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2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture: Heather Joseph
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The following article was recently shared (pre-press) by Information Services & Use. Title 2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture: Heather Joseph Author Heather Joseph SPARC Source Information Services & Use (2021) Abstract This paper is based upon the 2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture that was given by Heather Joseph at the second annual NISO Plus conference […]
News from the UK: Library and Higher Education Organizations Issue “Joint Statement on Access to E-Book and E-Textbook Content”
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Note: The Joint Statement is Also Available From Others Including Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and SCONUL From a Full Text of Joint Statement (via JISC): Together with other representatives and sector bodies, Jisc has pledged to help students and teachers in UK higher and further education to gain equitable and sustainable access to e-books, e-textbooks […]
From the University of Buffalo: A multidisciplinary research team led by the University at Buffalo has been awarded $750,000 to develop digital literacy tools to curb the deleterious effects of online disinformation. The grant is from the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, a program launched in 2019 that builds upon basic research and discovery to […]
Survey Findings on Students Attitudes Towards Ebooks at the University of Cambridge Now Available
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From the ebooks@cambridge Blog: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sudden switch to online learning, and an unprecedented need to expand remote and online access to electronic resources. The Cambridge College Libraries Forum (CCLF) carried out a student survey between 31st May and 16th July 2021 to gather data on attitudes towards ebooks. Students were […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $28.4 Million for 239 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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A full list of the 239 grants by geographic location is available here. From NE The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $28.4 million in grants for 239 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary about the 1873 Colfax Massacre, the bloodiest instance of racial violence during Reconstruction, and the […]
University of Pennsylvania: “Penn Libraries is Part of a Multi-Institution-Funded Project to Digitize Materials from Early Medical Education”
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From Penn Today: The script in black ink on cream cotton rag paper is filled with flourishes on the title page of the dissertation by University of Pennsylvania medical student Americus Vesuvius Payne, dated March 30, 1820. In the corner, in pencil, is the address, No. 201 Walnut. Photographed at the Penn Libraries earlier this […]
From Indiana University: Indiana University’s Lilly Library, home to significant rare-book collections and literary artifacts, will reopen in August after wrapping up a full-scale renovation that reimagined the iconic facility’s interior to meet the needs of modern scholars. Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie rededicated the internationally renowned Lilly Library to service in the university’s […]
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Awards $552,905 for Recordings at Risk
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From a CLIR Announcement: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the award of nearly $553,000 to fund 17 Recordings at Risk projects. This eighth cohort of recipients will build on the work of the 110 previously funded projects, which have already digitally preserved more than 17,400 at-risk audio or visual recordings. […]
“Open Knowledge and Social Justice: An Interview With SPARC’s Heather Joseph”
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From an Information Today Interview with Heather Joseph by Dave Shumaker: Here’s one exchange from the conversation. Dave Shumaker: It’s interesting that so much of your work has been identified with open access, but your [Miles Conrad Award] lecture wasn’t really about access. You made a point of that, and you used the phrase “open […]
Association of American Publishers Announces Subject Category Winners of 2021 Prose Awards
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From AAP: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled 45 Subject Category Winners for the 2021 PROSE Awards honoring the best scholarly works published in 2020. A panel of 23 judges selected these winners from a total of 130 Finalists from an overall pool of 595 entries for this year’s PROSE Awards competition. “These […]
