MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2013
Note: £80m converts to approx. $130.9/USD. From the Oxford Mail: Oxford’s Bodleian Library is getting a new look, with the £80m Weston Library opening in the spring. The vast structure already appears to be totally different from the unloved 1930s New Bodleian building and in the spring Oxford will be celebrating the opening of a 10-storey building, […]
From the Kyodo News Service (via Japan Times): A consortium of 13 companies, including bookstore chain Kinokuniya Co. and online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., will test sales of e-books at regular bookstores next spring, sources said Sunday. The aim is to familiarize consumers with e-books and to halt the decline of regular bookstores across the […]
Scholarly Publishing: CrossRef Set to Launch a Text and Data Mining Service Named Prospect in Early 2014
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|In the new issue of CrossRef Quarterly, CrossRef’s Executive Director, Ed Pentz writes: CrossRef’s text and data mining service was just approved by the board at its November meeting. [Clip] The service is scheduled to roll out in early 2014. There are two main aspects of the service: 1) a common text and data mining (TDM) API that […]
Research Databases: “Orgs Ask DNI to Preserve Access to World News Connection”
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, News, Profiles, Reports
|Update time. In early October we posted, “CIA’s Open Source Center Plans to End Data Service that Powers World News Connection Database”. World News Connection (WNC) provides access to content from non-U.S. media including translations of non-English material. In their words: World News Connection (WNC) information is compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources obtained from […]
The following article is found in the latest issue of Communications In Information Literacy (Vol 7, No 2; 2013). Title “Information Literacy And Digital Literacy: Competing or Complementary” Author Rosanne Marie Cordell Northern Illinois University Source Communications In Information Literacy Vol 7 No 2 (2o13) Abstract Digital Literacy is a more recent term than Information […]
From The Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh): “In our community, there is a need for the library to serve as a safe place for kids that aren't with their parents in the after-school hours or during day hours in the summer,” said Anita Greene-Jones, director at the library in Braddock, where census numbers show 60 percent of families with children living below the poverty level.
A Recently Released Report by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA): “Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation”
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Recently Released by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). From a Report Summary (via The Signal (LC Blog)): The NDSA found that there was no dedicated digital preservation department in most organizations surveyed to take the lead in this area. In most cases, preservation tasks fell to a library, archive or other department. Close to […]
IP: Broadcasting Treaty Moving At WIPO; Library Copyright Exceptions Slower (SCCR 26)
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From IP Watch: During the discussions on exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, some developing countries drew a link between the recently adopted Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, and the current discussion on further limitations and exceptions. Developing countries are […]
Note: infoDOCKET shared a report about plans to rebuild Somalia’s National Library in a post on July 19, 2013. See: “Somalia’s National Library Rises Amid the Ruins” From the BBC: A project has been launched in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to rebuild the country’s national library. Dozens of displaced families had been sheltering inside the […]
Canada: Queens University Board of Trustees Approves Library and Archives Master Plan
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From Queens University in Kingston, Ontario: Queen’s new Library and Archives Master Plan (LAMP) envisions a transformed library system to meet the needs of students and researchers now and over the next twenty years. The plan, approved by the university’s Board of Trustees at its December meeting, focuses on enhancing spaces and services, to provide […]