MORE 'AWARDS' POSTS
Rutgers University: Librarians Create Digital Portal of International Posters That Trace the History of Women’s Activism
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Resources
|From a Rutgers U. News Release: What was once a loose collection of 300 rolled-up and yellowing posters in an office of Rutgers’ Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) is now an award-winning digital portal offering insight into decades of women’s activism throughout the world. The vibrantly colored posters, newly available through RUCore, a Rutgers-based […]
Digitization Projects: Smithsonian Institution Archives Receives a Smithsonian Women’s Committee Grant to Support the Digitization of Scientific Field Books
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From the News Release (PDF) The Smithsonian Institution Archives received a grant of $22,000 from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee (SWC). The award will fund two graduate paper conservation interns and two digitization interns who will work during summer 2012 to conserve and digitize original 19th and early 20th century scientific field expedition notebooks located at […]
From a SAGE News Release: SAGE celebrates Index on Censorship’s 40th anniversary with free access to the magazine’s historic archive for 40 days, from 26 March until 4 May. After that date, the archive from 1972-2010 will remain free for the rest of the year. Index’s award-winning magazine was the first to publish much of […]
The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Gains Co-Sponsors, Hearing Scheduled For Next Week
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|Live Today Hearing Information (via House.gov) Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Live Web Stream Be Available Hearing Begins at 9:30 A.M Direct to Live Video Stream or Live Video Stream #2 Opening Statements S&O Subcommittee Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) Witnesses Mr. H. Frederick Dylla, Executive Director and Chief Executive […]
From The Los Angeles Times: The Getty Research Institute landed a huge (literally) prize last year when it bought the Harald Szeemann Archive and Library — one of the world’s leading private collections of books, pictures and documents concerning modern and contemporary art. But with the trove compiled by Szeemann, a Swiss museum director and […]
Denver Public Library Launches New Site to Digitize Neighborhood Histories
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Resources
|From The Denver Post: The Denver Public Library is set to unveil a social networking website on March 20, which will allow users to upload their own photos and recollections of Colorado’s history. It lets residents mix their own materials with nearly 900,000 items in the library’s digital archives, establishing online communities around a wide […]
G. Sayeed Choudhury Named Recipient of 2012 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library Technology
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation
|From an OCLC Announcement: The award is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, or the processes by which information and data is manipulated and managed. OCLC and the […]
From The Toronto Star: “The Canadian Independent Music Association is seeking changes that would create new liability risks for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, video sites, and many other websites featuring third party contributions. It is also calling for a new iPod tax, an extension in the term of copyright, a removal of […]
Direct from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. 84th Academy Awards Fact Sheet (4 pages; PDF) Examples of What You’ll Find: Number of countries submitting foreign language films 63 Number of voting members 5,783 Number of Oscar statuettes created for 84th Academy Awards 50 Number of Oscar statuettes given out at the 83rd […]
JHU's Winston Tabb is the Winner of ALA's 2012 Patterson Copyright Award Winner
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Jobs, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|via ALA’s District Dispatch: Winston Tabb, Dean of Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University is the 2012 recipient of the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award: In Support of Users’ Rights. Mr. Tabb was appointed to the National Board of the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) by President Obama in […]