Latest Information Industry News and Resources
The Television Academy Foundation Launches New Portal For “The Interviews: An Oral History of Television”
From The TVA: The Television Academy Foundation has launched its new website for The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, featuring never-before-seen interviews with many of television's most beloved stars, show creators and behind-the-scenes innovators. It is the world's largest such … [Read More...]
New York City’s Three Library Systems Post “Libraries Are For Everyone” Video
From the Video's Description: Libraries are a lifeline for all New Yorkers. People from every background rely on library services—from ESOL classes to early literacy programs to technology training—to help them learn and discover new opportunities. This is why the city’s three library … [Read More...]
Cultural Heritage: Digitized Items From the Boston Public Library’s Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, and Walt Whitman Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth Database
From the Digital Commonwealth New Collections Update (Items Added April 2018) All those April showers (rain and snow alike) brought over 3,300 new items to the Digital Commonwealth. The largest donation came from the National Archives at Boston with its Watertown Arsenal Photographs … [Read More...]
Digital Collections: The Munch Museum in Oslo Publishes More than 7,600 Drawings Online for Free
From The Art Newspaper: The Munch Museum in Oslo has published more than 7,600 of the artist’s drawings online, making them free to access for any purpose—even merchandising. The three-year project to digitise the works, billed as a digital catalogue raisonné, responds to a wider call for … [Read More...]
News Roundup
1. Digital Science Selects LibLynx To Provide Identity Management Across Portfolio 2. Gold Open Access in the UK (via Springer) … [Read More...]
Boston University Appoints K. Matthew Dames University Librarian
Here' s the Full Text of Today's Boston University Appointment Announcement: K. Matthew Dames, a nationally recognized scholar in copyright law and innovator in library sciences, has been appointed the next Boston University Librarian. Currently Georgetown University Associate University … [Read More...]
New White Paper From Portage Network: “Research Data Preservation in Canada”
From Canada's Portage Network: The Portage Network has just released a white paper entitled Research Data Preservation in Canada, written by members of the Portage Preservation Expert Group (PEG), on behalf of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries: Umar Qasim - PEG Chair … [Read More...]
Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive Holding Public Digitization Event at Boston Public Library
From Boston.com Members of the local hip-hop community are being invited to bring pictures, recordings, flyers, magazines and other unique memorabilia to the Boston Public Library in Copley Square on Saturday. The materials will be digitally added to the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive launched by … [Read More...]
DataCite Offers a Look at DOI Registrations for Software (58,301 DOIs Registrations as of May 16th)
From DataCite: We know that software is important in research, and some of us in the scholarly communications community, for example, in FORCE11, have been pushing the concept of software citation as a method to allow software developers and maintainers to get academic credit for their work: … [Read More...]
Report: “Why are AI Researchers Boycotting a New Nature Journal—and Shunning Others?”
From Science: As of 15 May, about 3000 people, mostly academic computer scientists, had signed a petition promising not to submit, review, or edit articles for Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI), a new journal from the publisher Springer Nature set to begin publication in January 2019. The … [Read More...]
Constantia Constantinou Appointed Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries
Here's the Full Text of the University of Pennsylvania Appointment Announcement: University of Pennsylvania Provost Wendell Pritchett today announced the appointment of Constantia Constantinou as the H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries, effective Aug. … [Read More...]
California: San Francisco Public Library’s “$3.4M Radio Frequency Technology Proposal Meets with Opposition”
From the San Francisco Examiner: The San Francisco Public Library is trying for a second time after more than a decade to convince the Board of Supervisors to provide funding to deploy radio frequency technology in books and other lending materials. But at least one supervisor wants to kill the … [Read More...]
New Journal Article: “Academic Information on Twitter: A User Survey”
The following article was published today (May 17, 2018) by PLoS ONE. Title Academic Information on Twitter: A User Survey Authors Ehsan Mohammadi University of South Carolina Mike Thelwall University of Wolverhampton Mary Kwasny Northwestern University Feinberg School of … [Read More...]
University of British Columbia Library Digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and Launches Digital Colouring Book Series
From UBC Library: When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in August 2016, the announcement marked the successful end of a long journey to bring the book to UBC, but the book’s preservation story was just beginning. Printed by William Morris’ Kelmscott … [Read More...]
$1.3M Gift Will Support Digital Upgrade of Johns Hopkins Medical Archives
From The Hub: Mario Molina, president of the Golden Shore Medical Group and trustee of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has donated $1.3 million to help launch a major digital upgrade of the Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. The gift, which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the … [Read More...]
Chicago Plan Commission Unanimously Approves Plans For Obama Presidential Center
From the Chicago Tribune: After more than seven hours of emotional and passionate testimony from hundreds of residents, community activists and elected officials, the Chicago Plan Commission voted overwhelmingly to approve the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday afternoon. The decision was a … [Read More...]
News Roundup (May 17, 2018)
1. CLIR Appoints Presidential Fellows Herman Pabbruwe and Elizabeth Waraksa (via CLIR) & Elizabeth Waraksa Appointed Presidential Fellow by Council on Library and Information Resources (via ARL) 2. OpenAIRE partners with the Open Science MOOC 3. Debra Hanken Kurtz, DuraSpace CEO, to … [Read More...]
National Library of Medicine to Discontinue PubMed Health on October 31, 2018
From the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has decided to discontinue PubMed Health effective October 31, 2018, as the majority of information it provides is available in more heavily used NLM resources, such as PubMed, Bookshelf, and MedlinePlus. By focusing … [Read More...]
New Video: “GDPR and What It Means for Researchers” (Recording of May 2018 LIBER Webinar)
The webinar embedded below was presented by LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and recorded on May 17, 2018. From the LIBER Website: Speakers Maria Rehbinder (Senior Legal Counsel at Aalto University and Certified Information Privacy Professional) and Marlon Domingus (Data … [Read More...]
Research Tools: Stanford Law’s Center for Internet and Society Launches “World Intermediary Liability Map 2.0″
From the Center for Internet and Society: The Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) announced today the launch of its new and improved World Intermediary Liability Map. Known as the WILMap, this online resource brings together a global team of expert volunteers who track the rapidly … [Read More...]
