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Meet Vivian Li, the 2025 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, News
From the Library of Congress: The Library has appointed Seattle-based artist and developer Vivian Li as its 2025 innovator in residence. For her project, “Anywhere Adventures,” Li will work with Library staff to highlight unique, amusing and awe-inspiring collection items that enable young researchers to discover the Library’s online resources about their own communities. Through […]
A New Resource From DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy Group: “#DLFteach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacies”
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
From a DLF (Digital Library Federation) Post: We are excited to announce the release of #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacies, an open-access resource designed to support both information professionals and educators. With a thematic focus on critical digital literacies, Volume 4 of the Toolkit offers adaptable lesson plans and learning objects that help learners develop […]
JSTOR: Latin American Open Access Ebook Pilot Expands Impact With 120 Titles From Prometeo Editorial; MPDL: 25 Years of Scientific Information Provision; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
American Library Association (ALA) Project Outcome for Academic Libraries 2024 Report JSTOR Latin American Open Access Ebook Pilot Expands Impact With 120 Titles From Prometeo Editorial Library Publishing Forum 2025 Library Publishing Forum Call For Proposals Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) 25 Years of Scientific Information Provision
UC-wide Protocols.io Pilot: A Five-Year Journey to Promote Research Reproducibility; Measuring Environmental Impact at CLOCKSS; & More Headlines
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British Library Restoring Our Services – 10 October 2024 Update Canada Open Access in Canada: 10 Years of Partnership Between CRKN and Érudit CLIR/DLF Jennifer Ferretti to Depart CLIR’s Digital Library Federation, Takes on New Role as Director of Archives at Texas After Violence Project CLOCKSS Measuring Environmental Impact at CLOCKSS International Federation of Library Associations […]
NARA: “Kenvi Phillips, New Obama Library Director, Puts Emphasis on Access”
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The first primarily digital Presidential Library presents an exciting opportunity to broaden outreach and increase access to the records, according to the Barack Obama Presidential Library’s first permanent director. Dr. Kenvi Phillips took up her duties on June 16, 2024. Three months into her tenure, she talked to National […]
ITHAKA Invests in Perlego to Make Course Materials Accessible and Affordable
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
From an ITHAKA Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA is investing in Perlego, a company dedicated to making knowledge more accessible. Perlego, founded in 2017, provides students around the world with affordable access to a digital library of over 1 million textbooks. To date, over 500,000 students have used Perlego in their coursework. Perlego’s impact is meaningful. Studies […]
Digital Collections: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Announces Digitization of Neil Armstrong’s Paper Speeches
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From Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (Full Text): Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is pleased to announce the digitization of paper transcripts used by Neil Armstong for his public addresses and select speeches. The nearly 500 transcripts—totaling 7,700 pages—were generously donated by his wife, Carol Armstrong, in 2011. The speeches are […]
Digital Collections: Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public For First Time by The Royal Society, Over 1600 Reports Posted Today
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, News, Reports
From The Royal Society: The Royal Society has today released over 1,600 historical peer review reports, available to view publicly for the first time on the Science in the Making portal. Readers can discover what eminent scientists thought of work by mathematician Alan Turing, as well as Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Crick and Watson’s famous “DNA” paper. […]
Digital Collections: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online From the Library of Congress
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From the Library of Congress: A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organization’s work as it combated racial discrimination in the […]
Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County Prison OKs Contract For Digital Library, Bolstering Inmate Reading Options
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From The Times-Tribune: Lackawanna County Prison inmates will have free digital access to e-books and audio books offered by more than 5,000 publishers under a contract the county prison board approved this week. The board voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize the use of OverDrive, a digital library product inmates will soon be able to access […]
