MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2015
A Selection of Banned Books Week Lists and Resources
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
|Banned Books Week 2015 begins today. Here’s a small selection of items that might be of interest. Interview Judy Blume Talks About Banned Books and Censorship in New Interview (September 17, 2015) From the Association of American Publishers (AAP) 10 Banned or Challenged Young Adult Books From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) “Banned […]
Audio: “The Public Library’s New Role As Community Center” (Las Vegas-Clark County Library District)
|From a KNPR Report: As Ron Heezen begins his second year as executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, he’s spearheading the county’s efforts to upgrade its libraries. [Clip] We call it, in libraries, ‘the third place.’ The first place is your home. You spend a lot of your life there. The second […]
Video: UC Berkeley’s Incoming University Librarian, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, on Why Privacy is Doomed
|Jeffrey MacKie-Mason will begin his new job as UC Berkeley’s University Librarian and Chief Scholarship Officer on October 1st. From UC Berkeley News: Surveillance and privacy are waging a full-on arms race as technology advances, says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s incoming university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer. And surveillance is winning. Speaking Wednesday (Sept. 23) […]
University of Mississippi: Mold Discovered Inside Archives and Special Collections Dept. of J.D. Williams Library
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From The Daily Mississippian: William Faulkner’s original manuscript materials, B.B. King’s personal listening collection and papers from notable Mississippi authors are just a few items among the Archives and Special Collections at J.D. Williams Library that have been recently threatened by the discovery of mold. Since August 18, 2015, the exhibit has been closed. Jennifer […]
bbsffA summary report, prepared by OCLC Research, was released today. The forum took place on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, at the Los Angeles Public Library. From a News Release: IMLS Focus: Engaging Communities summarizes the June 2, 2015 IMLS forum [held at the Los Angeles Public Library] that focused on surfacing strategies for the field […]
Via Politico: The Center for Political Accountability is out with a new database that, for the first time, gathers in one place corporate spending on federal elections, state elections and trade groups for all 500 members of the S&P. From the Database: orporations are prohibited from tapping their treasuries for direct contributions to federal candidates […]
Creative Commons Awarded $450,000 From Arcadia Fund to Support Open Access Publishing
Awards, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From CC: Creative Commons is pleased to announce a grant award in the amount of $450,000 over 3 years from the Arcadia Fund, the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. [Clip] Creative Commons will use funds from Arcadia to develop tools that complement the current CC license suite and empower authors to retain […]
On June 10th, the Library of Congress announced that the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, would retire effective January 1, 2016. Today, LC said that Dr. Billington will now retire effective next Wednesday, September 30, 2015 but did not provide any reason for the new retirement date. Deputy Librarian of Congress, David Mao, will serve […]
Available online via the GPO’s FDsys database and also embedded below is a copy of today’s (September 25, 2015) Congressional Record. Direct to Transcript (4 pages; PDF) Direct to Complete Issue (103 pages; PDF) Congressional Record Volume 161, Issue 138 (September 24, 2015) Text of Address to United States Congress by Address By Pope Francis […]
From Wales Online: The future of Wales’ National Library is at “major risk” with insolvency a real threat unless jobs are lost. That is the stark warning delivered in the organisation’s accounts and annual report. [Clip] [The report] adds that “financial fragility” is a “major risk factor” to the library’s future. “Failure to cut expenditure […]