April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From BookNet Canada: Every winter, BookNet runs a survey to see how Canadians are spending their free time. We asked 750 people from across the country a few general questions about their favourite leisure activities, but the primary focus was on respondents’ book-reading and book-listening habits. Of the 81% of respondents who said that they […]
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
The following article appears in the latest issue of Library Leadership and Management. Title
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of the CU Boulder Announcement:: CU Boulder Provost Russell Moore has named Robert H. McDonald as dean of University Libraries. McDonald, who currently serves as associate dean for research and technology strategies and librarian at Indiana University, will assume the post on Aug. 1, 2018. “I want to welcome Robert to […]
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From University of Cambridge: To avoid disappointment, an exhibition opening this week at the Cambridge University library should carry the warning sign: “These books contain no pornography”. Despite undergraduate folklore there is no secret stash of pornography among the 200,000 books in the 17 floors of the tower, which rises 157 feet above the library. The building, […]
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From the OpenAire Blog: The OpenAIRE information space continues its impressive record of growth. This significant and consistent growth represents currently over 24 million publications and 688,870 datasets. OpenAIRE have 1,111 content providers compatible with the OpenAIRE guidelines, pointing to resources in over 11400 Repositories or OA Journals. In 2018 OpenAIRE continues receiving the registration of new content […]
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois has acquired a manuscript written by Sir Isaac Newton that provides instructions for making the philosopher’s stone, a substance thought to have special powers of transformation. The “Opus Galli Anonymi” is Newton’s Latin translation of a French work on […]
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April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From The NYT: Seventeen years after nearly 3,000 freelance journalists filed a class-action lawsuit claiming copyright infringement by some of the country’s biggest publishers, the checks are finally in the mail. The 2,500 writers who made it through the tortuous legal process will start receiving their pieces of a settlement totaling $9 million this week. […]
April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
1. Take a Look! OCLC HQ After Remodel (via Columbus CEO) 2. Senate Dems to Force Vote on Net Neutrality (via The Hill) 3. The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual (via Buzzfeed News) 4. House Appropriations Subcommittee Approves GPO’s FY 2019 Funding Request 5. Artificial Intelligence is Cracking Open […]
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April 30, 2018 by Gary Price
From a New Pew Research Data Analysis: Despite the advances women have made in the workplace, they still account for a small share of top leadership jobs. That’s true in the fields of politics and government, academia,the nonprofit sector – and particularly business. Women held only about 10% of the top executive positions (defined as chief executive officers, chief financial […]
April 29, 2018 by Gary Price
From an Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) Blog Post: A recently conducted a survey to better understand funder perspectives with respect to supporting open infrastructure. Sixteen organizations completed the questionnaire, evenly split between ORFG members and other funding bodies. The results suggest an underlying support for open initiatives and the infrastructure buttressing these activities. This is […]