MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2021
Roundup (February 23, 2021)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Roundup
|A New Book: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge by Peter Kaufman ||| Read an Excerpt From the Book (via LARB) Australia: National Library’s Collections Face ‘Significant Future Risks’ Without Funding for Storage Elsevier Donates Original Drawings of the Pernkopf Anatomy Atlas to the Medical University of Vienna Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week […]
Public Library Association Introduces “Benchmark Briefings: For U.S. Public Libraries”; Free Resource Allows for Library Peer Comparison
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
|From Public Library Association (via American Library Association): The Public Library Association (PLA) has launched the Benchmark Briefings to support public libraries’ access and use of data. The free resource translates data from the Public Libraries Survey (PLS) conducted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) into accessible infographics to ease library peer […]
Video Recording: “The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity & Resistance”
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation, Video Recordings
|The video embedded below was shared today on Getty Research Institute’s YouTube channel. It was recorded on February 19, 2021. From the Description: Join bibliographer Simone Fujita and curator Krystal Tribbett for a conversation about the role of libraries and archives in indexing Black creative thought and resistance. Fujita and Tribbett discuss the responsibilities of […]
Emory to Include Libraries and Museum Under New Leadership Structure Workshop Report The 1st AAAI Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding (SDU 2021) (via Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group ; ODU)
From the Introduction to the Report: Americans are divided – that much is obvious after a contentious presidential election and transition, and in the midst of a politicized pandemic that has prompted a wide range of reactions. But in addition to the familiar fault line of political partisanship, a look back at Pew Research Center’s […]
Atlanta University Center (AUC) Woodruff Library, University of Maryland Libraries, and Project STAND Receive $750,000 Mellon Collaborative Grant to Advance Archiving of Social Justice Initiatives Among College Students of Color
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Podcasts
|From a Joint Announcement: The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library in partnership with Project STAND has received generous funding of $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a three-year project: Building Capacity, Ethical Documentation and Archiving of Student Activism in BIPOC Communities. The project will advance the community archiving of social justice […]
From the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) /University of London: The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) is excited to announce the launch of its new archiving platform powered by Preservica on February 21st 2021, International Mother Language Day – celebrating humanity’s cultural and linguistic diversity. ELAR holds audiovisual collections of endangered languages recorded with and by communities all over the […]
A New Issue of “The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion” (IJIDI) is Now Available Online
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, New Issue, News
|A new issue (Vol 5, No 1) of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) is now available online. IJIDI is sponsored by the Information & Computer Science Dept. (Library & Information Science Program), U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto Direct to Table of Contents […]
Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week
|From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not Real News” […]
A New Interactive Web Archive From Simon Fraser University Library: “Dispatches From the Poetry Wars”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News
|From Simon Fraser University Library: Dispatches from the Poetry Wars was a lively, often contentious North American literary website with a strong satirical, anti-academic and pro-New American Poetry bent. It published poetry, fiction, letters, interviews, documents, polemics, satire, art work, video and audio material. Working with the editors of Dispatches, Digital Library Services and Special Collections captured […]