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Arizona State University to Host National Conference on Preserving Social-Justice History
From Arizona State University: For Taylor Notah, a trip to the Arizona State University archives brought the past immediately into the present. Notah, who was searching the archives for material to use in the latest issue of Turning Points magazine, found a photograph of several students, including … [Read More...]
Harvard Librarian Puts This War Crime on the Map
From the Harvard Gazette: In August 1992, in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, nearly 2 million books went up in flames. Fragile, 500-hundred-year-old pamphlets and vibrant Ottoman-era manuscripts disintegrated into ash as the building holding them, the National Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina, was … [Read More...]
Digital Privacy: New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations
From The NY Times: New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google on Thursday, saying the tech giant used its educational products to spy on the state’s children and families. Google collected a trove of students’ personal information, including data on their physical locations, websites they … [Read More...]
New Online Collection: The British Library Brings Together 100 Treasures From Children’s Literature For The First Time (“Discovering Children’s Books”)
From The British Library: Launching today, Discovering Children’s Books explores the history and rich variety of children’s literature, drawing on inspiring material from medieval fables to contemporary picture books. The site is aimed at primary school children, teachers and lifelong … [Read More...]
Case Study: “Open Access+ Service: Reframing Library Support to Take Research Outputs to Non-Academic Audiences”
The case study linked to below was recently published by Insights. Title Open Access+ Service: Reframing Library Support to Take Research Outputs to Non-Academic Audiences Author Scott Taylor The University of Manchester Library Source Insights 33 (1): 7. Abstract The University of Manchester … [Read More...]
Collection of the Day: Digital Photographic Archive of Historic Havana
From Hampshire College: Plan Maestro Office was created in 1994 with the mandate to create a master plan for the renovation and preservation of historic Havana and for the visual documentation of the city as the planning authority of the Oficina del Historiador. Listed in 1982 as a World Heritage … [Read More...]
Recently Announced Open Access Publishing Agreements: News from ACS, DeGruyter, PLOS, and Others
February 21, 2020 American Chemical Society and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) Anounce Their First ‘Read and Publish' Agreement February 20, 2020 American Chemical Society Signs ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement With Bibsam Consortium in Sweden February 19, 2020 PLOS and the … [Read More...]
$166 Million Invested in Libraries Across America, IMLS Releases FY 2020 Allotment Table for 59 State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs)
From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services released its FY 2020 allotment table for 59 State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs), totaling $166,803,000. These annual grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories represent the largest source … [Read More...]
Research Tools: “Plants and the People Who Name Them: The International Plant Names Index and BHL”
From a Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Blog Post by Grace Costantino: At the end of the twentieth century, the The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and The Australian National Herbarium began collaboration on an ambitious project—to create an online index of names … [Read More...]
New: Add a Tweet to One You Already Tweeted
Now you can add a Tweet to one you already Tweeted, faster! pic.twitter.com/j3ktAN6t5o — Twitter (@Twitter) February 19, 2020 See Also: Twitter Now Makes it Easier toAdd New Tweets to Old Threads (via The Verge) … [Read More...]
Final Report of Post-Publication Open Peer Review Experiment Published
From an OPERAS Blog Post: A final report on the results of the post-publication open peer review experiment that took place from October 2018 to June 2019 within the HIRMEOS project has been published. The project has included the implementation of an annotation service on the OpenEdition Books … [Read More...]
“Building the Bots that Keep Wikipedia Fresh”
From Government Computing News: Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology classified the Wikipedia bots into nine roles and 25 associated functions with the goal of understanding what bots do now and what they might do in the future. Jeffrey Nickerson, professor and associate dean of research … [Read More...]
China: “Wuhan Builds Mini Libraries in Temporary COVID-19 Hospitals”
From Xinhua (Note: China's State-Run News Agency): Libraries and bookstores have joined hands to build 18 mini-libraries in temporary hospitals in China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to lend "spiritual support" to patients there. The libraries, comprising rows of … [Read More...]
News and Reports From OCLC, Montana State Library Commission, Wyoming State Archives, and Others
ALA Issues Statement Opposing a Proposed Tennessee Law That Threatens State’s Freedom to Read (via ALA) DOAJ’S [Directory of Open Access Journal] Global Activities in 2019: The Year In Review How to Contribute to Dewey Decimal Classification (via OCLC) Montana State Library Commission Asks … [Read More...]
Digital Library on American Slavery From UNC Greensboro Recognized by National Park Service (NPS) as First-Ever “Virtual” Stop on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
From UNC Greensboro: The Digital Library on American Slavery at UNC Greensboro has been recognized by the National Park Service (NPS) as the first-ever “virtual” stop on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. [Clip] The Digital Library on American Slavery is an expanding resource … [Read More...]
California: Two Firefighters Dead in Public Library Fire, Two 13-Year-Olds Arrested
Updated February 20, 2020 Chief: Firefighters Died Ensuring No One Was In Porterville Library; Department Stands Down (via Fresno Bee) A visibly distraught and fatigued Porterville Fire Chief Dave Lapere on Thursday lauded fallen firefighters Ramon “Ray” Figueroa and Patrick Jones as … [Read More...]
“UC Berkeley Library Digitizes Massive Trove of Materials on Internment Of Japanese Americans”
From the UC Berkeley Library: In the spring of 1942, approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans were banished from their homes, shuffled into squalid detainment centers as internment camps were built. Uchida’s letter is one of thousands held in The Bancroft Library, where the memory of a national … [Read More...]
Report: “Rhode Island’s Libraries are Pushing Back Against What Critics Say are Unfair Restrictions on e-Book Pricing”
From the Cranston Herald: Rhode Island’s libraries are pushing back against what critics say are unfair restrictions on e-book pricing and availability on the part of publishers – and the assistant director of the Cranston Public Library is helping to lead the charge. The Rhode Island Library … [Read More...]
PressReader Enters Into a New Licensing Agreement with Dow Jones For WSJ Content
From a News Release: PressReader today announced a new licensing deal with Dow Jones and its flagship Wall Street Journal brand. [Our emphasis] Under the terms of the deal, The Wall Street Journal's US digital replica daily edition will be made available to PressReader subscribers outside of the … [Read More...]
Columbia University’s Butler Library Creates an “Exclusive Circulation of Textbooks For First-Generation Low-Income Students
From The Columbia Spectator: This semester, Butler Library created an exclusive circulation of textbooks for first-generation low-income students to lighten that burden. This effort, led by the Columbia First-Generation Low-Income Partnership [FLIP], follows six years of student organizing for a … [Read More...]
