MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2016
1. Wally Lamb’s New Novel is Like a Super Enhanced E-Book (via Marketplace/NPR) 2. Linked Data: NLM Releases 2017 MeSH RDF Beta (via NLM Technical Bulletin) 3. IFLA Promotes Library and User Interests at WIPO (via International Federation of Library Associations) 4. University of British Columbia Library Joins OLH LPS Model 5. Open Access Books: […]
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: In 2015, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings that were 81 percent of those of male full-time wage and salary workers. In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women’s earnings were 62 percent of men’s. Since 2004, […]
Czech Republic: Culture Ministry Wants to Create “a Country of Libraries”
Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News
|From Prague Daily Monitor: The Culture Ministry wants to change the Czech Republic into “a country of libraries” within its concept that also revives the plan to build a new seat of the National Library (NK) in Prague, daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote on Thursday. According to the ambitious plan, brand new seats of the […]
From OpenAire: Little over five months away from its conclusion, the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot has shared an up-to-date dataset for the APC payments it has made thus far with the OpenAPC initiative run at Universität Bielefeld. The OpenAPC project started in June 2014 as a tool funded by the German Research Foundation […]
From the CBC: The Toronto Public Library will “stand up against hate speech,” according to a statement from city librarian Vickery Bowles after hate graffiti was found recently on library property. City Librarian @vbowlestpl speaks out against hate graffiti found on library branch. Please RT or share your own. https://t.co/PU5fmcSBxR The anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled […]
The following article (preprint) was recently accepted for publication in the November 2017 issue of C&RL. Title Researchers’ Expectations Regarding the Online Presence of Academic Libraries Authors Anna Mierzecka University of Warsaw Małgorzata Kisilowska University of Warsaw Andrius Suminas University of Warsaw Source C&RL (College and Research Libraries) Abstract Introduction The article reports the results […]
Ireland: Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) Plan to Open Up National Library Collections
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From TechCentral.ie: The Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) has launched a plan for a shared national online catalogue, that will make all collections held by research libraries across Ireland searchable by the public online. This step would bring Ireland in line with its European and US counterparts, where national catalogues are available to […]
From a Philanthropy News Digest Report: Approximately a quarter of all American adults volunteered through an organization in 2015, while nearly two-thirds helped their neighbors in some manner, an annual report from the Corporation for National and Community Service finds. According to the report, Volunteering and Civic Life in America, 62.6 million adults (24.9 percent) […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s an interesting roundup of facts and stats compiled by the U.S. Census. The compilation includes a link to the source of each statistic. Intro and Three Entries (of Many) From the Full Document In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims — early settlers of Plymouth Colony — held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful […]
From Pew Research: About a quarter of American adults (26%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form. So who, exactly, are these non-book readers? Several demographic traits correlate with non-book reading, Pew Research Center surveys have found. For instance, adults […]