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9 Library, Publishing, and Research Organizations Send Letter to Congress in Support of FRPAA
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Libraries, Open Access, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Direct to Full Text Letter (3 pages; PDF) The letter is signed by: AALL ALA ACRL ARL Creative Commons Greater Western Library Alliance Public Knowledge Public Library of Science SPARC From the Letter: Timely, barrier-free access to the results of federally funded research is an essential component of our collective investment in science. We fully […]
Updated Statistics: Library Expenditures as % of University Expenditures Continue to Fall; Canadian Data Now Included
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries
|Updated spreadsheets and charts now available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Data on University & Library Total Expenditures (formerly known as the E&G Survey) are used to produce charts and tables showing what fractions of total university spending have gone towards the research library. Since 2003, this information has not been gathered in […]
President Requests $231,953,777 for Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Public Libraries
|UPDATE: ALA President Comments on LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Funding in FY 2013 Budget From IMLS: President Obama has requested $231,953,777 for fiscal year 2013 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an amount equal to the agency’s current funding. IMLS inspires libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and […]
Why Penguin Terminated Their Contract With OverDrive
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Why did Penguin terminate their contract with OverDrive? Here’s what we’ve learned from an INFOdocket source. We are told that publisher contracts with OverDrive allow them to store and serve library end users ebooks. That’s it. OverDrive does NOT have permission to first authorize the lending of an ebook to a library end user and […]
On Tuesday, Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress; Davita Vance-Cooks, Acting Public Printer of the U.S.; and others spoke to the House Appropriations Committee’s, Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch about their FY 2013 budget requests. We posted highlights from Ms. Vance-Cooks prepared testimony the other day. Now, here’s the full text of the prepared testimony […]
New Legislation: Bill Would Require Public Access to Taxpayer-Supported Research (Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012)
Associations and Organizations, Funding, News, Open Access, Preservation
|UPDATE: Federal Research Public Access Act 2012 FAQ (via Alliance For Taxpayer Access) UPDATE: Full Text: Letter from ALA, SLA, SAA, Progressive Librarians Guild, OMB Watch, OpentheGovernment.org & Others In Opposition of Research Works Act (PDF) UPDATE: Seven public health groups write to oppose the “Research Works Act” (via Knowledge Ecology International) From The Chronicle of […]
ALA President Reports on Recent Meeting With Publishers + Comments from Publishers About Talks
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Reports
|First, comments from ALA President, Molly Raphael. Then, a few comments from INFOdocket. Finally, a report from LJ with comments from the publishers who were at the meeting. From an American Libraries Post from ALA President, Molly Raphael: As recently reported, I led an ALA delegation to New York last week to meet separately with […]
From IFLA: Namespaces for the consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) have been published in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web. The namespaces can be accessed at http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/. The ISBD element set vocabulary includes RDF classes and properties corresponding to ISBD elements. Six concept vocabularies give the controlled […]
New from Library Copyright Alliance: "Golan v. Holder: A Farewell to Constitutional Challenges to Copyright Laws"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News
|A summary of the recent Golan v. Holder decision by the Supreme Court of the United States was written for the LCA by attorney/intellectual property expert, Jonathan Band. The Summary Begins: On January 13, 2012, the Supreme Court by a 6-2 vote affirmed the Tenth Circuit decision in Golan v. Holder. (Justice Kagan recused herself, presumably […]
EPA Releases New Interactive Tool with Information About Water Pollution Across the U.S.
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users
|From a Recent EPA Announcement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a new tool that provides the public with important information about pollutants that are released into local waterways. Developed under President Obama’s transparency initiative, the Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Pollutant Loading Tool brings together millions of records and allows for […]