MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2017
Tennessee Secretary of State Says, “A New State Library and Archives Can’t Afford More Funding Delays”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News
|From Trey Hargett, Tennessee Sec. of State: As the legislative session winds down, I am cautiously optimistic that the General Assembly will include funding for a new Tennessee State Library and Archives building in the next state budget. I am optimistic because I have heard from many House and Senate members who support funding for […]
New Report/Case Study from Rand: “Use of Open Educational Resources in an Era of Common Standards”
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Interviews, News, Patrons and Users
|The following report/case study was published today by the Rand Corporation. The full text is available (no charge) and linked below. Title Use of Open Educational Resources in an Era of Common Standards: A Case Study on the Use of EngageNY Summary The purpose of this report is to better understand the uses of EngageNY in […]
Legal Research: Free Law Project Launches Effort to Download All Free Opinions and Orders from PACER
|From Free Law Project: Today we are launching a new project to download all of the free opinions and orders that are available on PACER. Since we do not want to unduly impact PACER, we are doing this process slowly, giving it several weeks or months to complete, and slowing down if any PACER administrators get […]
1. Alaska: Free Porn or Freedom From Porn? Anchorage Library Looks For Balance In Internet Rules (via Alaska Dispatch News) 2. Texas: Austin’s New Central Library Opening Delayed — Again — to Late this Year (via Austin American-Statesman) 3. Susan Pastore is the New Business Development Director at CHORUS 4. Challenges of Measuring PID Adoption (via […]
From The NY Times: Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in America, has turned itself into a social media powerhouse over the past few years. Its editors star in online videos on hot-button topics like the serial comma, gender pronouns and the dreaded “irregardless.” Its Twitter feed has become a viral sensation, offering witty — and […]
Juneau Lab Preserves Alaska’s Historical Documents
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the AP (via SF Chronicle): When the state was designing its new library, archives and museum for Juneau, engineers realized that problem, then designed and built a capacious laboratory specifically to preserve and restore paper documents. “We really saw there was this big need for paper conservation statewide,” [objects conservator Ellen] Carrlee explained. The […]
The NIH notice discussed below was published yesterday (March 24, 2016) and follows an October 2016 RFI about the use of interim research products. From a Notice (NOT-OD-17-050) Posted on the the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants Website: [Our Emphasis] The NIH encourages investigators to use interim research products, such as preprints, to speed […]
“A Snapshot of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe” was recently published by SPARC Europe and the Digital Curation Centre. From the Introduction: The DCC maintains a watching brief on funder data policies, and we are currently collaborating with SPARC Europe to extend our coverage to make it more comprehensive at European level […]
New Journal Article: “Digging in the Mines: Mining Course Syllabi in Search of the Library”
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|The following article was recently published in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP), Title Digging in the Mines: Mining Course Syllabi in Search of the Library Authors Keven M. Jeffery San Diego State University Library Kathryn M. Houk San Diego State University Library Jordan M. Nielsen San Diego State University Library Jenny M. Wong-Welch San […]
1. “Arizona State University Will Spend ‘Well More than $100 million’ Over the Next Few Years to Renovate and Rethink its Libraries…” (via Inside HigherEd) 2. Pacific Lutheran University Library Faces Budget Cuts (via MastMedia) 3. eLife Enables Direct Deposit to bioRxiv For Journal Submissions in Further Support of Preprints 4. EBSCO Information Services and the American […]