MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2017
Library of Congress Awards $27 Million (3-Year) Data Center, Migration Support Contract to Accenture
|From ExecutiveBiz: Accenture‘s federal services business has secured a potential three-year, $27.4 million contract to build a new data center for the Library of Congress as well as migrate the library’s current data center to new hosting environments. [Clip] The library said it aims to transition its existing Primary Computing Facility data center to a combination of hosting […]
From Stanford University: Stanford University Press is redefining the world of traditional academic publishing through an innovative publishing program. Stanford University Press is exploring new publishing channels for digital scholarship. Its digital publishing initiative is aimed toward helping scholars convey their ideas using emerging media and digital tools while conferring the same level of academic […]
1. Archive of Michael Ondaatje, Author of “The English Patient,” Acquired by UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center 2. University of Illinois Rare Book And Manuscript Library Acquires Papers of Poet Haki Madhubuti and Third World Press 3. Tony Marx, President of The New York Public Library, is C0-Chair of New Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy 4. […]
From the FBI: Violent crime increased for the second consecutive year, while property crime decreased for the 14th straight year, according to the FBI’s annual report on national crime statistics released today. There were an estimated 17,250 murders in the U.S. last year, an 8.6 percent increase from 2015. Overall violent crime rose 4.1 percent […]
From an Interesting and Useful Oxford University Press “Academic Insights” Guest Blog Post by Carol Tilley, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : Libraries and academic institutions have been slow to embrace comics in their collections and classrooms. Although there are outliers, US libraries only began to get […]
From Texas Public Radio: What began as a petition calling for more Hispanic and Latino representation in the mid-90s is now a full-service resource center in a prominent space in San Antonio’s iconic Central Library. [Clip] Previously housed in a cramped section on Central Library’s sixth floor, the collection was recently moved to a prominent […]
The following article appears in the latest issue of Open Praxis. Title Open Access Research via Collaborative Educational Blogging: A Case Study from Library & Information Science Authors Kristen Radsliff Rebmann San Jose State University Camden Bernard Clark University of Idaho Source Open Praxis Vol 9, No. 3 (2017) doi: 10.5944/openpraxis.9.3.665 Abstract This article charts […]
From the University of Washington Libraries: As of September 1, 2017 Librarians at the University of Washington will publish their research guided by an Open Access Policy for UW Librarians. The new policy promotes the visibility and accessibility of their scholarly work and makes their research freely available to users. The Association of Librarians of the […]
New Digital Collection: “Vancouver Archives Puts Thousands of Heritage Photos Online”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News
|From the Vancouver Courier: Vancouver heritage junkies, local history buffs and nosy neighbours, your cries have been heard. In an ambitious undertaking, staff at the City of Vancouver Archives have been busy digitizing nearly 7,000 black-and-white 35mm negatives — taken in 1978 and 1986 as part of two separate heritage surveys — for the public […]
PASIG 2017 took place in Oxford, UK from September 11-September 13, 2017 and was sponsored/organized by the Bodleian Libraries & Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge (DPOC). The complete conference program is available here. Slides from 41 presentations are available via Figshare. Hat Tip and Thanks: @natalieharrower