MORE 'SLJ' POSTS
Privacy: Google is No Longer Mining Student Gmail (Official Statement)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Patrons and Users, School Libraries
|Note: This change in policy comes as no real surprise. The scanning of student Gmail accounts came out in a court filing early in 2014. Recently, Google also made changes to clarify how all Gmail is scanned. To be clear, Google never displayed ads with Apps for Education Gmail but was still scanning/mining the data for […]
Note: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) launched their Open Content Program last August with 4,600 hi-res images. Today, we’re reading about GRI making 77,000 more hi-res images available via the OCP. From the Iris Blog: The Getty Research Institute has just added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to the Open Content Program from two of its most often-used collections. […]
Data Privacy: inBloom, the Non-Profit Data Repository for Student Data Shutting Down
Associations and Organizations, Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Video Recordings
|From Education Week: Founded in 2011 with $100 million in support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom aimed to serve as a data repository for states and districts, storing and cleaning a wide range of student information, then making it available to district-approved third parties to […]
From the Findings/Summary: With the additional options of reading on your computer or your phone, these days it seems as though just about the only thing standing between Americans and a good read is setting aside the time. Americans seem to be embracing their broader options, as the majority (54%) currently read e-books, including two-thirds […]
Philadelphia: City Schools and Free Library Merge Databases and Give Nearly 100,00 Students Library Cards
Data Files, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From Newsworks/WHYY: The schools and the library have merged their databases and determined that roughly 98,000 of the school district’s 136,000 students do not yet have cards for the city’s public libraries. Based on that data merge, the library and the district will now distribute personalized library cards to every student without one. [Clip] “No […]
For some background on the email scanning issue take a look at this post from March 19th, “Google Admits to Data-Mining Student Emails.” From Reuters: Google updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software to create targeted ads. The revisions more explicitly spell out […]
Queens Public Library Board Votes Not to Suspend the Library’s Director, Thomas Galante
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Jobs, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From the NY Daily News: Following a five-hour meeting, much of it behind closed doors, the library’s board voted 9-9 not to force director Thomas Galante to take a leave of absence. The tie meant the motion to suspend did not carry. One board member, Terri Mangino, arrived from Florida at the last minute to […]
ALA Responds to Rep. Paul Ryan’s Budget Proposal That Recommends Elimination of IMLS
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|From the American Library Association: In a new budget released today from Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), the House Budget Committee Chairman denounces the critical role that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) plays in supporting civic engagement, literacy and lifelong learning in more than 123,000 libraries nationwide. Rep. Ryan recommends that the federal […]
We mentioned Ohio-based Findaway World about one month ago on infoDOCKET when 3M announced that 40,000 audiobooks were now available to Cloud Library partners. Findaway World powers the 3M Cloud Library audiobook service. Now, Findaway World is announcing that their AudioEngine audiobook distribution platform (what 3M, MackinVia Follett, and Baker & Taylor already utilize) is […]
From Today’s Announcement: Cengage Learning announced today that it has emerged from Chapter 11, having completed its financial restructuring. “We have used the restructuring process to significantly reduce debt and associated costs, and substantially improve our capital structure while continuing to meet the educational and research needs of our customers and end-users,” said Michael Hansen, […]