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New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
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From an OverDrive News Release: Librarians and educators achieved remarkable new milestones in 2024 by providing increasingly robust digital lending and streaming options to satisfy library patrons of all ages. Using OverDrive’s award-winning Libby and Sora apps, readers worldwide borrowed over 739 million ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines, a 17% increase over 2023. Streaming video […]
Report: “UK Library Releases Massive Holocaust Archive Online”
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From Agence France Presse (via Barrons): One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives was published online for the first time Monday, coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online portal includes more than 150,000 documents — such as photos, transcripts and testimonies — […]
Report: “Video Game History Foundation’s Long-Awaited Digital Library Will Be Available Next Week”
| Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From Eurogamer: Back in 2023, the Video Game History Foundation announced it was curating a digital library, which would allow users to access its vast collection of magazines, art books and more from the comfort of their homes. And while it didn’t pop a date on when it would be available to the public at […]
New Resource From ARL: “e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries”
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]
ITAL: The Latest Issue of Information Technology and Libraries (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024) is Now Online
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
In This Issue of ITAL (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024): Editorials Letter from the Editors by Kenneth J. Varnum; Marisha C. Kelly Public Libraries Leading the Way How Kilgore Memorial Library Fostered County-Wide Collaboration through One Shared Calendar by Deb Robertson ITAL & … Beyond the Minimum: New Rule Requires Web Content (I’m Looking at […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]
Library of Congress: “Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections”
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From a LC Blog Post by Brian Foo: In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright restrictions or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. The public is not only free to enjoy and […]
Alabama: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section; Washington: ‘A Brutal Hit’: Everett Library Cuts Will Lead To Reduced Hours, Staffing; & More Headlines
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Alabama Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section (via WAAY) CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network Six New Collections Coming to Canadiana through the Call for Canadiana Collection Development Projects Internet New Research, Book Sets out How to Make Free Internet Access a Human right (via U. of Birmingham) Max Planck Digital Library […]
Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Publishing
AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
Research Paper (Preprint): “GREI Data Repository AI Taxonomy”
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
The paper linked below (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title GREI Data Repository AI Taxonomy Authors John Chodacki California Digital Library Mark Hanhel figsnare Stefano Iacus Dataverse Ryan Scherle Dryad Eric Olson Center for Open Science Nici Pfeiffer Center for Open Science Kristi Holmes Zenodo Mohammad Hosseini Zenodo Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.08054 Abstract […]
