From the South Dakota State Library: As the South Dakota State Historical Society celebrates its 120th year, the South Dakota State Library has digitized all 41 volumes of the South Dakota Historical Collections. From 1902 to 1982, this series was published biennially by the Department of History (now the South Dakota State Historical Society) as […]
South Dakota State Library Digitizes 41 Volumes of South Dakota Historical Collections
Reports in the News: American Lung Association Releases 22nd Annual “State of the Air” Report
From the American Lung Association: A new report from the American Lung Association finds more than 4 in 10 people (135 million) in the U.S. live with polluted air, placing their health and lives at risk. The 22nd annual “State of the Air” report shows that people of color were 61% more likely to live […]
Roundup (April 22, 2021)
American Chemical Society (ACS) and Syracuse University Sign Transformative ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement Wiley, Cochrane, OhioLINK Pilot Agreement Makes Cochrane Library Health Evidence Available to Ohio Citizens Informa (Parent of Taylor & Francis) Releases 2020 Company Results Outlook: Brill Sees Continuation of 2020 Trends in Q1 RELX (Parent of Elsevier) Posts Updated Business Outlook
Statements From Libraries and Library-Related Organizations Regarding Chauvin Verdict
Last Update: April 26, 1 P.M New York Brooklyn Public Library New York Public Library Queens Public Library Texas University of Houston Libraries Statement on the Conviction for the Murder of George Floyd
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and East View Release Open Access Imperial Russian Newspapers
From a CRL Announcement: CRL and East View Information Services have opened the first release of content for Imperial Russian Newspapers, the fourth Open Access collection of titles digitized under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance. This collection adds to the growing body of Open Access material available in the Global Press Archive […]
Report: “Get Ready for the Next Front in the Net Neutrality Fight”
From IEEE Spectrum: You’re about to hear a lot about network neutrality again, now that the Biden administration is in the White House. Last time, the issue was ensuring that Internet service providers (ISPs) wouldn’t discriminate against different sources of legal traffic on their network. This time around, you should expect the debate to be […]
Video Recording From ARL/CARL: “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use/Fair Dealing For OER: Webinar and Workshop”
The ARL/CARL Webinar and Workshop: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use/Fair Dealing took place on April 19, 2021. A video recording is embedded below. Description Fair use and fair dealing are the rights to use copyrighted content without asking the rightsholder for permission. This statutory safeguard is key to a balanced copyright regime, allowing […]
Roundup (April 20, 2021)
Kanopy Adds 60 New, Exclusive Films from The Criterion Collection Aiming For Truth, Fairness, and Equity In Your Company’s Use Of AI (via Federal Trade Commission) Firefox 88 Patches Bugs And Kills Off a Sneaky Javascript Tracking Trick (via Naked Security) Penn State University Press and De Gruyter Enter Publishing Partnership to Make 1,000 Ebook […]
“Open Knowledge and Social Justice: An Interview With SPARC’s Heather Joseph”
From an Information Today Interview with Heather Joseph by Dave Shumaker: Here’s one exchange from the conversation. Dave Shumaker: It’s interesting that so much of your work has been identified with open access, but your [Miles Conrad Award] lecture wasn’t really about access. You made a point of that, and you used the phrase “open […]
A Report From the UK: “Game Jams: A Novel Approach to Novels That Shaped Our World!”
From a British Library “Digital Scholarship” Blog Post by Stella Wisdom: In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections to life in a completely new way. I’ve ran a few at the British Library and I’m always keen to share what I’ve learned with […]





