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Adobe Quietly Taps User Content to Train its ML Tools A New Tool Helps Map Out Where to Develop Clean Energy Infrastructure (via ANL) Mellon Awards CLIR $4 Million to Extend Recordings at Risk Grant Program National Museum of American History Will Preserve Alexander Graham Bell’s Experimental Sound Recordings (via Smithsonian) UK Distributed Print Book […]
Boston Public Library Wraps Up 2022; WebJunction Wrap-Up; and More Headlines
Awards, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Angel Peterson Receives the 2022 Library Publishing Coalition Award for Exemplary Service (via LPC) Boston Public Library Wraps Up 2022 (via BPL) Book Disasters: Two Centuries of Rare Book Loss (via FineBooks) How Much Do APCs Cost French Research Institutions? (via Ministere De L’enseignement Superieur Et De La Recherche) IMLS Now Accepting Applications For Native […]
From a Blog Post (about 8400 words) by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain: On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final […]
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 […]
A New Library Impact Research Report From ARL: “A Toolkit for Demonstrating and Measuring Impact of Primary Sources in Teaching and Learning”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the Assoc. of Research Libraries: As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System addressed how special collections support teaching, learning, and research. This project developed a toolkit that allows measurement of impact of engagement with primary sources. The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) initially worked with University of […]
Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News
|Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ICYMI: ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall’s Literarian Award Acceptance Speech Library Associations Share Community Response to White House Memorandum on Public-Access to Research (via ARL)
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
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Springer Nature
|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 […]
Briefing Paper on EOSC: Federating Research Infrastructures in Europe for Fair Access to Data (via Science Europe) Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble to Receive NISO’s 2023 Miles Conrad Award (via NISO: National Information Standards Organization) Let’s Encrypt Issues 3 Billion HTTPS Certificates (via TechCrunch) NASA Doubles Down on Gaming (via NextGov) White House Considering Pilot Program […]
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Opens its New Preservation Storage Facility
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|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 […]
NARA to Award $1.9 Million for Historical Records Projects
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|From the National Archives and Records Administration: Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall approved 31 proposals totaling $1,904,539 in National Archives awards for projects in 25 states and the District of Columbia, pending appropriations of a final budget for FY 2023. The National Archives grants program is carried out with the advice […]