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Delta Think Reports on “The Impact of Transformative Agreements on the Value of the Big Deal, Part 1: Methodology”
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|From a Delta Think “News and Views” Post by Heather Staines: This month’s News & Views is derived from ongoing research involving Michael Levine-Clark, John McDonald, Jason Price, and Heather Staines. This content, and the planned May News & Views, is based on a session presented at the Charleston Conference in November 2021. How does […]
NEH Announces $33.17 Million for 245 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $33.17 million in grants for 245 humanities projects across the country. These grants include support for work on a new museum at the University of Buffalo to house the world’s largest collection of materials by and about James Joyce, […]
National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, Journey and More in 2022
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|From The Library of Congress: Alicia Keys’ debut album “Songs in A Minor,” Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” are some of the unforgettable sounds of the nation’s history and culture joining the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The 2022 class includes important inductions of hip-hop and […]
The article linked below was recently published by PLOS One. Title Why People Listen: Motivations and Outcomes of Podcast Listening Authors Stephanie J. Tobin Queensland University of Technology Rosanna E. Guadagno Stanford University Source PLOS One 17(4): e0265806 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265806 Abstract The aim of this preregistered study was to identify dispositional predictors of podcast listening […]
Just Launched Season of CLIR’s “Material Memory” Podcast Takes an “Audio Road Trip to Explore the Libraries, Archives, and Museums at Six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)”
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|From a Council on Library and Information Resources E-Mail: Dear Friend, My name is Sharon M. Burney, CLIR program officer and host of Material Memory. I invite you to listen to a project very close to my heart, the HBCU Library Alliance Tour, a podcast season focused on the rich histories held by Historically Black […]
Roundup (April 1, 2022)
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|Preservica Sets Out Its Commitments to New Charter for Digital Preservation Sustainability Research Data Alliance (RDA) Announces Launch of New Podcast, Data Streams Springer Nature Stops New Sales in Russia and Belarus Their Stories Should be Celebrated: Using AI to Deliver More Inclusive Biographical Content on Wikipedia (via Meta AI)
From the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia: The loss of Harry Elkins Widener onboard the R.M.S. Titanic inspired his mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener, who survived the maritime disaster, to build a great library at Harvard University in her son’s honor. She collaborated closely on the project with Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach—an endeavor that helped launch […]
“How a Treaty Signed in Marrakesh Made the Library of Congress More Accessible”
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|From The Washington Post: Braille and specially formatted audiobooks in Portuguese for a fifth-grader? The “Outlander” series in Braille? Various works by Nietzsche in Spanish audio? Books in Finnish for someone in hospice care? Such requests are not unusual for the Library of Congress’s National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. What’s dramatically […]
New Podcast: Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President K. Matthew Dames and Alexia Ward (MIT Libraries) Discuss “Creating an Equitable Workplace”
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|From ARL: Welcome to Fall Forum Extra, a podcast feature following the 2021 ARL Fall Forum hosted by K. Matthew Dames, Edward H. Arnold University Librarian at the University of Notre Dame and the 61st president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The Fall Forum is an annual event sponsored by ARL. Held in […]
Video Recording: Brewster Kahle’s Keynote at 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium
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|UPDATE February 9, 2022 The Archive-It Blog Has Posted a Summary of the 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium —- End Update — The video recording of Brewster Kahle’s keynote (embedded below and available at this url) was recorded on January 26, 2022 during the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition’s (CWAC) 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium. The […]