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ACLU: “It’s 2022 and Two Books Are on Trial for ‘Obscenity'”
From the ACLU: …last month, a Virginia resident initiated obscenity proceedings against two acclaimed books: Gender Queer, a Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, an autobiographical graphic novel that depicts the author’s experience as a non-binary and asexual person; and A Court of Mist and Fury, by Sarah J. Maas, a fantasy novel. The obscenity proceedings come […]
U.S. Patent Research: USPTO Announces Patent Center to Fully Replace Legacy Public PAIR System This Summer
From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Beginning August 1, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Center system—available to the public since 2017—will fully replace the legacy Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR) tool for the electronic filing and management of patent applications. The Public PAIR tool, first launched in the early 2000s, […]
Roundup (June 29, 2022)
CORE: Our Commitment to The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure Elsevier’s Acquisition of Interfolio: Risks and Responses GPO to Discontinue Assigning Library of Congress Classification Numbers in Records for Hearings and Reports (via FDLP) New Board Members for CLOCKSS New Video: Introduction to the Open Book Collective (via COPIM) Now Available: Special Issue of IFLA […]
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Nat Geo Report: “The Great Hunt for the World’s First LGBTQ Archive”
From National Geographic: In the early 1990s, a Canadian student named Adam Smith opened a dumpster in the basement of his apartment building in Vancouver, Canada, and discovered a stack of old leather suitcases. In one of them was a plaster “death mask” cast from the face of a man with a thick mustache. In […]
2022 Google Scholar Metrics Released
From the Google Scholar Blog: Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of rec. This release covers articles published in 2017–2021 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2022. Scholar Metrics include journals from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines and […]
New Video Recording From Rare Book School: “Making and Reading Indigenous Archives”
The Rare Book School (U. of Virginia) video embedded below (a National Endowment for the Humanities-Global Book Histories Initiative Lecture by Kelly Wisecup) was recorded on June 15, 2022. From the Video Description: A National Endowment for the Humanities-Global Book Histories Initiative Lecture, delivered on 15 June 2022 by. Where and what are Indigenous archives? […]
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Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to Become a Public-Interest Non-Profit Organization
From a W3C Release: The World Wide Web Consortium is set to pursue 501(c)(3) non-profit status. The launch as a new legal entity in January 2023 preserves the core mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web by developing open standards with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community. “We designed the W3C […]
Julie Mosbo Ballestro Appointed University Librarian at Texas A&M University
Full Text of a Texas A&M University Libraries Announcement: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Julie Mosbo Ballestro as University Librarian and Assistant Provost of University Libraries at Texas A&M University, beginning July 1, 2022. The University Librarian is responsible for directing programs and personnel and leading a wide range of library services […]
New Report From EBLIDA: “First European Overview on E-Lending in Public Libraries”
From an EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations) Post: EBLIDA is laying the foundation for “sustainable copyright” in public libraries through the publication of the “First European overview on e-lending in public libraries”. Carried out by the EBLIDA EGIL (Expert Group on Information Law) Group, the overview is based on a questionnaire […]
New Funding: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Awarded $850,000 by Mellon Foundation to Support the Advancement of Racial Equity in American Archives
From a DPLA Announcement: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce an $850,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its effort to advance racial justice in American archives. This funding will enable DPLA to launch a digital equity project to develop community-based partners and increase partner capacity to lead this work. […]
