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Texas: “Llano County Libraries Case Has Lawyers and Publishers Worried About Existing Legal Precedents”
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|From The Texas Tribune: For decades, public libraries across the country — and their staffs — have operated under a modern understanding of court rulings that say books and other materials cannot be removed simply because government officials do not like the ideas they contain. But as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers a […]
From a PEN America Interview by Lisa Tolin: Art Spiegelman was shocked last year to hear that Maus, his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, had been banned in a school district in Tennessee. Even more surprising was the rationale — not the violent history of his parents’ journey to Auschwitz chronicled in the memoir, […]
New Collection: Library and Archives Canada Acquires 100 Environmental Interviews
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|From a LAC Announcement Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has just enriched its collections with a new acquisition: a series of environmental interviews entitled “The Green Interview.” This series includes about 100 interviews with prominent personalities, and six documentaries on the future of life on the planet and humanity’s collective responsibility to protect it. Canadians […]
From CBS News (via YouTube): Poet and author Amanda Gorman joins “CBS Mornings” for her first interview since her poem and book, “The Hill We Climb,” was restricted by a Florida elementary school. She shares her initial reaction to the ban, why she believes restricting books keeps history from children and how she got involved […]
New Report: “Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project ”
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|The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research. Title Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project Authors Chela Scott Weber Senior Program Officer Itza A. Carbajal Associate Researcher Lesley A. Langa Associate Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway Executive Director, Research Brooke Doyle Senior Project Coordinator […]
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Joan Lippincott is Associate Executive Director Emerita at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). In this interview, she discusses the Directions in Digital Scholarships initiative, which explores the current and future state of digital scholarship, data-intensive research, and computational research. Text Transcript
From Jisc: For the first time, UKRI-funded report brings together views of 15 major stakeholders from across the UK research community. To gain an unprecedented insight into the UK’s academic research infrastructure assets, Jisc has collected the views of leading bodies from across the sector. The new report, Optimising the UK’s university research infrastructure assets, […]
A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): Sayeed Choudhury is Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. In this conversation, Choudhury discusses his new role—created to raise awareness of and stimulate collaboration among open-source projects across the university—and the impact of this new office on his […]
New Podcast From CNI: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age, a Conversation with MacKenzie Smith
|A new podcast in The CNI Interviews Podcast series (via EDUCAUSE): MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship at UC Davis, discusses her career and her efforts to encourage women to get involved in technology. Smith also talks about the challenges of building a technologically sophisticated, flexible, and equitable library and her […]
From a ScholCommLab Blog Post: In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear how widespread data reuse and citation practices are within academic disciplines, and why scientists cite—or do not cite—data in their research work. In a recent preprint from the Meaningful Data Counts project, Kathleen Gregory (postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna […]