MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2012
New Online Collection From Library of Congress: Joe Smith’s Recorded Interviews with Music Icons
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From LC: In 1988, John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono gave a candid interview to record-label president Joe Smith about the Beatles’ split: “For John, it was a divorce. I think he was feeling very good about it, as if a big weight was off him.” Ono was among more than 200 celebrated performers, producers and […]
Here’s video of a recent presentation (November 16, 2012) by OCLC Program Officer and President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Jackie Dooley. Jackie’s presentation is titled: “The UK/Ireland Survey of Special Collections and Archives: Outcomes and Perspectives” and runs 38 minutes. See Also: Off The Record (SAA Blog) Jackie Dooley is the primary […]
From The Wichita Eagle: In recent years, the Wichita Public Library’s per-person spending on library materials has been less than half of the amount in Oklahoma City and Topeka and half of the amount spent in Lawrence. Less spending translates to fewer materials and longer wait times, sometimes several weeks longer. In those other cities’ […]
From Computerworld NZ: A Big Data exhibition is being staged in the refurbished National Library in Wellington. National Librarian Bill MacNaught says he’s keenly looking forward to the public’s reaction to the $65 million upgrade of the building. The most attention-grabbing enhancements are large flat-panel displays in the public areas and the introductory exhibition, entitled […]
From The Jordan Times: The National Library Department (NLD) is developing a strategy to reduce the software piracy rate to below 50 per cent over the next three years, according to NLD Director General Mohammad Abbadi. “The strategy, which will be implemented over a three-year period starting 2013, entails intensifying our raids on violators and […]
OpenGLAM Initiative Launches Resources Page With Documentation and Project Info, Links
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Reports
|New from OpenGLAM (an Open Knowledge Foundation initiative) is a collection of open resources for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). The resource page is available here and includes two categories of materials: Documentation– Reports, Papers, Books and Blogposts about Open Cultural Data Projects – Projects that use or provide Open Cultural Data Some of […]
Canadian Research Knowledge Network Terminating Its National License Agreement With ACS
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation
|The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is ending its national license agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS) as of the end of 2013, the network announced. After that, participating libraries can contract directly with ACS if they so choose. “The organization’s negotiating team was unable to reach a renewal agreement with ACS, owing to […]
From The Northern Echo: Former Durham University chancellor Bill Bryson said its library being renamed in his honour was the best, nicest and most fantastic thing to ever happen to him, as he unveiled an £11m expansion of the facility today (November 27). [Clip] The development is part of the University’s £60m Gateway project, which […]
From The Herald-Star (Steubenville, OH): Officials with the Brooke County Public Library have asked the county’s school board to consider teaming with them to make e-books available to local children. Mary Kay Wallace, the library’s director, and Ruth Lewis, president of the library board, asked the Brooke County Board of Education Monday to consider contributing […]
From The Keene Sentinel: The N.H. Downloadable Books Consortium’s new formula, which was recently approved by a majority of the librarians in the group, changes the fee from one based on population to one based on both population and usage levels. The downloadable books consortium was started in 2006 and provides users of the 190 […]