MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2014
Earlier today at the Miami Book Fair (MBF) an interesting panel discussion took place that might be of to some of you. A video recording is already available online via the wonderful C-SPAN Video Library. According to the MBF program the session was titled, “The Dangers of Amazon and Other Monopolies” Program Blub Like it […]
Science: Physics: CERN Launches Open Data Portal
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, School Libraries
|From a CERN News Release: CERN today [November 20, 2014] launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and […]
NY Times Publishes Editorial Supporting FCC Chairman’s Proposed “Reboot” of E-Rate
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, School Libraries
|Note: More about the proposal including a fact sheet, comments by ALA and ISTE, and more can be found in the infoDOCKET post: FCC “Chairman Expected to Propose 62% Increase in Funding Used to Wire Schools, Libraries with Broadband.” (November 17, 2014) The editorial written by NY Times Editorial Board is titled, “Faster Broadband for […]
The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is the official journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. Editorial and Articles In Issue 7 (November, 2014): Editorial Introduction to Issue 7 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative by Susan Schreibman Learning the TEI in a Digital Environment by Stella Dee Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Suggestions […]
Nominations Now Open For 2015 Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL)
Academic Libraries, Awards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From Stanford University Libraries: For the third year in a row, Stanford Libraries opens nominations for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL), a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and new or improved services that benefits users. The deadline for entries is January 16, 2015. Eligibility for SPIRL includes […]
The VIVO database from the United States Department of Agriculture is now accessible by the public. This resource might also be useful to help identify experts on a variety of agricultural issues. VIVO, a Web application used internally by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists since 2012 to allow better national networking across disciplines and […]
Chris Bourg Named New Director of MIT Libraries, Will Also Oversee MIT Press
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Publishing
|From MIT: Chris Bourg has been named as the new director of the MIT Libraries, effective in February. Provost Martin Schmidt announced her appointment today in an email to the MIT community. Bourg comes to MIT from Stanford University, where she is currently associate university librarian for public services. At Stanford, Bourg oversees the largest […]
From Science Insider: Breaking new ground for the open-access movement, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy doesn’t kick in until January 2017; until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals as long […]
From The Guardian: It’s an unusual view to behold from a municipal library. The midday sun hangs just above the horizon, casting a heavenly glow across the water, beneath a sky streaked with pink, orange and blue. A foreground of fishing huts and boats armed with whaling harpoons completes the picture, which could come straight […]
A new version of Datos.bne.es (beta) recently debuted online from the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España/BNE). A BNE blog post (English translation) provides some highlights: RDF Data is CC0 New Visual Interface Bibliographic and Authority Data Available 4,138,285 Bibliographic Records 4,384,132 Authority Records Example: Here’s the authority record for some person named […]