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Library of Congress: 25 Eclectic Films Chosen for National Film Registry; 2022 Entries Include Iron Man, Hairspray, When Harry Met Sally, The Little Mermaid, and Carrie
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From LC: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, the newest selections include a vibrant diversity of American filmmakers, as […]
Columbia University Joins The Palace Project Platform and App
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From LYRASIS: The Palace Project, the nonprofit library-centered platform and e-reader app for digital content and services, announced today that the Columbia University Library has adopted its platform. The Palace Project is an easy-to-use platform for the management and delivery of ebooks, audiobooks, and other e-content and puts libraries at the center of their communities’ […]
The Software Preservation Network Publishes 2nd Edition of A Preservationist’s Guide to the DMCA Exemption For Software Preservation
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From SPN (via Email): The Software Preservation Network is proud to announce that the 2nd Edition of our Preservationist’s Guide to the DMCA Exemption for Software Preservation has been published! Prepared for SPN by Kendra Albert and Kee Young Lee of the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, the Guide lays out the key elements of the latest rule permitting […]
The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27): Outcomes and Opportunities for Libraries & More News Headlines
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Mapping Social Media Archiving Initiatives: State of the Art, Trends, and Future Perspective (via IIPC: International Internet Preservation Consortium) Stanford Libraries: Born-digital Collections Opened for Research in 2022 The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27): Outcomes and Opportunities for Libraries (via IFLA) Self-Organised Network: Does Mastodon Have What It Takes to Become the “Scholarly-Owned Social […]
Virginia Tech University: “University Libraries’ Carbon Footprint Research Leads to International Best Paper Prize”
| Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
From Virginia Tech University: The Best Paper Prize was awarded to Alex Kinnaman and Alan Munshower of University Libraries at iPRES 2022, the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation in Glasgow, Scotland. The jury members selected Kinnaman and Munshower’s paper, “Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech,” in part because the “topic of this […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier; 2022 Urban Libraries Council Annual Forum Recap; and More Headlines
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ALA Invites Applications for Fourth Annual Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces Pocket Burgundy Awards Price Change: Dryad Updates Fee For Authors (via Dryad News) Springer Nature Completes Acquisition of Research Square […]
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Opens its New Preservation Storage Facility
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From LAC: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) celebrated today the opening of its new state-of-the-art Preservation Storage Facility in Gatineau, Quebec. A plaque was unveiled and guests toured the site at the event, which was attended by, among others, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage; the Honourable Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury […]
Computational Publishing Pilot Project Introduces Partners and Communities
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From a COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) Blog Post: Our last post on Computational Book Publishing by Simon Bowie kicked off our documentation of this COPIM WP6 Experimental Publishing Pilot Project, which consists of a collaboration between COPIM, the Open Science Lab at the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hanover (working with Simon Worthington as […]
Miami-Dade Public Library’s Bookmobiles Makes Reading, Technology Accessible; The New York Times and New York Public Library Release 2022 Best Illustrated Children’s Books; and More
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Association of Research Libraries: ARL Board of Directors 2023 Elected by ARL Membership & University of North Texas to Become 128th Member of ARL Miami-Dade Public Library’s Bookmobiles Makes Reading, Technology Accessible (via CBS Miami) San Francisco Voters Approve Renewal of the Library Preservation Fund (via SF.gov) The New York Times and New York Public […]
Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations (New White Paper From CLIR and Software Preservation Network)
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From a Joint News Release (via CLIR) A new white paper from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Software Preservation Network (SPN) presents findings from a survey- and interview-based study of software preservation service providers, including archivists, librarians, preservation specialists, technologists, and other information professionals. “The need for greater attention to […]
