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The letter was written by ARL’s Brandon Butler (on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance), has sent a letter to six member of the U.S. House of Representatives (and House Judiciary Committee) thanking them for their, “vigorous advocacy of First Amendment rights and the value of an open and secure Internet during last week’s markup […]
New Issue Alert: Information Standards Quarterly (Fall 2011)
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, New Issue, Productivity, Publishing
|Information Standards Quarterly (Vol. 23, No. 4; Fall 2011;) The theme of this issue: Standards Implementation Benefits Via NISO: In the issue’s main feature article, Mary Jackson (Auto-Graphics, Inc.) quantifies the productivity benefits of implementing the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) standard and illustrates the savings with case studies and before and after workflow comparisons. […]
Publishing: Neal-Schuman Will Become an ALA Publishing Imprint Later This Week
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing
|From an ALA News Release: American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael and Neal-Schuman President Patricia Glass Schuman today announced that on Dec. 23, 2011, Neal-Schuman Publishers will become part of ALA Publishing. Neal-Schuman Publishers, founded by John Vincent Neal and Patricia Glass Schuman in 1976, will continue to offer print and electronic publications under […]
New White Paper: "Orphan Works: Definitional Issues"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Title: “Orphan Works: Definitional Issues” Author: David Robert Hansen (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) Source: Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project White Paper No. 1 (via SSRN) Abstract: This paper outlines responses to two definitional questions that arise in the context of orphan works: (1) exactly what is the “orphan works” problem?, and […]
Librarian Salaries: Association of Research Libraries Publishes 2010-2011 Salary Survey
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From an ARL News Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010–2011, which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in 125 ARL member libraries during 2010–2011. Data are reported for 10,037 professional staff in the 115 university ARL libraries and for 3,709 professional staff in the […]
Research Libraries: ARL Publishes 2009-2010 Statistics
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published ARL Statistics 2009–2010, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of the 125 ARL member libraries in 2009–2010. Of these, 115 were university libraries (18 in Canada and 107 in the US); the […]
UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library to Receive $6.25M for Document Indexing and Access
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the UCSF Web Site: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order today with a federal district court that finalizes requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents will be […]
Now Available: Recordings of Sessions From ARL-CNI Fall Forum
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries
|Direct to Audio and Slides Audio recordings of several sessions are now available along with the slide decks that were already online. The Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting took place in Washington, DC on October 13–14, 2011 and was titled, “21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action.” Here’s a list of the sessions […]
Now Available: Recordings of Sessions From 159th ARL Membership Meeting
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries
|Direct to Audio and Slides Audio recordings of several sessions are now available along with the slide decks that were already online. The Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting took place in Washington, DC on October 12–13, 2011 and was titled, “Expanding Capacity and Partnerships in the Digital World.” Here’s a list of the sessions […]
NISO and Open Archives Initiative Receive Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Create Resource Synchronization Standard
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Open Access, Resources
|From the National Institute of Standards Organizations: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple […]