MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2013
Academic Libraries: UC Davis Joins Google Books Library Project
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From a California Digital Library News Post by Heather Christenson and Karleen Darr: In June 2013, the UC [University of California] Davis Library began sending public domain (out-of- copyright) books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. UC Davis is the 6th UC site to participate in […]
New Brief From EDUCAUSE: “Copyright Challenges in MOOC Environments”
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Management and Leadership, News
|The following six-page brief was released today by EDUCAUSE. It was written by Joan Cheverie, Manager, Professional Development Programs for EDUCAUSE. Before joining the organization in 2011 Cheverie was Head of Copyright and Rights Management at Georgetown University. She has an MLIS degree from Catholic University. Direct to Full Text Brief (6 pages, PDF) Executive Summary […]
U.S. Federal Government: NARA Releases 2012 Records Management Self-Assessment
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From NARA: Today we released the 2012 Records Management Self-Assessment [4th annual] which presents the results of the annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) taken by Federal agencies. The goal of RMSA is to determine whether Federal agencies are compliant with statutory and regulatory records management requirements. Each responding agency receives a numerical score between 0-100 and […]
The Charleston Advisor Publishes Q&A Interview With Jeffrey Beall on Open Access Publishing
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
|A person we’ve mentioned several times on infoDOCKET in recent months (see below) is Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver. Beall writes about and compiles/maintains a list of “questionable” (aka predatory) open access publishers on his Scholarly Open Access blog. In the July 2013 issue of The Charleston Advisor, George Machovec (Managing […]
NEH Announces $3.5 Million for 2013 National Digital Newspaper Program Awards, including Participation by 4 New States and Territories
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News
|From the Chronicling America Newspaper Digitization Project (at LC) RSS Feed: Recently the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced 14 awards totaling $3.5 million to institutions representing their states or territories in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Three projects – sponsored by the Connecticut State Library; the Idaho State Historical Society; and the […]
From the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: “The library has always met the finding information need, and maybe a little bit of the interpreting information,” said Christopher Cox, dean of library services. “But what we haven’t always done is, we haven’t offered other services and technology that allow them to create information.” [Clip] Currently, 65 percent […]
From the APLM Announcement: Public Libraries of New Zealand (the Association of Public Library Managers) has appointed digital strategist and marketer Tim Antric as their new Executive Director. Association chair Paula Murdoch said “we’re thrilled to have Tim join the team as public libraries take a bigger role in our communities and look to how […]
The Archive of Indian Music (AIM) will formally launch tomorrow (July 30, 2013) at http://archiveofindianmusic.org/ The Press Trust of India has published an article about the project. From the Article: Mahatma Gandhi’s speech caught on gramophone during his 1931 visit to England now shares space with classical music legend M S Subhalakshmi’s song, recorded when […]
From the Kansas City Star: Thousands of library patrons across the metropolitan area share the same dream. They would like to carry one card that allows them to easily check out books and DVDs from almost all local libraries, no matter which city or side of the state line they call home. And they would […]
From The NY Post: Baseball artifacts stolen 40 years ago from the main branch of the New York Public Library are popping up online, and the FBI appears as stumped as a grade-schooler deciphering the Dewey Decimal System. The library is missing several hundred relics donated by baseball magnate Albert Spalding’s widow in 1921 — […]