MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2014
From DOI News: The 100 millionth DOI has now been assigned, via the Entertainment Identifier Registry, a DOI-based registry of universal unique identifiers for movie and television assets. This significant milestone builds on earlier growth. The ten millionth DOI was assigned in August 2003 via another major Registration Agency, CrossRef, as a persistent, interoperable, and […]
National Library of Medicine Releases Rare Footage of President Franklin Roosevelt Speaking at NIH
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|From the National Library of Medicine: On October 31, 1940, just days before President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected to an unprecedented third term as President of the United States, he traveled to Bethesda to dedicate the National Cancer Institute and the new campus of what was then the National Institute of Health (NIH), […]
1. California: ‘Fault in Our Stars’ Banned From Middle Schools Banned in Riverside (via Press-Enterprise) Also available a clickable map of books challenged in California (via KQED) 2. Highland Park ISD Bans Books Because Sex (via Dallas Observer) and Highland Park ISD suspends seven books after parents protest their content (via Dallas Morning News) 3. […]
From The Getty Iris (Getty Research Institute): The Getty Research Institute has launched an expanded dealer stock book database that provides free online access to almost 24,000 records created from the Knoedler Gallery painting stock books. Books 1 through 6, dating from 1872 to 1920, are available now; stock books 7 through 11 will be […]
From Harris Interactive: September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the Harris Poll finds that 66% of American adults are either extremely (24%) or very (42%) satisfied with their public library. This number represents a seven percentage-point increase from the 59% of Americans who indicated the same in 2008. An additional two in ten (20%) […]
From the U.S. Census: College enrollment declined by close to half a million (463,000) between 2012 and 2013, marking the second year in a row that a drop of this magnitude has occurred. The cumulative two-year drop of 930,000 was larger than any college enrollment drop before the recent recession, according to U.S. Census Bureau […]
From PFSK: Growingbooks is an initiative started by Australians Jeremy Ward and Luke Hallaways that upcycles out-of-use books into charming home décor in the form of succulent planters. Simple and stylish, the company places cacti and other similar plants into the center of hardcover books, providing purpose for an otherwise unwanted item. These literary-inspired planters […]
From the Bertelsmann Announcement: Bertelsmann is expanding its activities in the fast-growing education business with a transaction in the United States: The international media company is acquiring a stake in the online education provider Udacity by contributing a significant portion of its Series C round financing. [Clip] Udacity was founded in Silicon Valley in 2011 […]
Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) in Search of New Executive Director
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|From the Job Posting: LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche/Association of European Research Libraries) represents over 400 member institutions and organisations from more than forty countries and is the principal association of European research libraries. LIBER has an exciting and dynamic future programme. Its current strategic goals are in the areas of scholarly communication […]
Note: The name JukePop might be a name you might recognize. Back in March we pointed out that the company had just started to collaborate with the Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD). Since then the company added another library organization, Califa, to their partner list. Today, a Fast Company article reports on a fundraising […]