MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2021
From the Library of Congress The Library of Congress has acquired more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trials against four Los Angeles police officers in the 1990s, drawn by courtroom sketch artist Mary Chaney (1927-2005). Rodney Glen King (1965-2012) was an unarmed African-American man savagely beaten by four white police officers […]
A New Online Tool From Fight For the Future Looks at “Inequities in the Digital Publishing Revolution”
Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From Fight For the Future: Fight for the Future has built a new tool to highlight the inequities in the digital publishing revolution. Public libraries, public schools, independent booksellers, as well as disabled, rural, and low income readers are being cut out of the US’s digital future. [Clip] Fight for the Future’s new tool highlights […]
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Publishes “Future Thinking: Resource Guide to Controlled Digital Lending”
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL): Today the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) published “Future Thinking: ASERL’s Guide to Controlled Digital Lending for Research Libraries.” The publication offers a high-level view of the benefits and risks for libraries that may be considering implementation of a Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program. Controlled Digital […]
Roundup (February 24, 2021)
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Roundup
|BiblioCommons Launches BiblioEmail For Public Libraries Elizabeth German Joins The Open Library Foundation as Senior Program Officer Keeping the Pages Turning at Duke Libraries (via Duke Today) Net Neutrality Law to Take Effect in California After Judge Deals Blow To Telecom Industry (via Washington Post) Pittsburgh: Librarian Seeks to Reclaim The Archives For Everyone (via […]
New Google Map to Search for Indigenous-Related Collection Items From Library and Archives Canada
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From LAC: Over the past three years, We Are Here: Sharing Stories has digitized and described over 590,000 images of archival and published materials related to First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation. Digitized and described content includes textual documents, photographs, artworks and maps as well as numerous language publications. All items are searchable and […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL): “Statement on Biden-Harris Administration’s Prioritization of Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policy-Making”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) commends the Biden-Harris administration’s intention to rely on scientific integrity and evidence-based policy-making to address its priorities of COVID-19, racial justice, the economy, and climate change. We are 125 major research libraries from across the United States and Canada that are committed to equitable, barrier-free access to […]
From a SPARC Announcement: SPARC has partnered with the Knowledge Equity Lab to launch a new podcast called Unsettling Knowledge Inequities, which will explore issues related to the politics of knowledge production, exchange, and circulation as well as the structural, global power dynamics that shape it. Launching today with its first episode and new episodes […]
From the National Library of Israel: One of the world’s oldest known Esther scrolls (also known as a “megillah“) has recently been gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, home to the world’s largest collection of textual Judaica, where it has also been made available online for the first time. Esther scrolls contain […]
From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)/FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression): IFLA responded to a call for inputs about human rights impacts of measures against disinformation, issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. […]
Knowledge Unlatched Presents Open Access Heroes 2021 (Books, Publishers, Countries Seeing Most OA Usage)
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|From KU: Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), is pleased to announce OA Heroes 2021, which highlights the countries, institutions, publishers, disciplines, and authors seeing the most usage of scholarly titles made OA through KU. The number of total interactions (including downloads and views) for KU titles has grown year on […]