that are difficult to decipher and often in an unsatisfactory state of conservation. Many of these documents have now been digitized – … [Read More...]
Norway and Elsevier Agree on Pilot National Licence for Research Access and Publishing
The following joint statement was released today. It follows news from mid-March that Unit (Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research) had decided not to renew with Elsevier and had signed a national licensing deal with Wiley. From a Joint Announcement … [Read More...]
Roundup (April 23, 2019)
ALA, PLA Select First Round of Libraries Lead with Digital Skills Awardees Agreement Between BCI and the University of Toronto to Extend OCUL’S Research Data Repository Service to Quebec Researchers Nine Universities Team Up to Create Global Infrastructure for Digital Academic Credentials (via … [Read More...]
New Research Resource: OceanReports Tool Brings Ocean Data to Your Fingertips
From the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management/NOAA: A new, web-based interactive tool for ocean mapping and planning created by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will give … [Read More...]
New Digital Collection: Library of Congress Introduces “General News on the Internet” Web Archive
From LC's "Headlines and Heroes" Blog: A new digital collection, The General News on the Internet, is a free archive of online-only news sites collected from the web. The Library of Congress began preserving these sites in June 2014. How are these news-based sites captured? The Library uses a … [Read More...]
Web Archiving: China’s National Library to Archive 200 Billion Weibo Posts in Project to Preserve Country’s Digital Heritage
From the South China Morning Post: The National Library of China will archive over 200 billion public posts on Weibo, the country’s popular Twitter-style microblogging site, as part of an initiative to preserve the digital heritage of the world’s biggest internet population. More than 210 … [Read More...]
Research Paper: “#Cyberbullying in the Digital Age: People’s Perspective and Information Sharing Behavior on Twitter” (Preprint)
The paper (preprint) linked below has been submitted to the ASIS&T Conference 2019. Title #Cyberbullying in the Digital Age: People’s Perspective and Information Sharing Behavior on Twitter Authors Iman TahamtanUniversity of Tennessee Li-Min HuangUniversity of Tennessee Source via … [Read More...]
More Common Questions About NARA’s Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
From the National Archives and Records Administration: In this post, we are continuing to answer some of the common questions we’ve received about FERMI. This post focuses on questions about electronic records management approaches and how FERMI supports the transition to digital … [Read More...]
Roundup (April 22, 2019)
Digital Preservation: Scaling LOCKSS (LOCKSS Blog) Long-Lost Kafka Works Could Emerge After Messy Legal Battle (via AP) NYU: Grant from Commencement Speaker’s Foundation Funds Library Preservation (via Washington Square News) Resource Round-Up: New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon (via NNLM New … [Read More...]
87-Year-old Detroit Library Reopens After Brush with Disaster
From the Detroit Free Press Boasting everything from unique photos of the likes of Henry Ford, Louis Chevrolet and Amelia Earhart to color swatches for classic car restoration and documents from Detroit’s role in winning World War II, the National Automotive History Collection is back in … [Read More...]
