MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2021
“Rider Librarian Uses Fulbright Award to Modernize Kosovo Library System”
Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From Rider University: Through a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award — her second — Sharon Yang helped network 48 libraries throughout Kosovo and create a shared library computer system. Yang traveled to Kosovo from Oct. 16 to Nov. 6 to complete the project at the National Library of Kosovo “Pjeter Bogdani.” Yang says the country is […]
National Museum of African American History and Culture Launches New “Searchable Museum” Digital Initiative
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Podcasts, Preservation
|From the Smithsonian: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) launched its newest digital initiative, the Searchable Museum [on November 18th]. As part of the museum’s fifth anniversary, NMAAHC continues to engage audiences worldwide with online exhibitions, virtual symposia and digital programs. The Searchable Museum reaches beyond the walls of the […]
Amazon Wages Secret War on Americans’ Privacy, Documents Show (via Reuters) Association of American Publishers Announces Expanded Focus on Two Key Areas: Climate and Sustainability & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (via AAP) Newspaper Editorial: “Censoring Books at Schools and #Libraries is Never a Good Idea” (via Chicago Sun-Times)
Kevin Garewal Named Dean of University of Rochester Libraries
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports, School Libraries, Special Libraries
|From the University of Rochester: Kevin Garewal, associate director of collections at Harvard Law School Library, has been named vice provost and Andrew H. & Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of University of Rochester Libraries. He will begin in this role in February 2022. Interim Provost Sarah Peyre announced Garewal’s appointment, which follows a four-month national […]
From The Ohio St. University Libraries: Graduate student Lucía Aja López recently completed an examination of unique Latin American holdings in University Libraries’ Special Collections to help surface inaccurate representations of indigenous languages and cultures. “Our understanding of indigenous culture has been distorted by a colonialist lens, since the materials that we have about the […]
From WSFA: WSFA 12 News and the Alabama Department of Archives and History [ADAH] are proud to announce a partnership that will help preserve and make accessible to the public much of the station’s historic footage, which spans the decades from the 1950s to the early 2000s. [Clip] WSFA’s newsroom cabinets were filled from floor […]
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Anna Eshoo Send Letters to Nine Aggregators Regarding “Expensive, Restrictive E-Book Lending Contracts with Libraries”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Elsevier, Gale, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., today sought answers about expensive, restrictive e-book lending contracts with libraries, in letters to nine e-book aggregators and platforms. Aggregators are middlemen that license e-books to libraries on behalf of book publishers, and can also develop the e-lending platforms used […]
From Roll Call: It took Jason Broughton more than a dozen years to find his calling. The then-Florida biology teacher left his job in 2008 to return to South Carolina to care for his ailing mother. He eventually got a job as a workforce trainer for Charleston’s government, giving talks across the city. Sometimes he […]
University of Pennsylvania: “How Penn’s Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better”
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From Penn Libraries: “Linked data is the language of the web,” says Beth Camden, Director of Information Processing. “It’s building the infrastructure that makes the web better.” For the past year, Camden and a team of linked data editors, including Digital Library Strategist and Metadata Architect John Mark Ockerbloom and Head of Metadata Research Jim […]
The article linked below was recently published by RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Title Privacy in Public Archives: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Special Collections Author Zachary G. Stein University of Louisiana at Lafayette Source RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage Vol 22, No 2 (2021) […]