MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2021
ARL: “Research Libraries Ensure Trustworthiness in Times of Need”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|From a Post by Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries As we emerge into what follows historic crises in public health, democracy, and social justice, our society is challenged in almost every dimension of our lives with questions of trust and trustworthiness—whether about higher education, the media, the political system, or any […]
ALA Requests Feedback From Library Community on Library Programming Learning Objectives
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From the American Library Association: The American Library Association (ALA) seeks feedback from the library field on “Skills for 21st-Century Librarians: Learning Objectives for Library Programming,” a document marking the Association’s next steps toward the creation of a programming curriculum for library workers and students.Library workers, library school instructors and administrators, students and others are […]
A New Issue (Vol. 4, No. 1) of “Weave: Journal of Library User Experience ” is Now Available Online
Interviews, Libraries, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|The latest issue (Vol. 4, No. 1) of Weave: Journal Of Library User Experience was recently published online. From an Introductory Post by Editor-in-chief: Rebecca Blakiston: In this issue, we focus on digital accessibility and incorporating design frameworks into library instruction and orientation. Accessibility is critical, as we want our designs to work for as […]
Emory University Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Launches Digital Learning Hub to Mark Apollo 15 Moon Mission’s 50th Anniversary
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|From Emory University: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 Mission, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) has launched a new digital learning hub that assembles, preserves and makes available primary source records of Apollo 15 for research, education, history and as an example of a unique human endeavor. The hub will […]
2021 Canadian Book Market Half-Year Review (via BookNet Canada) Independent Together: The State of Art Book Publishing (via Art in America) Exact Editions Introduces Climate Crisis Digital Resource Page Providing Full Text Access to Articles From Over 50 Different Publications New “Accepted Titles” List: Get Early Insights into New Scopus content (via Scopus Blog) Outstanding […]
UPDATE: August 10, 2021: Announcement from the Authors Alliance About the Publication — From a UC Berkeley Library Blog Post by Timothy Vollmer: Last summer we hosted the Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining institute. We welcomed 32 digital humanities researchers and professionals to the weeklong virtual training, with the goal to empower them […]
Connecticut: “CT Libraries See More Book Removal Requests, But Few Get Pulled From Shelves” (via @TheHourNews) Diane M. Rodriguez Assumes Role as President of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Ireland: “Authors Paid an Average of €32 [$37/USD] For Borrowed Library Books” (via @irishexaminer) Scholar on Book Bans and Critical Race Theory” (via @NPR) […]
From The Botanical Society of America: A network of over 100 herbaria spread out across the southeastern United States recently completed the herculean task of fully digitizing more than three million specimens collected by botanists and naturalists over a span of 200 years. The project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, is part […]
The following article was recently published by In the Library with a Lead Pipe. Title Dismantling the Evaluation Framework Authors Alaina C. Bull University of Washington Tacoma Project Information Literacy Margy MacMillan Mount Royal University Project Information Literacy Alison J. Head Director, Project Information Literacy metaLAB (at) Harvard Source In the Library with a Lead […]
Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week
|From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not Real News” […]