June 7, 2023 by Gary Price
From CBS News (via YouTube): Poet and author Amanda Gorman joins “CBS Mornings” for her first interview since her poem and book, “The Hill We Climb,” was restricted by a Florida elementary school. She shares her initial reaction to the ban, why she believes restricting books keeps history from children and how she got involved […]
May 30, 2023 by Gary Price
The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research. Title Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project Authors Chela Scott Weber Senior Program Officer Itza A. Carbajal Associate Researcher Lesley A. Langa Associate Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway Executive Director, Research Brooke Doyle Senior Project Coordinator […]
May 4, 2023 by Gary Price
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Joan Lippincott is Associate Executive Director Emerita at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). In this interview, she discusses the Directions in Digital Scholarships initiative, which explores the current and future state of digital scholarship, data-intensive research, and computational research. Text Transcript
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May 2, 2023 by Gary Price
From Jisc: For the first time, UKRI-funded report brings together views of 15 major stakeholders from across the UK research community. To gain an unprecedented insight into the UK’s academic research infrastructure assets, Jisc has collected the views of leading bodies from across the sector. The new report, Optimising the UK’s university research infrastructure assets, […]
May 2, 2023 by Gary Price
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Sayeed Choudhury is Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. In this conversation, Choudhury discusses his new role—created to raise awareness of and stimulate collaboration among open-source projects across the university—and the impact of this new office on his […]
May 1, 2023 by Gary Price
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship at UC Davis, discusses her career and her efforts to encourage women to get involved in technology. Smith also talks about the challenges of building a technologically sophisticated, flexible, and equitable library and her […]
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April 20, 2023 by Gary Price
From a ScholCommLab Blog Post: In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear how widespread data reuse and citation practices are within academic disciplines, and why scientists cite—or do not cite—data in their research work. In a recent preprint from the Meaningful Data Counts project, Kathleen Gregory (postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna […]
April 19, 2023 by Gary Price
From GBH Radio: For David Leonard, president of the Boston Public Library, it’s all about addition. When you combine desirable things, like affordable housing and well-maintained public libraries, the sum is better than its parts. Leonard appeared on Boston Public Radio on Tuesday to discuss a new initiative to add affordable housing in several library branches across […]
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April 18, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Post on The Keyword (Google): The goal of Project Oasis is to bring greater visibility to digital media organisations in Europe. The project is a study of the sustainability of independent, digital native news organisations in more than 40 European countries. An international team of researchers conducted interviews with key media leaders in […]
April 15, 2023 by Gary Price
From KCUR Radio On Wednesday, Cindy Hohl became the first person from a Kansas City-area public library to be elected president of the American Library Association. “I am very excited. This is a great opportunity for Kansas City and for our library to be seen as the leaders, not only in librarianship, but in the information field,” said […]