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From The Wire: K. VijayRaghavan is the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India. [Clip] Q. Based on one of your responses during the Q&A [during a recent presentation], it seems the Government of India is still committed to Plan S. There has been no explicit confirmation otherwise. You announced your support in a […]
UPDATE: CNN Coverage: Columbia’s Library Building Features The Names of Only Male Authors. After 3 Decades Of Trying, These Students Have Fixed That From The Columbia Spectator: In 1989, Laura Hotchkiss Brown, GS ’89, attempted to protest the lack of female inclusion in Columbia’s curriculum by hanging a banner above the names of male writers […]
Report: “University of Iowa Museums and Library Working Together to Preserve the Past”
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|From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: This year, both UI Libraries and Museum of Natural History have received grant money from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs to help preserve the past and make its study as accessible as possible. [Clip] The Darwin Turner Audio Collection is named after a former chair who headed up the […]
ALSC Selects Sacramento Public Library as Site for 2020 Arbuthnot Lecture Featuring Neil Gaiman
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|From the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)/ALA: The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced that the 2020 May Hill Arbuthnot committee has chosen Sacramento Public Library as the site of the 2020 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture featuring Neil Gaiman, a Newbery Medal author and library advocate. The 2020 Arbuthnot committee selected […]
Indiana University: “Archivists Learn How to Preserve Audiovisual Collections Despite Time, Technology and Tragedy”
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|From Indiana University: Fifty participants from archives and institutions all over the world were selected to attend the two-week [first Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School], which covered everything an archivist would need to know about handling an archival collection. Experts in the field from all over taught preservation, cataloging, digitization, copyright and more. The Biennial […]
Article: “Social Justice and the Medical Librarian”
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|The article linked below was presented by the author at the “Janet Doe Lecture on the history or philosophy of medical librarianship, presented at MLA ’18, the 118th Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc.; Atlanta, GA; May 18–23, 2018. Julia Sollenberger, AHIP, FMLA, the 2017 Janet Doe lecturer, gave the introduction.” From the Journal of […]
From Florida State University: The Florida State University Libraries has published an open access mathematics textbook in collaboration with Giray Ökten, associate chair for Graduate Studies and professor of mathematics at Florida State University. The textbook, “First Semester in Numerical Analysis with Julia,” was published thanks to an Alternative Textbook Grant Ökten received from FSU Libraries in […]
From the U. of New Mexico: A longtime advocate and employee of UNM University Libraries is donating his collection of rare George Orwell books. Russ Davidson, University of New Mexico professor and curator emeritus, is both an avid collector of Orwell books and a great supporter of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences. […]
Penn St. University: Conservation Centre’s Grand Opening Sparks New Era For University Libraries
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|From Penn St. University: To commemorate the newly opened Penn State University Libraries’ Conservation Centre, an open house and grand opening celebration on Thursday, April 25 attracted donors, colleagues, friends of the Libraries and special guests, including Penn State President Eric J. Barron and Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications Barbara I. Dewey. [Clip] […]
Digital Publishing Innovator Eases Access to Cornell University Material (Internet-First University Press)
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|From Cornell Chronicle: Buried somewhere in storage in the Physical Sciences Building was a 2003 interview between Nobel Prize-winner Hans Bethe, then 96 years old, and N. David Mermin, now the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus, as they discussed the early history of solid-state physics. That conversation contained valuable historical insights into two leading […]