MORE POSTS FROM 2021
LC Labs Letter: December 2021 Now Available Online (via Library of Congress) Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over Ebook Rules (via Axios) Public Knowledge Project and SciELO Announce Renewed Partnership (via PKP)
From The Texas Tribune: When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won’t be for the holidays. Instead, a group of six librarians in this small Central Texas county will be conducting a “thorough review” of every children’s book in the library, at the behest of the Llano […]
Ithaka S+R Announces Leading by Diversifying Collections: A New Project to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academic Libraries
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From Ithaka S+R: As academic libraries seek to meaningfully engage with calls to improve practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) it is important that the library’s collections align with that mission. Yet, Ithaka S+R’s recent survey of library directors found that most libraries have not developed criteria for evaluating and making decisions related […]
DC Public Library Foundation Receives $2.7 Million Donation From Jeff Bezos, Largest Donation Ever to Foundation Depository Library Council (DLC) Recommendations & Working Group Request (via FDLP) FCC Announces Over $1 Billion in Rural Broadband Support to 32 States Open Library Introduces Trusted Book Providers, Five Integrations Announced (via OL Blog) Technical Report Archive & […]
Title Research Note: Lies and Presidential Debates: How Political Misinformation Spread Across Media Streams During the 2020 Election Authors Jaren Haber Georgetown University Lisa Singh Georgetown University Ceren Budak University of Michigan Josh Pasek University of Michigan Meena Balan Georgetown University Ryan Callahan Georgetown University Rob Churchill Georgetown University Brandon Herren Georgetown University Kornraphop Kawintiranon […]
From an Open GLAM (on Medium) Post by Douglas McCarthy: Global distribution of Open GLAM At the time of writing, more than 1200 instances of Open GLAM practice have been recorded. In which regions of the world is Open GLAM most often seen? As the Open GLAM survey has been extensively annotated in Wikidata, visualisations […]
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” […]
From IU (Indiana University) ScholarWorks: This report documents the experience and findings of the Audiovisual Metadata Platform Pilot Development (AMPPD) project, which has worked to enable more efficient generation of metadata to support discovery and use of digitized and born-digital audio and moving image collections. The AMPPD project was carried out by partners Indiana University […]
From the Portal to Canadian Research Outputs Website: … the Portal of Canadian Research Outputs has been developed as part of a collaboration between Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and OpenAIRE. The portal presents research results collected from Canadian institutional repositories compliant to OpenAIRE guidelines and from the OpenAIRE Research Graph. It links them […]
Roundup (December 17, 2021)
Associations and Organizations, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
|cOAlition S Starts Building Its Journal Comparison Service to Help Create Visibility of Publishing Services and Prices News From UK: Elsevier Makes a 7th Proposal for a Read-And-Publish Deal, and Agrees to Maintain Our Current Read-Access to Journals Beyond 31 December Whilst Negotiations Continue (Cambridge University Libraries) New York Ebook Bills Goes to Governor (via […]