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Suzanne Wones is the New University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From UC Berkeley News: UC Berkeley has chosen a new University Librarian, Suzanne L. Wones, who is associate university librarian for discovery and access at Harvard Library. Wones, with 20 years’ experience as a leader in academic libraries, will start her new post July 1, following University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason’s retirement. In a recent interview with Berkeley News, […]
Research Tools: “Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases”
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Profiles
|From Northwestern University: When Northwestern University’s Leigh Bienen launched Homicide in Chicago,1870-1930 in 2004, the website crashed the School of Communication’s servers the first weekend it went live. The site had more than 70,000 visitors in its first few days, following coverage in the Chicago Sun-Times. The interactive site now has logged more than 1.5 million visitors over the […]
From The NY Times: For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly half a million copyrights, the ownership rights for creative works, based on a two-centuries-old law. In recent months, however, the office has suddenly found itself in […]
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress announced today that it has launched the COVID-19 Archive Activation website, in collaboration with StoryCorps, to encourage all Americans to share their COVID-19 stories, or interview others about their pandemic experiences. Stories submitted through the Archive Activation website will be deposited into the collections of the American […]
“Libraries are That Safe Place for Discussion of Ideas”: An Interview with Dr. Carla Hayden Librarian of Congress
Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|The interview with Dr. Hayden appears in the Winter 2024 (Vol. XL, No. 2 ) issue of Issues in Science and Technology. From the Description: Carla Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to lead the Library of Congress. In addition to preserving millions of books, newspapers, films, photographs, audio recordings, maps, […]
Journal Article: “Emerging Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Support of Reproducible Research”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, News
|The article linked below was published today by LIBER Quarterly. Title Emerging Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Support of Reproducible Research Authors Birgit Schmidt University of Goettingen, State and University Library Andrea Chiarelli Research Consulting Lucia Loffreda Research Consulting Jeroen Sondervan Utrecht University, Utrecht; Dutch Research Council (NWO) Source LIBER Quarterly:The Journal of the […]
HistoryMakers Oral History Archive Seeks to Protect Stories of Black Lived Experience: Interview with Julieanna Richardson, Founder of HistoryMakers; How Librarian Spies Helped Win World War II; & More
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|Archives Citizen Archivist Year in Review (via NARA) HistoryMakers Oral History Archive Seeks to Protect Stories of Black Lived Experience: Interview with Julieanna Richardson, Founder of HistoryMakers (via Hear & Now/WBUR) Librarians How Librarian Spies Helped Win World War II (via VOA News)
Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments; La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Launches; & More Items
Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Profiles, Video Recordings
|AI/GPT Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Discusses the Promise and Potential Perils of AI (via Morning Edition/NPR) Digital Libraries Learn About: La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Research Tools Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments (via FLP) ||| Direct to ProPublica’s New “Supreme Connections” App
New Partnership: Urban Libraries Council and University at Albany’s Center for Technology in Government to Examine Libraries’ Role in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|Here’s the full text of today’s announcement from the Urban Libraries Council (ULC): The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) and the University at Albany’s Center for Technology in Government (CTG UAlbany) are partnering to examine how libraries can empower communities to better understand Artificial Intelligence and ensure its ethical design and application. This three-year research project, funded through a […]
Journal Article: “Swimming Upstream in the Academic Library: Exploring Faculty Needs for Library Streaming Media Collections”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|The article linked below was recently published by Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP). Title Swimming Upstream in the Academic Library: Exploring Faculty Needs for Library Streaming Media Collections Authors Elsa Loftis Portland State University Carly Lamphere Reed College Source Evidence Based Library And Information Practice (EBLIP) Vol. 18 No. 4 (2023) DOI: 10.18438/eblip30317 […]