MORE 'ASSOCIATIONS-ORGANIZATIONS' POSTS
You can take a look by visiting the DOAJ site at: http://www.doaj.org/ Peter Suber’s Open Access Tracking Project links to an SPARC/ARL mailing list posting with some details: Now there are more than 6300 journals from more than 110 countries in more than 50 languages in the DOAJ. More than 2500 journals are providing metadata […]
Pass It On: Preservation Week 2011 Begins in Less Than One Month
Associations and Organizations, Government Libraries, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Pass It On: Preservation Week April 24–30, 2011 Some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As […]
New from the OCLC Library/OCLC Research: The Global Library Statistics Web Page
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|Cool! Here’s a new resource about libraries that will very likely make a lot of people very happy! It’s brand new from OCLC! Make sure to pass this one along to colleagues. From a Post by Larry Olszewski on the OCLC Cooperative Blog: As Director of the OCLC Library, I get to see lots of […]
Canadian Library Association: Stephen Abram Presented With the 2011 Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Gale, Journal Articles, Lecture, Libraries, News
|We can’t think of a more deserving person than Stephen for this award. Those who know him realized a long time ago that service to librarianship and Stephen Abram are synonymous. From meeting with info pros around the world to mentoring new librarians Stephen does whatever is needed whenever and wherever it’s needed. On top […]
“How Libraries Add Value to Their Communities” Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & America Life Project Presented at Computers In Libraries, March 2011 The Net, smartphones, and other technologies have added to the way people can engage with so much to local communities and wider communities of interest. Yet, there are many gaps. […]
Research Library Issues (#274) is Now Online
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|From the TOC: The Future of the US Research University David Shulenburger, Senior Fellow, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Dr. Shulenburger’s presentation was originally delivered at the Association of Research Libraries’ Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on October 14, 2010. To listen to audio from this presentation and access additional information, please visit http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/157mm-proceedings.shtml […]
New today! Direct to EQUACC Web Site From ALA’s District Dispatch: “We have arrived at a critical juncture in history,” said Jacqueline Rafferty, President, Massachusetts Library Association & Chapter Councilor to ALA. “The rapid proliferation of electronic content (e-content), combined with library inaccessibility to e-content, is undermining the historic library missions of providing equitable access […]
From ARL: "New Roles for Research Libraries Digital Curation for Preservation Webcast (Free)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
|Registration Now Open For Free Webcast From an ARL Announcement: To complement the recently released report in the New Roles for New Times series, “Digital Curation for Preservation, (PDF)” the Association of Research Libraries is offering a free and open webcast, “New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation.” The webcast [on April 7, […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
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|UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
From an ALA District Dispatch Announcement (11 pages; PDF) The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released comments on the latest version of a draft treaty on traditional cultural expressions (TCE), a legal instrument that seeks to protect and manage folklore and other cultural expression by Western copyright laws. The LCA finds the categorization of traditional cultural […]