MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2016
Pensacola: West Florida Public Library System Will Waive Fines in Exchange For Blood Donation
Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
|From the Pensacola News Journal: On Tuesday, the main public library in downtown Pensacola will offer patrons a little extra incentive to donate blood by offering to waive library fines up to $50 in exchange for their donation. [Clip] “Typically, a patron will run up several late fees, and then will end up not returning to the library,” [John] Shelton, […]
From WCBD: A Charleston County Public Library branch [was] renamed [yesterday] and dedicated in honor of Cynthia Graham Hurd – a 31-year library employee who died in the Emanuel AME church shooting in June 2015. Charleston County Council, with support of the Library’s Board of Trustees, agreed to rename the [St. Andrews Regional Library] building to honor […]
A New Global Framework For Linking Data And Literature: RDA And ICSU-WDS Announce the Scholix Framework
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, News, Publishing
|From The Research Data Alliance: The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the International Council for Science World Data System (ICSU-WDS) announce a new global framework for linking publications and datasets. The Scholix framework — Scholarly Link Exchange — represents a set of aspirational principles and practical guidelines to support a global information ecosystem around links […]
Privacy: FTC Says Mobile Ad Provider Tracked Hundreds of Millions of Consumers’ Locations Without Permission
Conference Presentations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Federal Trade Commission: Singapore-based mobile advertising company InMobi will pay $950,000 in civil penalties and implement a comprehensive privacy program to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it deceptively tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers – including children – without their knowledge or consent to serve them geo-targeted advertising. The FTC […]
From the Annie E. Casey Foundation: The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds today’s youth — Generation Z — are healthier and completing high school on time despite mounting economic inequality and increasingly unaffordable college tuition. Aided by smart policies and investments in prevention, a record number of teens are making positive choices. […]
New Partnership: Ebooks From FamilySearch.org Will Soon Be Discoverable via DPLA
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From Today’s DPLA Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users… [Clip] With this new partnership, DPLA will incorporate metadata from FamilySearch.org’s online digital book collection that […]
From a ProQuest Announcement Alexander Street, a leading provider of streaming videos and music as well as award-winning primary source collections to libraries around the world, has joined the ProQuest family of companies. [Clip] The acquisition brings together Alexander Street’s valuable video, music and unique primary source collections with ProQuest’s extensive aggregation of content, which […]
Huntington Library Announces Crowdsourcing Project to Transcribe Civil War Telegrams (Decoding Civil War Project)
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From the HL: In a move to gain new insights into the U.S. Civil War, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today the public launch of an innovative crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decipher a collection of nearly 16,000 Civil War telegrams between Abraham Lincoln, his Cabinet, and officers of the Union […]
News Roundup
Associations and Organizations, Ex Libris, News, Productivity, Roundup, Video Recordings
|1. UK: Copyright Licensing Agency and Ex Libris Collaborate to Facilitate Distribution of Digitized Content to Students 2. You Can Now Share Video From Several Services (Including YouTube) in Tumblr Posts 3. Hong Kong Bookseller Speaking Out on Eight-Month Detention in China (via CBLDF) 4. Dropbox Adds New Productivity Features
From Smithsonian Insider: A silver-and-wood teapot crafted by African American master silversmith Peter Bentzon in Philadelphia between 1817 and 1829 is one of the prized objects in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Today is special however for this teapot as images and information revealing its remarkable craftsmanship become […]