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New York Times: 2018 Digital Misinformation Roundup
From The NY Times: The midterm elections are 17 days away. Here is a collection of coverage from The New York Times and elsewhere on efforts to mislead voters on social media and the wider internet. To help readers better understand the information landscape, journalists at The Times have … [Read More...]
Video Recording: “Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier” (Presentation by Christine Borgman at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center)
Christine Borgman, Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA spoke at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center on October 9, 2018. A video recording (embedded below) of the talk is now available. An audio only version is also available. From Harvard's Berkman Klein … [Read More...]
Report: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules State of Georgia Cannot Copyright State Code Annotations
From Law360: The Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday that the state of Georgia cannot claim copyright ownership over annotations made to its official legal code, ruling that people should have "unfettered access to the legal edicts that govern their lives." [Clip] The ruling is the second big … [Read More...]
Libraries Say Kentucky Senator Tried to Pressure Them Into Canceling Opponent’s Forums
From the Lexington Herald Leader: State Sen. Tom Buford, R-Nicholasville, protested the use of public library meeting rooms for “Teacher Talks” forums held by his Democratic challenger, and he tried to pressure the libraries’ directors into canceling the events, according to interviews with … [Read More...]
Books: City of Thieves by David Benioff Removed from Fort Myers, Florida High School
From the National Coalition Against Censorship: Fort Myers High School in Florida has removed City of Thieves, a novel by David Benioff, one of the creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones, from the 10th grade curriculum. The Florida Education Defenders, a group of education and free expression … [Read More...]
Saturday Evening Post’s Archives Now Available Digitally
From The NY Post: The Saturday Evening Post, for the first time in its nearly 200-year existence, has its storied history available digitally. “We’ve been scanning the editorial since 2009,” said Joan SerVaas, president and CEO of the current publisher, the not-for-profit Saturday Evening … [Read More...]
Fourth Annual WeDigBio (Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections) International Transcription Event Now Underway
From the WeDigBio Website: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, or WeDigBio, is a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunity, all rolled into one. The annual, 4-day WeDigBio event [October 18-21, 2018] mobilizes participants to create digital … [Read More...]
FTC Releases Staff Perspective Report on Examining Informational Injuries
From the Federal Trade Commission: Staff of the Federal Trade Commission released a new paper today outlining key takeaways from a December 12, 2017 workshop examining injuries consumers may suffer from privacy and security incidents. According to the Staff Perspective on the Informational … [Read More...]
October 2018 Issue of IFLA Journal Devoted to Digital and Library Privacy
IFLA Journal is published quarterly by the International Federation of Library Associations. The current issue (Vol. 44 No. 3; October 2018) features six articles about digital and library privacy issues and can be downloaded for free (88 pages; PDF). In This Issue Guest … [Read More...]
News Roundup (October 19, 2018)
1. Cambridge University Press Issues Public Statement on Plan S 2. Elsevier Opens AI Lab in Amsterdam 3. Copyright Office Seeks Public Comment on Digitization Efforts (via Bloomberg Law) 4. Tumblr Fixes Security Bug that Leaked Private Account Info (via Bleeping … [Read More...]
New Research Article: “Support for Electronic Lab Notebooks at Top American Research Universities”
The following article was published online today by the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB). Title Support for Electronic Lab Notebooks at Top American Research Universities Authors Franklin Sayre University of Minnesota Caitlin Bakker University of Minnesota - Twin … [Read More...]
New Research Resource: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Introduces “Local Data App” For iOS, Android Version in the Works
From BLS: BLS has partnered with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to develop a new mobile app for iPhones that is now available for free in the App Store! The BLS Local Data app is ideal for customers who want to know more about local labor markets, such … [Read More...]
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 Research 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...]
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...]
