MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2013
Rankings: Top 10 Hot Articles in Library and Information Science, January 2013
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HathiTrust Posts 2012 Year in Review; Repository Contains 10.6 Million Volumes, 31% in Public Domain
|Direct to the full text report. A PDF version is also available. Here are a few highlights from the HathiTrust 2012 Year in Review. 2012 brought to a close the initial 5-year charter period that HathiTrust was granted by its founding institutions. A significant legal victory and affirmation of Fair Use in the case of […]
World Wide Web Creator Sees Open Access Future for Academic Publishing
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|From The Conversation: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who revolutionised the way we access information on the internet through the creation of the world wide web over 20 years ago, has been a vocal proponent for making data freely available while also protecting people’s privacy. [Clip] “I think that the open access activists will win out,” said […]
From a Jisc Announcement About 6,500 newly digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading’s diverse museum collections are now openly accessible to students, teachers and the public at large, thanks to funding from Jisc. The objects include rare Ancient Egyptian artefacts brought to life in twenty-first-century 3D; digital images of zoological […]
From a Financial Times Report (Free, Reg. Required): The Seattle-based company is pitching a range of advertising products to marketers, which appear on its own sites and Kindle ereaders, as well as a network of other sites across the internet. The company is personalising the ads using data collected on the shopping activities of its […]
Japan: “National Library Joins Digital Wave, Will Offer Books Online”
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|From The Asahi Shimbun: Japan’s largest library will begin offering online access to selected books on Feb. 1, starting with 13 works that include some of the country’s most famous epics and folk tales and a novel written by one of its most acclaimed novelists. The National Diet Library is trying out its new online […]
From the The Collegian (Student Paper at U. of Richmond): The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) a three-year, $750,000 grant to develop a digital atlas of American history. The DSL, which opened in 2007, is a digital humanities center that works to digitize historical research, thereby […]
Title Co-Teaching Relationships among Librarians and Other Information Professionals Authors Ann Medaille University of Nevada, Reno Amy W. Shannon University of Nevada, Reno Source Collaborative Librarianship Vol. 4, No. 4 (2012) Abstract This article uses the co-teaching experiences of workshop instructors at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries as a basis for an in-depth exploration […]
Recycling Partnership: Old Newspapers Provided by San Francisco Public Library Will Line Puppy Cages
|From the San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco Animal Care & Control has been relying on public contributions and occasional Chronicle donations of old newspapers to line animal cages and catch waste from puppies who don’t know how to take their business outside yet. But Thursday, an animal control van parked at the San Francisco Public […]
DPLA Nominating Committee Looking For Board Candidate Recommendations
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|From the Digital Public Library of America Blog: The DPLA Nominating Committee was established by the DPLA Board of Directors during a December 2012 meeting to recommend two additional members for the DPLA Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee is composed of the following individuals: Cathy Casserly, DPLA Board of Directors (Treasurer) Luis Herrera, DPLA […]