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UNC University Libraries: “University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to Be Partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance”
From UNC University Libraries: The University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to be partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance. On the Books uses text mining and machine learning to identify racist language in North Carolina legal documents during the Jim Crow … [Read More...]
A New Paper by Jonathan Band: “Justice Breyer, Copyright, and Libraries”
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): On the occasion of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer retiring at the end of this US Supreme Court term, Jonathan Band, who represents and advises the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on copyright issues, wrote a reflection on Breyer’s impact on … [Read More...]
Report: “Texas Librarians Face Harassment as They Navigate Book Bans”
From The Texas Tribune: For those librarians working at schools and at public libraries, the pressure to keep some challenged books off the shelves is growing. And some Texas librarians say the insults and threats through social media and the added pressure from supervisors to remove books are … [Read More...]
Roundup (May 17, 2022)
Institutions Partner With ACS to Advance First California-Wide Transformative Open Access Agreement The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Support for Reveal Digital … [Read More...]
Chicago: “Online Library Collection Celebrates Hull-House on Anniversary of Founder’s Death”
From the University of Illinois at Chicago: To help commemorate the life of Jane Addams on the 87th anniversary of the Nobel Laureate’s death, the University of Illinois Chicago Library has released digitized yearbooks and annual reports from the settlement house she co-founded. The collection is … [Read More...]
Journal Article: “A Mapping Review of Literature on Blockchain Usage by Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities”
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Many thanks to SAGE for opening their paywall to infoDOCKET so we can share the full text article linked below at no charge. The article will be accessible for one month (beginning today) by … [Read More...]
New Free Ebook From the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): “The Covid Archive: A Finding Aid to Government Documents Related to the Covid19 Pandemic”
From DPLA: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce the publication of a free ebook, The Covid Archive: A finding aid to government documents related to the Covid19 Pandemic. The Covid Archive is a digital finding aid for the digital archive of government documents related to … [Read More...]
New From WHO and UNICEF: Almost One Billion Children and Adults With Disabilities and Older Persons in Need of Assistive Technology Denied Access, According to New Report
From a Joint News Release: A new report published today by WHO and UNICEF reveals that more than 2.5 billion people need one or more assistive products, such as wheelchairs, hearing aids, or apps that support communication and cognition. Yet nearly one billion of them are denied access, … [Read More...]
Podcast: “Book Banning: Local Fights, Dangerous Implications” (Conversation with ALA/OIF’s Deborah Caldwell-Stone)
From the Speech Matters Podcast (Episode 3): In this episode, special guest Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, discusses the alarming rise in book bans across the United … [Read More...]
Report: “Texas A&M Weighs Sweeping Changes to Library”
From Inside Higher Education: The Texas A&M University system is working on a plan that would make sweeping changes across its 10 libraries. Those changes, still being discussed, would include asking librarians to relinquish tenure or transfer to another academic department to keep it. The plan … [Read More...]
Roundup (May 16, 2022)
Arcadia Fund Supports Plazi to Further Develop Its Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) Now Open for ORCID Board Elections 2023! The Humanities Retain a Substantial Role in the Nation’s High Schools (via Humanities Indicators/AAAS) University of California: Office of Scholarly Communications … [Read More...]
Journal Article: “Evolving Nature of Library Technical Services in Response to Outsourcing”
The article linked below was recently published by Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals. Title Evolving Nature of Library Technical Services in Response to Outsourcing Author Jolene Bennett University of Calgary Source Pathfinder: A … [Read More...]
Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week
From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not … [Read More...]
Crossref: 2022 Public Data File of More Than 134 Million Metadata Records Now Available
From a Crossref Blog Post by Patrick Polischuk: In 2020 we released our first public data file, something we’ve turned into an annual affair supporting our commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). We’ve just posted the 2022 file, which can now be downloaded via torrent … [Read More...]
Dave Hansen and Kyle Courtney: “Controlled Digital Lending For Resource Sharing: Law and Policy Since 2018″(OCLC RSC 22 Recording)
The video below (recorded on April 6, 2022) as part of the 2022 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference Web Series. From OCLC: For more than a decade, libraries have engaged in a variety of digital lending practices that are now described as controlled digital lending (CDL). But only more recently, in … [Read More...]
EveryLibrary: “Utah AG Publishes Clear Guidance Protecting School Libraries”
From the EveryLibrary Website: In Utah, the Attorney General’s Office, as required by the new law, “H.B. 374 Sensitive Materials in Schools” issued an official memorandum as guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) to help school boards and superintendents understand the laws surrounding school … [Read More...]
Research Tools: “Census Bureau Releases Digital Equity Act Population Viewer”
From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of the Digital Equity Act Population Viewer, an interactive collection of maps that highlight various demographics and broadband internet availability and adoption by state. The maps help policymakers plan and implement digital … [Read More...]
Michael Rodriguez: UConn Librarian and Wiki Writer
From the University of Connecticut: Among the more than 6rom across UConn’s past and present – from Ratcliffe Hicks to Andrew Agwunobi, from the Benton Museum to Charles and Augustus Storrs. These widely varied encyclopedic entries share a commonality: They were written by Michael … [Read More...]
Milestones: “RePEc Celebrates 25 Years and 4 Million Indexed Items”
From a RePEc Blog Post: 25 years ago, on 12 May 1997, a meeting among a few economists and librarians laid the foundation for RePEc. Thomas Krichel describes this meeting in a recent RePEc blog post. As more research was starting to get shared on the web, it became infeasible to index all of it by … [Read More...]
Report: Digitization, Open Access and the Internet Aid UCLA’s Return of Books Looted by Nazis
From UCLA Newsroom by Ben Alkaly: It began with internet sleuthing 6,000 miles east of Westwood, and the spotting of a telltale purple ownership stamp. It was the unmistakable ink mark of the Jewish Community Library in Prague, Czech Republic, hiding in plain sight on the title page of … [Read More...]
