MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2017
Research Library Issues (292) Now Available Online From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|Research Library Issues is published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Research Library Issues 292 (2017) Download Complete Issue (50 pages; PDF) Read Online/Download Individual Articles Full issue (1-50) Editor’s Note (RLI 292, 2017) Failure, Risk, and the Entrepreneurial Library n(RLI 292, 2017) Vignettes on the Value of Failure (RLI 292, 2017) A Quest to […]
From a CBDLF Blog Post: CBLDF [Comic Book Legal Defense Fund] has joined the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right to Read Project in calling for the restoration of BUCK: A Memoir by M.K. Asante to Baltimore County School District classrooms BUCK, which depicts the author’s turbulent upbringing in a low-income community in Philadelphia, was being used as supplemental reading […]
Conference Keynote Video: “The Case of the Biodiversity Heritage Library”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
|Nancy Gwinn, Director of Smithsonian Libraries, presented a keynote address titled, “How to Bring Millions Of Researchers to Your (Virtual) Doorstep: The Case of the Biodiversity Heritage Library” at the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference in Manchester, UK last month. This event was sponsored and organized by The National Archives and RLUK (Research Libraries UK). A […]
1. How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda (via Bloomberg) 2. New Material Added to Georgia Historic Newspaper Collection & Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection 3. PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) Will Be Permanently Offline as of February 23, 2018 (via NLM Tech Bulletin) ||| More Info/FAQ From PubMe Central Canada 4. Cultural Heritage: Top 20 Searches on Europeana […]
From the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (IASW): In November, ISAW submitted a final report to the National Endowment for the Humanities on the “Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri” project (DCLP). This report marked the end of a four-year-long collaborative initiative to launch the creation of a comprehensive, searchable digital collection of literary and subliterary […]
Ontario: St. Lawrence College Losing Librarian in the New Year, Part of “New Student Success Model”
|From GlobalNews.ca: When St. Lawrence College students have a hard time finding that key piece of information, they go to the library. More often than not they’ll speak with Jill Baker, the college librarian. But as of January 12th, all of that will change. The position of Librarian will be replaced by an Associate Director […]
National Archives (NARA) Awards $10 Million Contract to Unisys For Google Cloud-Based Email and Collaboration System
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Management and Leadership, News
|From Washington Technology: Unisys’ federal arm has received a potential five-year, $10 million contract to help the National Archives and Records Administration adopt a Google cloud-based email and collaboration system for the agency’s 5,300 employees and contractors. National Archives seeks unlimited storage, plus continued support for both records management and mobile device management through the […]
Digital Collection: California State Archives Releases Nearly 3,000 Newly Digitized Photos of Early 20th Century Life and Landmarks
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From the California Sec. of State: The California State Archives has completed one of its largest digitization projects ever. The collection features nearly 3,000 photographs taken by native Californians William M. and Grace McCarthy from approximately 1905 to 1938. The McCarthys traveled extensively during the early years of automobile travel, as newly constructed highways connected […]
From the NYC Landmark Preservation Council: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [recently] launched a new, enhanced version of its interactive map Discover NYC Landmarks that for the first time includes easily accessible and detailed information on each of the nearly 34,000 historic buildings within the City’s 141 historic districts. This release complements […]
The following article was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Title Data Discovery with DATS: Exemplar Adoptions and Lessons Learned Authors Alejandra N Gonzalez-Beltran Oxford e-Research Centre John Campbell Northrup Grumman Information Systems Patrick Dunn Northrup Grumman Information Systems Diana Guijarro UCSD Sanda Ionescu ICPSR Hyeoneui Kim UCSD Jared Lyle […]