Latest Information Industry News and Resources
A New Report From OCLC Research and ITHAKA S+R: “University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning Library Strategies with Institutional Directions”
From OCLC Research: University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types. Supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, project … [Read More...]
Garage Museum Partners with Rutgers University to Digitize Russian Art Archive
From Art News: Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has linked up with Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to digitize the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI), a collection of materials related to poetry, theory, and artworks produced in the Soviet Union … [Read More...]
New Journal Article: “The Why We Retweet Scale”
The following article was published on October 18, 2018 by PLoS One. Title The Why We Retweet Scale Authors Anuja Majmundar Keck School of Medicine of USC Jon-Patrick Allem Keck School of Medicine of USC Tess Boley Cruz Keck School of Medicine of USC Jennifer Beth Unger Keck … [Read More...]
“Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem”, Report, Slides, Video Available Online From TOME Task Force Third Annual meeting
From the Association of Research Libraries: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) is a five-year pilot initiative to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited … [Read More...]
Indiana University Libraries and IU Network Science Institute are Leading A Public-Private Partnership to Create the Shared BigData Gateway for Research Libraries
From Indiana University: Students, faculty and researchers across the Midwest and beyond will gain critical access to new research data through a cloud-based platform whose construction has been made possible under a large-scale partnership led by the IU Libraries and IU Network Science … [Read More...]
University of Tennessee Grad Student Studies How Libraries Can Better Serve the Homeless
From the University of Tennessee: Olivia Forehand of Nashville is a graduate student in the School of Information Sciences in the College of Communication and Information. Her research, conducted last spring for the course Diversity Leadership in Information Organizations, taught by Professor … [Read More...]
Closing the Gap Between University Presses and Libraries
From Lindsey McKenzie at Inside Higher Ed: MIT Press and the University of Michigan Press have both announced plans to start selling their ebook collections directly to libraries by creating their own distribution platforms. The publishers previously did not have a mechanism for selling to … [Read More...]
News Roundup (October 18, 2018)
1. Tumblr Fixes Security Bug that Leaked Private Account Info (via Bleeping Computer) 2. Cambridge University Press Issues Public Statement on Plan S … [Read More...]
Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy Approves 21 Projects For Funding
From the National Heritage Digitization Strategy: The National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) is providing $1 million to support 21 projects by archives, libraries and documentary heritage institutions throughout Canada. The recipients of the Digitization Canadian Collection funding call … [Read More...]
Interview: A Conversation with Robert McDonald, Dean of University Libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder
Note: Robert McDonald was named Dean of University Libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder on April 3o, 2018 and began work on August 1st. Previously McDonald was Dean for Research and Technology Strategies and Librarian at Indiana University. The Q&A style interview published on … [Read More...]
New Report: “State Archiving in the Digital Era: A Playbook for the Preservation of Electronic Records”
The report “State Archiving in the Digital Era: A Playbook for the Preservation of Electronic Records” was published today by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA). From the Publication Announcement: States uniquely … [Read More...]
Data/Report: ACT Releases Condition of College and Career Readiness 2018 Report; Math Readiness Drops to 14-Year Low Among U.S. High School Graduates
From ACT: Readiness in math is trending downward among ACT-tested US high school graduates, falling to its lowest mark in 14 years, according to The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2018, ACT’s annual score report. The report, released today, is based on 2018 graduates around the country … [Read More...]
Research Article: “The History, Advocacy and Efficacy of Data Management Plans” (Preprint)
The following article (preprint) was recently posted to bioRxiv. Title The History, Advocacy and Efficacy of Data Management Plans Authors Nicholas Smale RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Kathryn J Unsworth CSIRO, Clayton, Australia Gareth Denyer University of Sydney, … [Read More...]
Apple Launches a New Privacy Website that Lets You Find all the Data the Company Has on You
From CNBC: Apple is moving forward several privacy upgrades Wednesday, including launching a portal that allows customers to search and see what kind of data the company has kept on them. The privacy portal was already tested in the European Union in May, coinciding with the EU's launch of … [Read More...]
Data Labs: Datalab.kb.se – A Report For the National Library of Sweden
Introductory blog post by Professor Pelle Snickars, Author of the Report From the Introduction: The primary function of library labs are to deliver digital collections as data (or datasets) to researchers and other interested users, as well as to enable research or tinkering with the same … [Read More...]
New Digital Collection: The Papers of President Theodore Roosevelt Now Online From the Library of Congress (260,000 Documents, 461,000 Images)
From LC: The largest collection of the papers of President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting his extraordinary career in the White House and as vice president, governor of New York, and as a naturalist, writer and reformer, has been digitized and is now available online from the Library of … [Read More...]
News Roundup (October 17, 2018)
1. Clarivate Analytics Refresh of the Journal Citation Reports Data 2. Enabling Further Research of Information Operations on Twitter (via Twitter Blog) & Twitter Opens Archive Of 4,500 Accounts Related to Russia and Iran’s Political Propaganda (via TechCrunch) 3. Hypothesis … [Read More...]
Trinity College Dublin Announces Launch of the Oscar Wilde Digital Collection
From Trinity College Dublin: The [Oscar Wilde] manuscript collection, comprising some 150 items including letters, photographs, theatre programmes, as well as items of memorabilia, will now be made freely available online to a global audience. In addition, a new catalogue of the Library’s … [Read More...]
FTC is Making Consumer Complaint Data More Accessible, Aggregated Data Will Now Be Released Quarterly
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission hears from millions of consumers each year about fraud, identity theft, and other problems, allowing us to warn other consumers about scams they should watch out for, while also providing the agency with an important source of information to support our … [Read More...]
Research Tools: “MapLight Unveils New Tool to Track Money in California Politics Ahead of Midterm Election”
From MapLight: MapLight unveiled a new resource today for tracking money in California politics ahead of next month’s election. The California Political Money Tracker provides a user-friendly layout that displays overall campaign contributions as well as independent expenditures supporting and … [Read More...]
