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Sam Helmick and Ray Pun Seek American Library Association Presidency For 2025-26 Term
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|From the American Library Association: The American Library Association (ALA) Nominating Committee has selected two nominees to run for ALA president in the upcoming election. The candidates running for the 2025-26 term are Sam Helmick, Community & Access Services Coordinator at Iowa City Public Library, and Raymond Pun, Academic and Research Librarian at the Alder […]
Open Research Software: SoFAIR: The Open University to Coordinate new International Project to Facilitate the Reproducibility of Research Studies
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|From a CORE Blog Post: We are pleased to announce that the Open University has just been awarded a new research grant in the international CHISTERA Open Research Data & Software Call which aims to enhance the discoverability and reusability of open research software. Open research software and data are pivotal for scientific innovation and transparency, but […]
New Research Finds “Digitizing Books Can Spur Demand For Physical Copies”
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|From Cornell News: Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works. The publishers argued that free digital distribution undermines the market for physical books, but new research from Cornell’s Imke Reimers and a collaborator […]
ARL Board of Directors 2024 Elected by ARL Membership
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|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) elected its 2024 Board of Directors on October 18 during the Fall 2023 Association Meeting. On January 1, 2024, Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware, will begin a one-year […]
Dr. Adriene Lim to Retire as Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries, June 2024
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|From the University of Maryland (Full Text): Today, the University of Maryland announced the upcoming retirement of Dr. Adriene Lim, dean of University of Maryland Libraries. In the campus message, Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice noted that Dean Lim “has been a tireless leader for the Libraries, helping to achieve the Libraries’ substantial […]
Erla P. Heyns Selected as Vice Provost for UW–Madison Libraries
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From the UW-Madison News: Erla P. Heyns, associate professor and associate dean for learning at Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies in West Lafayette, Ind., has been selected as the next university librarian and vice provost for University Libraries. She will join the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on Jan. 1, 2024. Heyns has […]
New Position Paper From LIS Forward: “Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools” (Prerelease)
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|From the LIS Forward Website: We are pleased to make available the prerelease of the LIS Forward position paper, Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology(ASIS&T) being held in London, UK October 27-31, 2023. Several members of LIS Forward led a session at […]
Digitized Document Collection from U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Now Publicly Available Through National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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|From the National Library of Medicine: A collection of reproduced documents from the 1932 study by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men at Tuskegee Institute is now available as a digitized collection through the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee was conducted […]
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Publishes 2023 Annual Report
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|From ASERL: Today the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) published its 2023 Annual Report, highlighting key accomplishments for the prior year. Headlining the report is an overview of an innovative leadership development programmed piloted at the University of Miami and followed by a second event at Georgia Tech. Both events sold out and received […]
From a Joint Release: De Gruyter and Brill jointly announce they have reached agreement to form De Gruyter Brill through a recommended all-cash public offer by De Gruyter for all Brill securities at an offer price of EUR 27.50 per security (cum dividend), representing a total consideration of approx. EUR 51.5 million. The transaction creates […]