MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2017
From AALL: Law library information budgets and full-time law library staff are both increasing, according to the AALL Biennial Salary Survey & Organizational Characteristics study conducted by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). The study, the 13th conducted by AALL, provides the only comprehensive, comparative salary information designed by and for legal information professionals […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports Book Publisher Sales Declined in July 2017 (downloaded Audio Only Category to See Increase)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing, Reports
|From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): About the Data Below Publisher net revenue is tracked monthly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and includes sales data from about 1,200 publishers. Figures represent publishers’ net revenue for the U.S. (i.e. what publishers sell to bookstores, direct to consumer, online venues, etc.), and are not […]
61 video recordings of author/poet/illustrator presentations/Q&A from the 2017 National Book Festival are now available online. The 2017 NBF was held in Washington, DC. on September 1, 2017. A playlist list with each video is embedded below. The festival’s web site and program are also available. You can also review the list here or here.
1. The New York Public Library Releases Best Books For Kids and Teens 2017 (Two Top 100 Lists) Best Books for Children (Intro Blog Post) ||| Complete List Best Books For Teens (Intro Blog Post) ||| Complete List 2. DPLA Announces New Curation Corps Members for Open Bookshelf 3. The Culture War Being Fought Over Tomorrow’s […]
New Article: Web Robot Detection in Academic Publishing
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
|The following paper (preprint) was recently made available on arXiv. Title Web Robot Detection in Academic Publishing Authors Athanasios Lagopoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grigorios Tsoumakas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Georgios Papadopoulos Atypon Systems Source via arXiv Abstract Recent industry reports assure the rise of web robots which comprise more than half of the total […]
From the Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA: A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula. It is intended to help coastal planners prepare for rising seas in the decades to come. All coastal cities will see […]
Video: An Archives Thanksgiving (at Yale University’s Beinecke Library)
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
|From a Beinecke LibraryV ideo Description (via YouTube): Happy Thanksgiving from the Beinecke Library! While food and beverages are strictly prohibited in the Beinecke Library’s reading room and classrooms, the library’s collections are full of objects, printed items, manuscripts, and other materials related to eating and drinking for readers to feast upon, even beyond the […]
From Motherboard: The idea of websites tracking users isn’t new, but research from Princeton University released last week indicates that online tracking is far more invasive than most users understand. In the first installment of a series titled “No Boundaries,” three researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) explain how third-party scripts that run on many of […]
From Open Corporates: OpenCorporates relies on the data we make available being converted into information by investigative journalists, researchers and analysts. While ensuring company data is easily accessible is a large enough task, the people who weave together narratives from that data are just as vital to our mission of fighting corruption and organised crime. This guide […]
“University of Calgary Librarian Fired Up as Massive EMI Music Collection Arrives in Calgary”
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, News, Preservation
|From the CBC: A University of Calgary librarian can’t hide her excitement over a massive music archive the school is in the process of acquiring. “It’s crazy fun. It’s super fun,” Annie Murray told CBC News. “It’s probably the most exciting collection I’ll ever work with, as a music fan, and then to also work […]