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The HathiTrust 2018 Member Meeting took place in Rosemont, IL on October 30, 2018. From the Report’s Overview Section: In October, more than 100 individuals from 89 institutions gathered outside Chicago for the annual HathiTrust Member Meeting. Attendees honored HathiTrust’s 10 years as an organization, reflected on the past year’s success in laying a meaningful […]

From LC: With a new look for 2019, this issue features the robust film collections of the Library of Congress and our efforts at preserving historical and contemporary cinema of all kinds for generations to come. Articles in this issue include: Happy Birthday, Film Registry Red Tape to The Rescue Reel Treasure Saving Film in […]

From the University of California, Santa Barbara Library: Original, handwritten manuscripts by an author who has been called a Nobel Prize contender and compared to Ernest Hemingway are now available for everyone around the world to see. Pai Hsien-yung, also known as Kenneth Pai, was a professor of Chinese literature at UCSB from 1965 to […]

From PC Magazine: Wikipedia, which turns 18 this week, is now viewed 6,000 times every second and more than 200,000 editors contribute every month. Before Wikipedia came along, information cataloging and dissemination used to be a matter of rigorous scholarship. Encyclopedia editors were revered and respected academics, mostly from privileged backgrounds, who focused on the “official canon” […]

From EPIC: EPIC joined 16 organizations in support of a “A Framework for Privacy Protection in the United States.” The consumer groups outlined a new approach to privacy protection: (1) enact baseline federal legislation; (2) enforce fair information practices; (3) establish a data protection agency; (4) ensure robust enforcement; (5) establish algorithmic governance; (6) prohibit […]

From an Introductory Blog Post by Rebecca Springer: The latest installment in Ithaka S+R’s series of Research Support Services projects investigates the research practices and support needs of civil and environmental engineering scholars. Today we are excited to publish the project’s capstone report. [Clip] This project was carried out with the generous support of the […]

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: The book-crammed Free Library of Philadelphia has found a way to stay relevant in the 21st century: ebooks. Last year, 28 percent of the Free Library’s total circulation of more than five million books came from ebooks and other digital content. But it hasn’t been nirvana for the library and its […]

From The Jerusalem Post: Now, following an amendment to the Copyright Law passed in the Knesset on January 1, the library and other cultural institutions in Israel will have much greater freedom to digitize and share their vast holdings without the fear of lawsuits. Those who lobbied for the amendment – including the National Library […]

1. Hack Brief: An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach (via Wired) 2. New Market Research Shows Amazon Exceeds 100 Million US Prime Members (via CIRP) 3. In the UK: Jisc Helps The Higher Education Sector Save Almost Half a Million, Thanks to Affordable Digital Archive Collections 4. Court Rejects FCC Request To […]