Information Industry News and Resources from Gary Price
From the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Jamaica: The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that the Reggae Films In The Park event launched preparations to establish the new digital Reggae Film Archive at the National Library of Jamaica as “a big step towards preserving Jamaica’s cultural […]
From a Blog Post by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States: This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Barack Obama Foundation agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the plan to digitize all of the unclassified textual Presidential records of the Obama administration. The Foundation will select the vendor, with NARA […]
From the National Diet Library: The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau (RLRB) of the National Diet Library publishes research papers on national policy issues in Japan. We are pleased to announce that selected articles from the RLRB’s publications are now available in English on our website. Publications in English The RLRB prepares research papers on […]
From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: No matter how cold your winter has been, it’s probably not as chilly as Mars. Check for yourself: Starting today, the public can get a daily weather report from NASA’s InSight lander. This public tool includes stats on temperature, wind and air pressure recorded by InSight. Sunday’s weather was typical […]
From Science Business: India’s annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government. “We have to take a clear position – the current situation is untenable and costly,” VijayRaghavan told Science|Business. VijayRaghavan was speaking after he tweeted that India would be signing […]
From The NY Times: California’s 23 million library card holders in the state may access NYTimes.com by visiting nytimes.com/register on a library computer, or on their own device while connected to the library’s Wi-Fi. Library card holders can access nytimes.com from anywhere through their library’s website.” Residents without a library card may visit their local branch to […]
From the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC), and through its European counterpart, Europe PMC. [Our emphasis] The NLM and Wellcome are pleased to […]
From Benetech: Libraries in Alabama, Massachusetts, and Florida join five other state libraries to offer Bookshare’s 690,000 accessible ebooks to expand reading opportunities. In December, 2015, New York Public Library expanded its services to offer Bookshare’s library of accessible ebooks to patrons who cannot read printed books due to a disability such as dyslexia, blindness, […]
From The Knight Foundation (Full Text): The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced that it would double its investment in strengthening journalism to $300 million over five years, with a focus on building the future of local news and information, which are essential for democracy to function. Knight called on individual and […]
The Music OCLC Users Group Annual Meeting and the Music Library Association Annual Meeting take place this week in St. Louis. The Music Division of the Library of Congress has prepared a review (14 pages; PDF) of FY 2018 of division highlights. The document is organized into the following sections: Collection Development Bibliographic Access User […]
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