News Roundup (May 9, 2018)
1. University of Kansas: KU Libraries Support New Open Educational Resources Through Grant Initiative
2. First Public Working Draft: Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) – Revised Edition Posted on W3C Website
3. National Endowment for the Arts Awards $80.5 Million in Funding in Second Round of Funding for FY 2018 (1071 Grants)
4. Open Knowledge International (OKI) Publishes 2017 Annual Report
5. Chicago Public Media Joins Chicago Collections Consortium
6. UK: JISC Issues Call to Publishers For Digital Archival Collections Group Purchasing Scheme as Pilot Program Ends at the End of this Month
7. University of North Carolina Wilmington Announces Lucy Holman as University Librarian
8. Elsevier Teams up With PerkinElmer to Enable Faster, More Intuitive Chemistry Research
9.
651,621,510,000 web URL's now in the Wayback Machine by @internetarchive . Billions and Billions of web pages! users hitting "save page now" at 100 per second: https://t.co/AWpIBUrEW1
— Brewster Kahle (@brewster_kahle) May 10, 2018
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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