From The Peace Palace Library: Two of the world’s most comprehensive international law libraries, the Law Library of Congress and the Peace Palace Library based in The Hague, Netherlands, have agreed to form an information-sharing relationship to exchange information and better serve library users. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed today in a ceremony at […]

From The Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT): If you’re seeking information about activities at Weber County’s libraries, don’t go to the system’s website. The regular site, www.weberpl.lib.ut.us, has been down since June due to a “rogue code” that infected the library’s content management system, Drupal, according to Lynnda Wangsgard, executive director of the system. Now, the main page only contains contact […]

From Edison Research and NPR: With smart speaker ownership over 43M in the U.S. (18+), smartspeakers have quickly expanded beyond first adopters. New smart speaker owners are emerging as a distinct audience in terms of user profile and behavior according to new research from The Smart Audio Report, which for the first time offers a […]

From Bleeping Computer: The vast majority of Venmo transactions are being logged in a public API accessible to anyone, according to the recent investigation of a privacy advocate. The reason this happens is because the Venmo app’s default settings are set to “Public” for all users. Unless users specifically change this value, all the transactions […]

Note: The Virtual Card Catalog proof of concept was introduced on January 24, 2018. From the U.S. Copyright Office: Today, the U.S. Copyright Office implemented a series of technical upgrades to enhance searching and results tracking capabilities when using the proof of concept of the Virtual Card Catalog (VCC). In this upgraded version, users now: […]

1. Arizona State University Professor Dr. Kyle Longley Appointed New Director of Johnson Presidential Library (via NARA) 2. Here’s LCA’s comments on the @CopyrightOffice NPRM on mandatory deposit of electronic-only books: https://t.co/fh8wc1Mgce — ARL Public Policy (@ARLpolicy) July 16, 2018 3. Duke University Libraries Received Almost $8 Million From 2500 Donors During FY2018 (Duke U. Library News) 4. Library […]

From the Committee on House Administration: The Legislative Data and Transparency Conference 2018 (#LDTC18), hosted by the Committee on House Administration, took place on Thursday, July 12, 2018, in the Capitol Visitor Center’s Congressional Auditorium. The #LDTC18 brings individuals from Legislative Branch agencies together with data users and transparency advocates to foster a conversation about the […]

From the Australian Research Council:  Associate Professor Nick Thieberger is a linguistics academic and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, based at The University of Melbourne, who is digitising and archiving the records of our most at-risk indigenous languages. Professor Thieberger and his team are building and populating the databases that hold these records, […]

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: A federal appeals court today ruled that industry groups cannot control publication of binding laws and standards. This decision protects the work of Public.Resource.org (PRO), a nonprofit organization that works to improve access to government documents. PRO is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the law firm of Fenwick […]

The following article was published on July 17, 2018 by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States Authors Rachel Ann Miles Kansas State University Stacy Konkiel Altmetric Sarah Sutton Emporia State University  Source […]