MORE POSTS FROM 2015
New Digital Archives Online: Fordham University Launches “Bronx Black History Archives”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, News
|The following digital archive formally launched online about five weeks ago. From Fordham University: The stories of hundreds of Bronx African Americans who have transformed the borough’s character since the 1930s have been made public through a new digital archive at Fordham’s Bronx African American History Project. The archive, made available through the Department of […]
OOP Books: Mellon Foundation and NEH Award 10 Grants, More Than $700,000 For Humanities Open Book Program
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funders of humanities research in the United States, announced more than $700,000 in new grants today that will give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into free […]
The winner of the 2014 Gale/LJ Library of the Year, the Edmonton Public Library shares some of their 2015 accomplishments in this new 4.5 minute year-in-review video.
IMLS Posts Announcements For Second Cycle of Funding for FY 2016 National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|New online today. From the Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announces the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for the second cycle of FY 2016 National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG) and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21).: The NLG program will invest in projects […]
Peter Brantley on “Why James Billington’s Retirement is a Wake-Up Call for Librarians”
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From Peter Brantley’s Opinion Piece in Publisher’s Weekly: In hindsight, what is also disappointing is that library leaders in the United States failed to publicly push the Library of Congress into the digital realm. Billington’s leadership was openly labeled a farce in the aisles at ALA meetings, and he was privately lampooned as a fragile […]
From the Mendeley API Blog: Just over a month ago at the Mendeley Open Day, we launched Mendeley Data, and the number one requested feature has been to allow people to create and retrieve datasets via an API. In the spirit of this festive season, we’re offering the community a gift – now you can […]
American Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases Final Report on Library Liaison Roles
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|From an Announcement by ARL’s Judy Ruttenberg: The Association of Research Libraries is pleased to release the final report of a pilot Library Liaison Institute organized by Columbia University Libraries, Cornell University Libraries, and the University of Toronto Libraries, and held at Cornell University in June 2015. Nearly 50 liaison librarians from the three Association member […]
From the COAR (Conferedation of Open Access Repositories) Website: Over the last year, as part of the Aligning Repository Networks activities, COAR has been continuing to work on facilitating communication and greater interoperability of the major repository networks. Key events included a high-level meeting of senior representatives from around the world in Portugal in April […]
1. OhioLINK Adopts Ex Libris Rosetta for Digital Preservation 2. Two App Developers Settle FTC Charges They Violated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 3. Report: Elsevier Hopes to Launch Open Access Mega-Journal For Research From Africa in 2016 (via SciDev.Net) 4. Open Access: U.S. Department of Transportation Releases Public Access to Research Plan (via U.S. […]
The new resource is found at SunsetWx.com. From Penn St. University: The SunsetWx website contains maps that show how vivid a sunset or sunrise should be across the continental U.S., Canada and Mexico. The system outputs color-based qualitative data known as “units of vividness” rather than numerical data — by looking for warm colors on […]