August 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has published the latest report on the State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAA) Survey, providing findings on the state of SLAAs through FY 2022. Conducted since 1994, this survey highlights trends in financial health, workforce, and services provided by SLAAs […]
July 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau: A toolkit for public librarians can help them use data to communicate the value of their services and justify their funding needs. The Data Storytelling for Librarians Toolkit helps librarians present data in story form using narrative strategies. It was developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences professors. […]
June 26, 2024 by Gary Price
From the International Monetary Fund (IMF): Our research has already shown how AI is poised to reshape the global economy. It could endanger 33 percent of jobs in advanced economies, 24 percent in emerging economies, and 18 percent in low-income countries. But, on the brighter side, it also brings enormous potential to enhance the productivity of existing […]
January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Make Data Count Post: DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and […]
January 29, 2024 by Gary Price
From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched a new State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool on IMLS.gov.The SLAA Survey Comparison Tool is an online dashboard that allows users to select and compare data from up to 3 states collected from the biennial SLAA Survey in a visually accessible […]
December 4, 2023 by Gary Price
Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to Support Technical Services Work in Academic Libraries Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools A […]
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November 20, 2023 by Gary Price
British Library British Library Confirms Ransomware Attack Caused Outages (via Dark Reading) CHORUS Report/Resources From CHORUS Forum: Supporting Accessibility on October 242023 Open Access First Annual STM OA Progress Report Released (via STM Association) ||| See Also: STM OA Dashboard Science Inside DARPA’s Aearch For an “Autonomous Scientist” to Support its Researchers (via NextGov)
November 16, 2023 by Gary Price
From a SPARC Blog Post: In November, the US Repository Network (USRN) will launch a pilot project aimed at improving the discoverability of articles in repositories. This pilot project involves the use of services from CORE, a not-for-profit aggregator based at Open University in the UK, to evaluate and improve local repository practices. Additional technical […]
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August 18, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Plan S Announcement: We are pleased to introduce the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD), an openly available data analytics tool designed for academic libraries and their consortia. Developed at the State and University Library Göttingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), HOAD combines open data from Crossref, OpenAlex, and the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool. By doing so, the […]
June 13, 2023 by Gary Price
From Association of College and Research Libraries/ALA: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces that results from the 2022 Academic Library Trends and Statistics survey are now available. This is the largest survey of academic libraries in the country, providing one of the most comprehensive portraits of the impact of academic libraries across […]