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Springer Nature Launches New Book Series That Addresses Major Research Pain Points
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|From Springer Nature: Springer Nature and RWTH Aachen University’s Cluster of Excellence Internet of Production have created a new publishing format called Crosstracts to address two research challenges. It can often take a long time for research results to be published and so are not getting back to the lecture hall fast enough. Moreover, opportunities […]
ALA Announces Winners of 2022 Youth Media Awards (Complete List)
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|Note: The list of winners is available as a PDF. Note: A video recording of the announcement event is available (also embedded below). From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and […]
From the JTA Article: There are two sketches of Philipp Manes, a leading early-20th-century German-Jewish businessman, in the notebooks that he kept with him during his two-year imprisonment at the Theresienstadt transit camp. Both are drawn shortly before Manes was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944, and could not be more different. One portrait shows […]
Dr. Patricia Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), to Receive NISO’s Miles Conrad Award for 2022
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|From the National Information Standards Organization (NISO): The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced that Dr. Patricia Brennan, Director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) will be the recipient of the 2022 Miles Conrad Award, a lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community. Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, assumed […]
2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture: Heather Joseph
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|The following article was recently shared (pre-press) by Information Services & Use. Title 2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture: Heather Joseph Author Heather Joseph SPARC Source Information Services & Use (2021) Abstract This paper is based upon the 2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture that was given by Heather Joseph at the second annual NISO Plus conference […]
News from the UK: Library and Higher Education Organizations Issue “Joint Statement on Access to E-Book and E-Textbook Content”
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|Note: The Joint Statement is Also Available From Others Including Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and SCONUL From a Full Text of Joint Statement (via JISC): Together with other representatives and sector bodies, Jisc has pledged to help students and teachers in UK higher and further education to gain equitable and sustainable access to e-books, e-textbooks […]
From the University of Buffalo: A multidisciplinary research team led by the University at Buffalo has been awarded $750,000 to develop digital literacy tools to curb the deleterious effects of online disinformation. The grant is from the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, a program launched in 2019 that builds upon basic research and discovery to […]
From the ebooks@cambridge Blog: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sudden switch to online learning, and an unprecedented need to expand remote and online access to electronic resources. The Cambridge College Libraries Forum (CCLF) carried out a student survey between 31st May and 16th July 2021 to gather data on attitudes towards ebooks. Students were […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $28.4 Million for 239 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|A full list of the 239 grants by geographic location is available here. From NE The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $28.4 million in grants for 239 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary about the 1873 Colfax Massacre, the bloodiest instance of racial violence during Reconstruction, and the […]
University of Pennsylvania: “Penn Libraries is Part of a Multi-Institution-Funded Project to Digitize Materials from Early Medical Education”
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|From Penn Today: The script in black ink on cream cotton rag paper is filled with flourishes on the title page of the dissertation by University of Pennsylvania medical student Americus Vesuvius Payne, dated March 30, 1820. In the corner, in pencil, is the address, No. 201 Walnut. Photographed at the Penn Libraries earlier this […]