MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2016
UPDATE July 29, 2016 President Obama Formally Announces that Chicago’s Jackson Park Neighborhood Will Be Location of Presidential Library Note: Along with being close to the University of Chicago, the Jackson Park neighborhood is also home to one of the city’s most famous attractions and resources, the Museum of Science and Industry. The area was […]
1. Milestones: Apple Sells 1 Billionth iPhone 2. Toronto Public Library Creating Chinese Canadian Archive (via Metro) Note: Another Project, Just Launched: Database of More Than 6,000 Digitized Chinese-Canadian Artifacts Now Available Online 3. Prison Libraries: Rikers Island Gets Unofficial New York Public Library Branch (via amNewYork) 4. Ireland: Former librarian Who Stole Hundreds of Rare Antique Books […]
From Nielsen: According to Nielsen’s first-quarter 2016 comparable metrics report, TV is still the preferred choice for overall viewing, and is the most heavily consumed platform among adults of all ages. TV continues to play a role in shaping our experiences of live historical events, as consumers continue to watch television as they watch history […]
In The News: Text of All Speeches Delivered at 2016 Democratic National Convention
Conference Presentations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Video Recordings
|Last week during the Republican National Convention and we pointed out that the C-SPAN Video Library provides keyword searchable access to video of the entire convention proceedings and some additional events . Users can also create custom video clips. C-SPAN also uploads video of some speeches to YouTube. These services are also available this week. Video […]
Mellon Foundation Awards $750,000 to ‘Grand Challenges’ Research, Scholarly Publishing, Communications at Purdue University
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From Purdue University: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $750,000 to Purdue University to support a unique approach to research, scholarly publishing and communications on global grand challenges. The approach at Purdue is unique in two ways. First, it catalyzes the involvement of humanists and social scientists in grand challenges research, innovation and policy […]
New Report From CLIR: “The Open Data Imperative: How the Cultural Heritage Community Can Address the Federal Mandate”
Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
|The following report was published today by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). From CLIR’s News Release: New U.S. government requirements for exposing and managing federally funded research data add urgency to the call for curating data that can be used, reused, and exploited by future generations, according to a new report from […]
The info below was shared in a new MIT Libraries blog post. Kudos MIT Libraries! From the Blog Post: MIT has reached a new open access milestone: 44 percent of faculty members’ articles published since the OA policy passed in 2009 are now being shared in the Open Access Articles Collection of DSpace@MIT. (Last year, […]
This new resource is an offshoot of the Microsoft’s Knowledge Graph, most likely (we’ve asked) the Microsoft Academic Search (that we like a lot and you might want to take a look at), and Microsoft Academic Graph projects that we’ve posted about many times over the years. Links to two recent posts below. A new version […]
Earlier this month the Library of Congress released the revised 2016-2017 version of their Recommended Formats Statement. Direct to the Document: Recommended Formats Statement (HTML Version) Recommended Formats Statement (PDF; 31 pages) Previous Version (PDF; 29 pages) Background (via LC) What is the purpose of the Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement? There are two primary purposes of […]
From PFSK: Public libraries are important community spaces but they aren’t always first for funding. However, Dutch architecture firm Shau is helping to create a series of micro-libraries in Indonesia, the first of which ingeniously uses ice cream tubs. Built in the city of Bandung, the Taman Bima Microlibrary is a 1,700-square-foot structure that uses […]