June 2, 2023 by Gary Price
From the Yale Library: LUX: Collection Discovery—a new cross-collection search tool—provides users worldwide with online access to more than 17 million items within Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives. “The LUX project is an incredible way to bring together the diverse collections across the cultural heritage units at Yale,” said Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates […]
June 2, 2023 by Gary Price
A small selection of new or recently updated reports from the Congressional Research Service. Is That Climate Change? The Science of Extreme Event Attribution Juneteenth: Fact Sheet Montana’s TikTok Ban and Pending Legal Actions 2023 Hurricane Outlooks and 2022 Hurricane Season Review Wildfire Statistics Direct to All Reports From CRS
June 1, 2023 by Gary Price
COAR Community Consultation on Managing Non-English And Multilingual Content In Repositories (via COAR) Coordinating Research Data Services: Key Barriers and Questions (via Ithaka S+R) The DAISY Consortium Publishes 2022 Annual Report
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May 31, 2023 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of an AAP StatShot Report Posted Today: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released the StatShot Annual report covering the calendar year 2022, estimating that the U.S. book publishing industry generated $28.10 billion industry-wide during the year, a decline of 2.6% as compared to 2021. In spite of the slight […]
May 31, 2023 by Gary Price
FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy Law by Keeping Kids’ Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents’ Deletion Requests (via FTC) Good Data Practices: Removing Barriers to Data Reuse with CC0 Licensing (via Dryad) U.S. Census Bureau Unveils Unique, Interactive Building Permit Tool (via U.S. Census) Webinar Recap: Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials […]
May 30, 2023 by Gary Price
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The Moving Image and Sound Branch is pleased to announce that the sound recordings of RG 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States have been fully digitized and are available for listening and download through the National Archives Catalog. The audio recordings in Record Group 267 […]
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May 30, 2023 by Gary Price
Constellate Makes It Easier For Faculty to Teach Text Analysis and Computational Literacy (via ITHAKA) EveryLibrary Institute Publishes a New Issue of “The Political Librarian” (Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2023) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Releases Version 2 of the National Broadband Map (via NTIA) FOLIO Launches Orchid Release (via FOLIO)
May 24, 2023 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of a NARA Announcement: Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall has awarded 47 grants totaling $6,510,701 for projects in 27 states and the District of Columbia to improve public access to historical records. The National Archives grants program is carried out through the National Historical Publications and Records […]
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May 24, 2023 by Gary Price
The research article (preprint) below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Wikipedia And Open Access Authors Puyu Yang The University of Amsterdam Ahad Shoaib École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) University of Waterloo Robert West École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Giovanni Colavizza The University of Amsterdam Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.13945 Abstract Wikipedia is […]
May 23, 2023 by Gary Price
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Comments on Increasing Public Access to Results of USDOT-Funded Transportation Research Illinois: Mayor Johnson Unveils Plans for Chicago Public Library Mural (via CBS Chicago) Coherent Digital Launches World’s Largest Collection of Municipal Reports Meta Fined a Record $1.3 Billion Over EU User Data Transfers to the U.S. (via CNBC) OpenAI […]