Posts by Gary Price
Fourth Annual New York City Library Privacy Week Now Underway
From the City of New York Office of Technology and Innovation: The NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, NYC’s three library systems, and Metropolitan New York Library Council today announced the launch of the fourth annual Library Privacy Week, which offers free online and in-person events educating New Yorkers on internet privacy and security. NYC’s […]
Journal Article: “A Landscape of Open Science Policies Research”
The article linked below was recently published by SAGE Open. Title A Landscape of Open Science Policies Research Author Alejandra Manco Claude Bernard University, France Source SAGE Open, 12(4) DOI: 10.1177/21582440221140358 Abstract This literature review aims to examine the approach given to open science policy in the different studies. The main findings are that the approach […]
Building Digital Research Tools for Open Access to Canada’s Historical Topographic Maps and More News Headlines
Building Digital Research Tools for Open Access to Canada’s Historical Topographic Maps and Data (via University of Toronto Libraries) Newark Black Newspapers Collection Now Available Online (via Rutger University Libraries)
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Journal Article: “Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting”
The journal article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting Authors Jack E. Peplinski Western University Joanne Paterson Western University Courtney Waugh Western University Joshua M Pearce Western University Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 10(1), eP14421. DOI: 10.31274/jlsc.14421 […]
Reimagine Open Culture with the Newly Relaunched Curationist.org, Webinar Scheduled For This Week
From a Creative Commons Blog Post: Exciting news — an initiative of the MHz Foundation, Curationist.org, a free-to-use platform that connects users to over 4.4 million digital artworks and cultural objects, recently relaunched with some amazing new features. On 7 December, they will host a guided experience of the new platform, and we hope to see […]
The Guardian: “‘Our Mission is Crucial’: Meet the Warrior Librarians of Ukraine”
From The Guardian: The morning that Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, Oksana Bruy woke up worried about her laptop. Bruy is president of the Ukrainian Library Association and, the night before, she hadn’t quite finished a presentation on the new plans for the Kyiv Polytechnic Library, so she had left her computer open at […]
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The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27): Outcomes and Opportunities for Libraries & More News Headlines
Mapping Social Media Archiving Initiatives: State of the Art, Trends, and Future Perspective (via IIPC: International Internet Preservation Consortium) Stanford Libraries: Born-digital Collections Opened for Research in 2022 The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27): Outcomes and Opportunities for Libraries (via IFLA) Self-Organised Network: Does Mastodon Have What It Takes to Become the “Scholarly-Owned Social […]
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 Real News” […]
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A Letter From the New CEO of Lyrasis, John Wilkin; Indianapolis Public Library Down to Finalists For New CEO; and More News Headlines
A Letter From the New CEO of Lyrasis, John Wilkin Indianapolis Public Library Down to Finalists For New CEO Meta Sued for Collecting Financial Information Through Tax Filing Websites (via The Markup) SCOAP3 Launches Open Books Program U.S. Copyright Office Concludes Study on Best Edition Requirements
Virginia Tech University: “University Libraries’ Carbon Footprint Research Leads to International Best Paper Prize”
From Virginia Tech University: The Best Paper Prize was awarded to Alex Kinnaman and Alan Munshower of University Libraries at iPRES 2022, the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation in Glasgow, Scotland. The jury members selected Kinnaman and Munshower’s paper, “Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech,” in part because the “topic of this […]
