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Quick Hits: EBSCO Information Services Launches FinancialFit; Springer Nature Acquires Innovative Writing Aid, TooWrite; & More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Podcasts, Springer Nature
|EBSCO Information Services Launches FinancialFit Helper Systems Launches kOS 1.0 Preview (via HS) Library Futures Releases Policy Paper: Digital Ownership for Libraries and the Public New Frog Species Named After Fantasy Author J.R.R. Tolkien (via Pensoft) Newly Processed Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress (via LC) Springer Nature Acquires Innovative Writing Aid, TooWrite ||| […]
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Publishes New Recommended Practice for Video and Audio Metadata
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|From a National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Announcement (Full Text): The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced publication of its new Video and Audio Metadata Recommended Practice (NISO RP-41-2023), which establishes metadata guidelines for video and audio assets. Audio and especially video assets are growing in volume, popularity, and use in scholarly, scientific, and professional […]
From The Hollywood Reporter: LeVar Burton is making a return to children’s entertainment with Sound Detectives, a podcast debuting this spring from SiriusXM’s Stitcher. Created by Burton in collaboration with Julia Smith and Joanna Sokolowski, Sound Detectives begins with the premise that sounds are starting to go missing in the world, and the culprit appears to be the so-called Sound Swindler. To solve […]
From the Open Science Talk Podcast: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) was founded by Lars Bjørnshauge in 2003; the current managing director is Joanna Ball. A cornerstone in the global Open Science landscape, DOAJ currently lists more than 18,000 peer-reviewed, strictly open access journals (Gold or Diamond). Dominic Mitchell, who has worked for […]
From the University of Cambridge Library: Darwin’s tiny, priceless Tree of Life sketch is arguably the most iconic drawing in the history of science. “The Tree of Life notebooks are Darwin at his most radical,” says Professor Jim Secord, a world expert on the subject. “The theory of natural selection and evolution is the foundation […]
NY Times Podcast Interview: “A Small-Town Librarian Spoke Against Censorship. Then the Dark Money Came for Her. Now She’s Fighting Back.”
Interviews, Libraries, News, Podcasts, Profiles, Public Libraries
|From NY Times “First Person”: Amanda Jones is a librarian. This summer, worried that her town might try to ban books, she spoke up at a public library board meeting about the importance of a diverse collection and preserving young people’s access to books with sexual health content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. A few days later, […]
From Syracuse University Libraries: Sound Beat: Access Audio, a storytelling initiative of the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries, is launching a 12-part podcast series titled, “The Land You’re On: Acknowledging the Haudenosaunee.” The first three episodes will be released on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at a launch party at Bird Library in the Peter […]
Kicking Off Publishing Ethics Week! Community Resources; New Initiative to Publicize and Summarize Research on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; and More News Headlines
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|Author Interview: Nine Best Practices for Software Repositories and Registries (PeerJ) Disinformation is a Growing Crisis. Governments, Business and Individuals Can Help Stem the Tide (via World Economic Forum) Introducing Reservoir, the Module Behind ReShare’s Shared Inventory (via Project ReShare) Kicking Off Publishing Ethics Week! Community Resources New Initiative to Publicize and Summarize Research on […]
From the University of Victoria, Canada: Canada’s genocide is getting harder to deny. So too is the growing recognition that human rights and the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples offer solutions to ending the endemic violence in Canada. From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and […]
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 […]