Latest Information Industry News and Resources
New Research Tools: NASA and FAO Launch Next-Generation Geospatial Tool to Track Land-Use and Landscape Changes Anywhere (Collect Earth Online)
From a Launch Announcement: Seeing both forests and trees is about to get easier, thanks to a new open-access tool developed by US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with support from the Google Earth Engine Team and the US … [Read More...]
Library and Archives Canada Announces Launch of “Aurora” Online Public Access Catalogue, Powered by OCLC WorldCat Discovery Tech
From LAC: In its continuing efforts to renew its library system, … [Read More...]
Music: The Free Music Archive Lives On
From Radio Survivor: After coming to the brink of a shutdown when grant monies were dramatically reduced, the Free Archive announced that it will live on under the ownership of camera rental company KitSplit. A few weeks ago my Radio Survivor colleague Erick Klein talked at length with FMA … [Read More...]
National Digital Stewardship Alliance Releases 2017 Web Archiving Survey Report
From the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (via Digital Library Federation): The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is pleased to announce the release of the 2017 Web Archiving Survey Report. From October 2 to November 20, 2017, a working group of volunteers representing five NDSA … [Read More...]
Research Tools: ToxicDocs Database Levels the Playing Field for Efforts to Prevent Toxic Exposures
From Columbia University: Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest health care products maker, is in the midst of more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming that its iconic baby powder is linked to cancer. In July, a verdict by a Missouri jury awarded 22 women $4.6 billion in a lawsuit against the … [Read More...]
Peer Review: Springer Nature and Publons (Part of Clarivate Analytics) Announce Partnership
From a Joint Announcement: Springer Nature and Publons, part of Clarivate Analytics, have announced a partnership to improve the peer review process and enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution. The first part of the partnership will see Publons’ Reviewer Recognition … [Read More...]
Library of Congress: 25 Motion Pictures Including Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘Monterey Pop,’ and ‘The Shining’ Among the Titles Added to National Film Registry
From the Library of Congress: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 of America’s most influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the … [Read More...]
Now Available: Draft of ACRL Scholarly Communications Research Agenda, Feedback Welcome
From ACRL: Rebecca Kennison and Nancy Maron, selected by ACRL to design, develop, and deliver a new research agenda for scholarly communications and the research environment, have been hard at work since March 2018 with guidance and input from ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment Committee … [Read More...]
UK: Jisc and Eduserv Announce Merger
From a Jisc/Eduserv Koint Announcement: Jisc, the UK’s technology solutions organisation for higher and further education, and Eduserv, which specialises in digital transformation in local government, public bodies, healthcare, charities, higher education and emergency services, are coming … [Read More...]
U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Announces Large-Scale Digitization Project to Create Digital Repository of 33 Million Images and Other Materials
From The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA): The Army Heritage Center Foundation [located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania] Tuesday announced that the U.S. Army has awarded a digitization contract to QualX Corp. to deliver a large-scale digitization project to the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center over the … [Read More...]
Now Available: Keyword Searchable Video of Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Testimony Before U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee at a hearing held earlier today in DC. Pichai answered questions on a number of topics including data collection, data privacy, data security, algorithm bias, and political partisanship. The C-SPAN … [Read More...]
New From ESRI: Mapping American Community Survey (ACS) Data Just Got Easier
From ESRI: We are excited to announce that new feature layers containing the latest 2013-2017 five-year demographic and housing estimates of the American Community Survey (ACS) are now available within the ArcGIS platform through the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. These ready-to-use layers … [Read More...]
What Toronto Read in 2018 (Toronto Public Library’s Top 10 Most-Borrowed Books of 2018)
From the Toronto Public Library: Toronto Public Library's Top 10 Most-Borrowed Books of 2018: Official MTO Driver’s Handbook: borrowed 4,665 times so far in 2018* Origin by Dan Brown: 4,120 Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill: 4,033 The Rooster Bar by John Grisham: 3,640 Fire … [Read More...]
BookNet Canada Releases Bestselling Books of 2018 Lists (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Juvenile & YA)
From BookNet Canada: We identified the top-selling titles in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile/YA categories based on print sales volume in Canada over a 48-week period from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 2, 2018 (according to BNC SalesData, which tracks print sales in the English-language trade … [Read More...]
New Data/Report: More Than 76 Million Students Enrolled in U.S. Schools, Census Bureau Reports
From the U.S. Census: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of new data on the makeup of student bodies from kindergartens to universities across the country. According to the latest data, the number of students nationwide enrolled in school was 76.4 million in 2017, not … [Read More...]
Just Announced: United States Congressional Web Archive Now Includes Content for the 113th and 114th Congresses
From a Law Library of Congress Announcement: The Library of Congress Web Archiving Program is dedicated to providing reliable access to historical web content from the legislative branch. To that end, the Library has just released an update to the United States Congressional Web Archive. The … [Read More...]
New Data/Statistics: Measuring the Information Society Report 2018
From the ITU (International Telegraph Union) More and more people worldwide have access to and are using the Internet. At the same time, ICT prices have dropped globally in the last decade. However, stronger information and communication technology (ICT) skills are needed to connect people … [Read More...]
Just Released: Altmetric 100 (Most Discussed and Shared Scientific Research of 2018)
From Altmetric (Digital Science): From the shocking mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to the spread of false news online, many of this year’s most important issues feature in the Altmetric Top 100, released today. The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights research … [Read More...]
Research Article “Access to Academic Libraries: An Indicator of Openness?” (Preprint)
The following article was recently shared on Humanities Commons. Title Access to Academic Libraries: An Indicator of Openness? Authors Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University Lucy Montgomery Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin … [Read More...]
U.S.: Digital Divide Among School-Age Children Narrows, but Millions Still Lack Internet Connections
New from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration: America continues to make significant strides in reducing the digital divide among school-age children, according to NTIA’s November 2017 Internet Use Survey. In 2017, 14 percent of the U.S. population between ages 6 and 17 … [Read More...]
