MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2012
Digital Preservation: 480 New Volumes Added to LOCKSS Digital Library and Now Available to LOCKSS Alliance Members
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|Along with the 480 new volumes, material from 2 new publishers and 10 new titles are now included in LOCKSS. The digital library is now home to more than 9,000 e-journal titles from 510 publishers. You can learn more here and also review a spreadsheet (XLS) with a list of titles and participating publishers. A […]
Resource Discovery: U. of Penn Libraries Launches “Unique at Penn” Blog
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users
|This is a great idea! We would be very happy to learn about other libraries/archives doing the same type of thing. It’s an example of both very useful (for both the library and library user) and very practical marketing. From Penn Current: Libraries hold treasures. Yet not everyone has the time or opportunity to stroll […]
From the The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY): Sitting in his hotel room in Saudi Arabia in April 1964, civil rights activist Malcolm X penned a letter on hotel stationery to his friend and co-author, Alex Haley. [Clip] Now, Haley’s son wants that letter back. A rare documents dealer working with William Haley says the letter is […]
UK: Warning Over Digital Archive ‘Black Hole’
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries
|From the BBC: Valuable data about key aspects of modern Scottish life is being lost in a digital archive “black hole”, it has been warned. The National Library of Scotland said online and social media coverage from the past 20 years was disappearing. [Clip] NLS chief executive Martyn Wade said: “In Scotland and across the […]
Full Text: PhD Dissertation: “Intellectual Freedom And The Politics Of Reading: Libraries As Sites Of Conservative Activism, 1990-2010”
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access
|Title Intellectual Freedom And The Politics Of Reading: Libraries As Sites Of Conservative Activism, 1990-2010 Author Loretta Mary Gaffney Source Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, 2012 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science. Abstract During the 1990s and […]
Canada: Archivists Protest in Ottawa Over Federal Cuts (Audio & Video Reports)
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Archivists from across Canada protested in Ottawa on Monday over a funding cut that will affect efforts to preserve Canadian history in small historical archives and museums in dozens of communities. The National Archival Development Program — a federal grant program with a budget of about $1.7 million annually — […]
From the National Archives (UK): Opening up Archives, The National Archives’ project to tackle skills shortages in the wider archives sector, has been allocated additional funding of over £250,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Speaking about the additional funding, Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development, The National Archives, said: ‘This is fantastic news […]
From The World Bank: A few large companies dominate export markets in developing and developed countries, with the top one percent often accounting for more than half – sometimes nearly 80 percent – of total exports, according to a new World Bank database with a wealth of details on exporting firms. The new Exporter Dynamics Database […]
Research Article: “Beyond Citations: Scholars’ Visibility on the Social Web” (Preprint)
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Profiles, Resources, School Libraries
|Title Beyond Citations: Scholars’ Visibility on the Social Web Authors Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Stefanie Haustein Central Library, Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany) Isabella Peters Department of Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University (Germany) Jason Priem School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA) Hadas Shema Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan […]
From a U. of Chicago Library News Post by Sarah Wenzel: As emerging disciplines develop at the University of Chicago, the Library creates new collections and services to support them. Recent examples in the humanities include the addition of zines and poetry chapbooks made in Chicago, the expansion of the graphic novel collections, and most […]