MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2017
From ESRI: Esri [recently] announced that its innovative Ecological Marine Units (EMU) app [free] is now available for mobile devices. The app provides a valuable resource for scientists, educators, governments, and industries seeking easily accessible information and imagery about the ocean’s long-term physical and nutrient properties. The EMU app puts data such as temperature, salinity, […]
From News.com: The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday published the text of its proposal to roll back the agency’s net neutrality rules, allowing the public to comment on the new plan. The agency’s commissioners voted along party lines in support of the proposal, which aims to fulfill FCC Chairman FCC Ajit Pai’s promise to eliminate […]
From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): The Social Web Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Micropub. Micropub is a client-to-server protocol used to create, update and delete social networking content. Web and native apps can use Micropub to post notes, photos, events, and many others to servers that support the protocol. Users […]
From the Mendeley Blog: Mendeley Data is pleased to announce that we’ve adopted the new Google Science Datasets markup standard for datasets. For the non-computer science buffs amongst us, this means we describe our datasets in a structured way recognised by Google – which helps Google to index our datasets, and makes them more readily available […]
From The FOIA Project: The latest available case-by-case records from the federal courts show that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits challenging the withholding of records have risen since President Trump assumed office. The number of recorded FOIA filings in April climbed to 63 – the highest level recorded for at least 25 years. And […]
From NARA: The FY 2018 budget of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requests $376 million in discretionary appropriations. This is a decrease of -$24 million from the annualized rate of operations in the FY 2017 Continuing Resolution (CR). Within the aggregate request, $364 million is requested for the Operating Expenses appropriation, $4.2 million […]
1. Meet Christopher Shaffer, New Head Librarian at University of California San Francisco (via UCSF News Service) 2. Q&A with University of Colorado Boulder James Williams on His Tenure as Dean of Libraries (via UC Boulder) 3. An “Enhanced” Artstor on an Updated Platform Launching This Summer (via Support. Artstor) 4. Barbara Meyers Ford Named New Director of Marketing […]
Michele Kimpton Named Interim Executive Director at DPLA
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From the Digital Public Library of America: As part of DPLA’s ongoing transition to a new executive director, the Board of Directors has named Michele Kimpton the interim executive director until a new executive director is hired. Kimpton is currently the Business Development Director and Senior Strategist at DPLA, and has been working on sustainability models, an ebook […]
Ex Libris President Matti Shem Tov Named New CEO of ProQuest
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|Here’s the full text of today’s change of leadership announcement that we just received: Matti Shem Tov, President of Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, will succeed Kurt Sanford as CEO of ProQuest in 2017. ProQuest’s success under Mr. Sanford’s direction and the development of a strong leadership team set the stage for Mr. Shem Tov to […]
President Donald Trump’s FY2018 Budget Cuts Nearly All Funding for IMLS, NEA, NEH, CPB
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|UPDATE: New FAQ: IMLS Releases “FY 2018 IMLS Budget Frequently Asked Questions” While it’s hardly a surprise we’re nevertheless sad to report that the just released FY2018 Budget of the United submitted to Congress by President Trump eliminates nearly all funding for IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), […]