MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2017
Open-Sourced Pilot to Make US Government Info Available via Intelligent Personal Assistants Now Underway
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From the DigitalGov Blog: The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, […]
From NewsOK: A new partnership between Oklahoma State University and public libraries in four Oklahoma towns soon will provide broadband access in rural Oklahoma, the groups said Monday. The effort is led by OSU’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources along with the Elgin Community Library, the Rieger Memorial Library in Haskell, the Thomas-Willhite […]
From The Guardian: Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists with an army of volunteer community contributors. Wikitribune plans to pay for the reporters by raising money from a crowdfunding campaign. [Clip] Describing Wikitribune as “news by the people […]
LIS Education: Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Releases Strategic Plan 2017-2020
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From an ALISE Blog Post: To remain relevant and a vital part of library and information science education, the 2017-20 ALISE Strategic Plan has been crafted to address four strategic directions to meet the needs of existing and future members by expanding ALISE’s leading role in excellence in library and information science education scholarship and […]
1. FDR Library to Launch Holocaust Collections Project (via Poughkeepsie Journal) 2. Today is the 217th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Library of Congress: Selected Resources (via govinfo/GPO) 3. Milestones: LinkedIn Passes 500 Million Users in 200 Countries & Introduces a New Privacy Policy (via CW) 4. NCAC Demands Idaho Middle School Retain Popular Manga Novel in Library; UPDATE: Committee […]
From the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents) Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. surged more than one-third in 2016 and have jumped 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, ADL reports that there has been a […]
From the U. of Michigan Library: A new set of materials from Beatrice Welles will make the University of Michigan Library’s Orson Welles collection the world’s most comprehensive resource for Welles scholars and fans. The daughter of renowned indie filmmaker Orson Welles and Italian actress Paola Mori, Beatrice Welles had a particularly extraordinary childhood. She was […]
New From the National Center for Education Statistics: Approximately 72 percent of 2007-08 bachelor’s degree recipients had borrowed to pay for their postsecondary education (either undergraduate or graduate), and 63 percent of bachelor’s degree recipients still had student loan debt 4 years after completing their degree. The National Center for Education Statistics released a new […]
A “Standard of Standards”: NISO Releases Draft STS: Standards Tag Suite for Public Comment
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Publishing
|From the National Information Standards Organization (NISO): The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the release of a draft version of NISO Z39.102-201x, STS: Standards Tag Suite, for public comment. STS provides a common XML format that standards developers, publishers, and distributors can use to publish and exchange full-text content and metadata of standards. It […]
From Springer: Springer is partnering with Federica Weblearning, which is an academic platform devoted to innovation, experimentation and the dissemination of multimedia distance learning. The collaboration allows authors and lecturers several options of preparing both a textbook and a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on a particular topic. The MOOCs and books project invites authors […]