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American Booksellers Association Donates Archives to Columbia University
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s American Booksellers Association (ABA) Announcement: The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Columbia University Libraries are happy to announce ABA’s donation of the association’s extensive organizational and bookseller archives to the university to be housed in Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML). The archives consist of first editions […]
From the University of North Carolina: A partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will create an online searchable public depository of roughly 4 million internal documents from the state of North Carolina’s $47.8 million settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs. [Clip] […]
Diamond Open Access: DIAMAS Publishes Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey Results
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|From a DIAMAS Post The publication of the survey results marks a significant milestone for DIAMAS and for Diamond Open Access. There is now a clear and intelligible picture of the European landscape of institutional publishing activities, with clear pathways to strengthen and support their operations. Our findings show how institutional publishers work, the scale […]
Simon & Schuster Marks Centennial with List of 100 Notable Books; Creative Commons (CC) Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review; & More Headlines
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|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association Launches National Search For Executive Director Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review Library of Congress Hidden Treasures: More Rare Books in the Online Catalog (via LC) OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) OASPA-2023 in Review OCLC Introducing the OCLC Research Library Partnership […]
Library Data: IMLS Launches New State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool
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|From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched a new State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool on IMLS.gov.The SLAA Survey Comparison Tool is an online dashboard that allows users to select and compare data from up to 3 states collected from the biennial SLAA Survey in a visually accessible […]
Minneapolis Schools Added More Librarians. Now Books are Flying Off the Shelves; ImagineIF Library Board Adds Obscenity Language to Collection Policy; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Association of Research Libraries UIC Dean of Libraries Begins Appointment As Vice President/President-Elect Of Association Of Research Libraries (via UIC) Climate Change Biden-Harris Administration Shares New Land Cover Data to Help Communities Understand Coastal Change (via NOAA) Funding CLIR Awarded US State Department Grant for Algerian Library Preservation Project (via Council on Library and Information […]
Suzanne Wones is the New University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From UC Berkeley News: UC Berkeley has chosen a new University Librarian, Suzanne L. Wones, who is associate university librarian for discovery and access at Harvard Library. Wones, with 20 years’ experience as a leader in academic libraries, will start her new post July 1, following University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason’s retirement. In a recent interview with Berkeley News, […]
Atlanta University Center (AUC) Library CEO & Director, Loretta Parham to Retire This Year
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|From AUC (via PR Newswire) (Full Text): Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc., will retire after 19 years of outstanding leadership of the Library. The Board of Trustees and governing body of the AUC Woodruff Library is announcing her planned retirement date of June […]
Athena Jackson Named UCLA University Librarian
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|From the UCLA Library (Full Text): Athena N. Jackson has been named UCLA’s Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian. Her appointment will begin March 1. Jackson, the former director of special collections at UCLA Library, has served since 2021 as dean of libraries at the University of Houston, where she holds the Elizabeth D. Rockwell […]
Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library Completes Grant Making Recordings, Speeches, and More From The Southern Labor Archives Audio Collection Digitally Accessible
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|From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]