MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2015
From a CC Blog Post: Creative Commons believes that public and foundation funded resources should be openly licensed by default. We have written extensively about the importance of open licensing policies in government, foundations, and have built the Open Policy Network and the Institute for Open Leadership with our open policy partners around the world. […]
UPDATE October 26, 2015 The auto-update feature is now live via a collaboration between ORCID, Crossref, and DataCite. Learn More Here and Here (Including How to Opt-Out) —- From the Cross Tech Blog: In the next few weeks, authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published […]
From the Indianapolis Public Library: The Indianapolis Public Library and Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township have completed a first-ever initiative to provide all district public school students with Indy Library cards. It represents the first step toward the Library’s goal to provide a Library card to every public school student in Marion County. [Clip] […]
Video: Librarian, Developer, and Entrepreneur, Jason Griffey Discusses LibraryBox and Other Projects at Harvard’s Berkman Center
Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Video Recordings
|A few months ago we posted that a person well-known and respected in library circles, Jason Griffey, had been named a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Griffey is the founder of LibraryBox and was also the recipient of a $135,000 Knight News Challenge on Libraries grant for his “Measure the Future” project. […]
From the U.S. Census: [The HIV/AIDS Database] is a compilation of data from 219 countries and areas on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths. Major updates include new data for China, Nigeria, India, South Africa, and Namibia. The database focuses on HIV/AIDS surveillance data for countries and areas with at least 5,000 population, with the exception […]
Serious Funding and Staffing Problems For “Papers of Abraham Lincoln” Project & Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From Illinois Times: The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, which aims to digitize every document written by or read by the Great Emancipator, is in an existential crisis, the project’s director Thursday told an advisory board to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, where the project is headquartered. On orders from the governor’s office, […]
Improved Access: A New Public Library-Academic Library Partnership in Arkansas
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From a Joint Announcement: Library patrons will benefit from the latest partnership between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS). Through ArkReach, a new joint online program, UALR staff and students can use their university-issued library cards to borrow and return select materials from CALS without ever […]
From IMLS: Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew’s nomination to be director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was confirmed by the United States Senate on Tuesday night. The Institute, an independent United States government agency, is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. [Clip] Dr. Matthew […]
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) [recently] released Passenger Travel Facts and Figures 2015, a snapshot of the characteristics and trends of personal travel in the United States; the network over which passenger travel takes place; and the related economic, safety, and environmental implications. The 94-page […]
The article, “Predicting Course Outcomes With Digital Textbook Usage Data” is co-authored by Reynol Junco (Iowa State University and Berkman Center, Harvard University) and Candrianna Clem (University of Texas at Austin) and is is published in Internet and Higher Education. ISU has posted an overview with comments from Mr. Junco. A full text copy of […]