MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2013
Here’s an update to a story we first posted about on March 25, 2013. A week earlier we also shared comments about ebook-library privacy in this post. Now, the update (via Arizona Republic): Arizona lawmakers passed and Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law House Bill 2165, which adds e-books to the state statute restricting what public-library circulation […]
The following research paper recently became available via arXiv. Title Are Elite Journals Declining? Authors Vincent Lariviere University of Montreal Université du Québec à Montréal George A. Lozano Estonian Centre of Evolutionary Ecology Yves Gingras Université du Québec à Montréal Source Authors (via arXiv) Abstract Previous work indicates that over the past 20 years, the […]
Ebook Anxieties Increase as Publishing Revolution Rolls On
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From The Guardian: It used to be that a book was published, and that was it. Permanent, physical, tangible, it could be referred to for as long as the copy survived. That’s not the case any more. We live in a world where page numbers – if they exist at all – don’t correlate from […]
From a U.S. House of Rep. Judiciary Committee News Release: Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Judiciary Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. The announcement was made at the World Intellectual Property Day celebration at the Library of Congress. From Rep. Goodlatte’s […]
Three Case Studies From Europeana Partners Discuss Use of API, Pinterest, and Twitter
Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|The following case studies (first presented at a open data case studies workshop in late January) and were recently shared on the Europeana Professional blog. 1. Europeana API Implementation in Polish Digital Libraries (Blog Post) (Blog Post) Direct to Full Text Case Study (6 pages; PDF) Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) have been working with Polish […]
From a Bangor Daily News Editorial: It’s up to city residents now to decide whether the Bangor Public Library will keep its copper dome roof. When voters go to the polls June 18, they will see this question on the ballot: “Shall the Order ‘Authorizing a $3,000,000 Bond Issue to Repair the Bangor Public Library Roof’ […]
From The Baylor Lariat: Some say that limited space is an issue in the central libraries. On-site resources and a growing student population both vie for space in the libraries. This leaves some students feeling crowded and wishing for more space, several students said. Library officials said they are working to meet students’ needs within […]
From MarylandReporter.net: The five electronic servers maintaining Internet communications for 30 different state agencies have an “outdated and vulnerable” operating system, auditors found in a report on the Maryland State Archives. The Maryland State Archives also did not provide adequate control or records over the state’s $31 million art collection, the report by the legislative […]
From the San Jose Mercury News: San Jose named Jill Bourne as the city’s new library director Tuesday, replacing Jane Light who retired in March 2012. [Clip] Bourne, 43, has been the deputy city librarian at the San Francisco Public Library since 2006, overseeing the main library and 27 branches. Before that, she was assistant […]
The following full text conference paper was made available today via arXiv. Title Art History on Wikipedia, a Macroscopic Observation Authors Doron Goldfarb Vienna University of Technology Max Arends Vienna University of Technology Josef Froschauer Vienna University of Technology Dieter Merkl Vienna University of Technology Source via arXiv (Full Text) The paper is also published in the Proceedings of […]