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Roundup (June 3, 2021)

June 3, 2021 by Gary Price

AAP (Association of American Publishers) Vows to Protect Copyright from All Challengers (via Publishers Weekly)

American Association of Law Libraries Announces 2021 Hall of Fame Award Inductees

Arts Council England Announces £3.4m Fund, “To Get the Next Phase of the ‘Single Digital Presence’ (SDP), A Long-Planned National Website for All Public Libraries, Off The Ground.” (via The Bookseller)

Elsevier Announces CiteScore 2020 Values are Now Live

Libraries, National Emergencies, and Access to Credible Information: Are We Protecting Libraries’ Multiple Roles During Emergencies? (via Authors Alliance)

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Recognizes Eight Members for Outstanding Contributions

University of Arkansas System Signs New Four-Year Agreement with Elsevier

Urban Librarians Unite Shares Responses From New York City Political Candidate Questionnaire

U.S. Department of Commerce’s NTIA Announces Nearly $1 Billion in Funding to Expand Broadband on Tribal Land (via National Telecommunications and Information Administration)

Filed under: Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing, 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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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