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Research Article (Preprint): “Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and Researchers”
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The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and Researchers Authors Guangyuan Sun National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tanja FriedrichGerman Aerospace Center, Scientific Information, Cologne, Germany Kathleen Gregory University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; School of […]
New Report From Ithaka S+R: “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences” 
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From a Introductory Blog Post by Dylan Ruediger and Danielle Miriam Cooper: Today, Ithaka S+R releases findings from one of the largest in-depth studies of teaching practices across social science disciplines, conducted in partnership with librarians from 20 colleges and universities in the United States. Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences is […]
Report: “States Return Indigenous Oral Histories to Tribal Control”
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From Stateline/Pew: There are more than 600 oral history recordings housed where Lina Ortega is an associate curator for the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Ortega speaks limited Seminole, one of the languages heard on the recordings. But while reviewing an ordinary tribal government meeting from 1969, she kept hearing a name […]
Ithaka S+R Introduces a “New Project to Expand Public, State, Law, Prison, and Academic Library Collaboration”
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From an Ithaka S+R Post by Kurtis Tanaka: As Ithaka S+R’s research has well documented, people in prison have profound information needs and suffer from an equally profound lack of resources to meet those needs. Over the past several years, public, state, academic, and law libraries have increasingly sought to serve people in prison through a […]
Reimagining the Internet Podcast: A Conversation with Librarian and the New Owner of Metafilter, Jessamyn West
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Links to the audio and text transcripts to Ethan Zuckerman’s conversation (Parts 1 & 2) with Jessamyn West are found below. The Reimagining the Internet podcast is a production of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Part 1 Why Does a Librarian Own a Social Media Site That’s Been Around […]
From Boston: David Leonard doesn’t fit the stereotype of the typical library guy: In the six years since taking the helm of the BPL, the former IT consultant has never shushed anyone, and he recently did away with fines for late books. In fact, to hear Leonard tell it, he never imagined he’d even work […]
Public Library Association (PLA) Releases Strategic Plan 2022—2026
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From a PLA/ALA Announcement: The Public Library Association (PLA) Strategic Plan 2022—2026 is now available on the PLA website, following its unanimous approval by the PLA Board of Directors in June 2022. Informed by member surveys, member and partner interviews, and PLA leadership and staff engagements, the PLA strategic plan centers Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social […]
A Conversation With CNI’s Cliff Lynch (A New Episode of the CNI Interviews Podcast)
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From EDUCAUSE: In this conversation [with Gerry Bayne from EDUCAUSE], Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Cliff Lynch, talks about issues concerning scholarly communication, digital information technology, and higher education technology. Direct to Text Transcript of Interview See Also: CNI Interviews Podcast Archive
Delta Think: “OSTP Memo – Modeling Market Impact”; Introducing the Congress.gov API; and More News Headlines
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Boston University: Will New White House Open Access Rules Impact Researchers (Interview with Interim University Librarian Mark Nelson) Delta Think: OSTP Memo – Modeling Market Impact Introducing the Congress.gov API (via In Custodia Legis/LLOC) Library of Congress Announces Winners of 2022 Literacy Awards on International Literacy Day National Library of Medicine Collaborates with Publishers to […]
View Online: Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, Interviewed on C-SPAN
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Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, was interviewed on C-SPAN during coverage of the 2022 National Book Festival on September 3, 2022. You can watch the complete interview via the C-SPAN Video Library. See Also: Watch More Interviews From the National Book Festival
