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Now Available: “New Tool to Explore Thousands of FAA Drone and Unidentified Aircraft Incident Reports”
| Data Files, Maps, News, Reports
From The Drive: We are excited to announce the launch of our new interactive tool that maps and makes searchable thousands of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and unidentified aircraft incident reports. The vast dataset is drawn from information compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration. Some of the reports are highly unusual, going far beyond typical […]
Library Publishing Coalition Releases Library Publishing Directory Research Data Set & Posts Call for Entries For 2022 Library Publishing Directory and IFLA Global Library Publishing Map
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Publishing
From the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC): Since 2014, the Library Publishing Directory has served as a yearly snapshot of the publishing endeavors of academic and research libraries. While the original intent of the project was to raise the profile of library publishing organizations and to underline the value of this work, over the course of […]
From Troy University (Troy, Alabama): In late June 1919, a young Army lieutenant from Camden, Alabama witnessed the signing of the agreement that ended World War I, an agreement he had helped draft as a member of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace. When he eventually made it back to the United States – […]
Reference: “Which States Have Dedicated Broadband Offices, Task Forces, Agencies, or Funds?”
| Data Files, Funding, Maps, News
From the Pew Charitable Trusts: States differ in how they manage broadband deployment and which agencies or offices they task with identifying challenges, charting goals, and encouraging investment. Some states have a centralized office responsible for managing or coordinating broadband efforts. In others, multiple agencies have jurisdiction over broadband. More than half of states have […]
Data Tools: “How Many Pending Deportation Cases are There in Your State? TRAC’s Updated Mapping Tool Has the Answer”
| Data Files, Maps, News
From the Transactional Records Clearinghouse/Syracuse University: According to Immigration Court data obtained by TRAC, the total immigration court backlog is currently 1,337,372 pending cases. However, those cases are not distributed evenly across the country and representation rates — one of the most important factors in case outcomes — varies widely. For the first time since […]
Major Upgrades Made to Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME)
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From a Council on Library and Information Resources Announcement: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Qatar National Library, and Stanford University Libraries today [June 21] announced several major improvements to the (DLME). The public, open DLME platform, released in July 2020, aggregates digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and […]
From The Florida Museum/University of Florida: The National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative program based at the Florida Museum of Natural History at […]
News Roundup (June 17, 2021)
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Ex Libris, Funding, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Roundup
ACRL Joins “Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History” (via ACRL) ACS Transformative ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement Expands Open Access in Spain (via ACS) arXiv Adds Interactive Citation Maps Powered by Litmaps (via arXiv Blog) OCLC to Provide New National Cataloging Platform For More Than 1,300 Libraries in Japan […]
Apple Maps Upgrade Brings More Detailed Maps, Transit Features, AR View and More (via TechCrunch) #KeepItOn Update: Who is Shutting Down the Internet in 2021 (via AccessNow) Scoop: White House Hires Broadband Expert (via Axios)
Milestones: A British Library, Qatar Foundation, and Qatar National Library Partnership Make Two Millionth Image Freely Available Online
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From The British Library: Ten years ago the British Library and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development started exploring possible areas of collaboration. For some time the British Library had been working on an international engagement strategy to make our collections more accessible in partnership with other organisations. Fast forward to 2021, […]
