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ALA Sends Letter to President Obama Urging Him to Select a Librarian as Next Librarian of Congress
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|We were very happy to read the letter (we’ve posted it below) from ALA President Courtney Young to President Obama urging him to select a professional librarian as the next Librarian of Congress. There are many highly qualified librarian candidates that have all of the required skills required to lead LC. As we recently pointed […]
Collaboration: Library and Archives Canada & University of Ottawa Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Preservation, Resources, School Libraries
|From Today’s Announcement: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the University of Ottawa will collaborate in several key areas over the next five years to share expertise, knowledge and technology as well as support research and outreach initiatives. This unique agreement—the first of its kind signed with a Canadian university—was announced today by Librarian and […]
Credo, Gale, IEEE, and SAGE Announce Support For NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI)
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Gale, Journal Articles, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a Joint Announcement: In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers — Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE – today, publically disclose their support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). In NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (RP-19-2014), content providers […]
From a LAPL Central Library Blog Post: An excellent and informative blog post LAPL Librarian Linda Rudell-Betts explaining why she worked to get the library to update the classification (Dewey number) (from DDC 14th ed. to DDC 22nd ed.) and then move the items to a new location on library shelves. Kudos Linda! Kudos LAPL. […]
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Receives $7.5 Million Increase in Funding
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
|Here’s something you don’t see all that often these day, a sizable increase in funding for libraries. From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The 84th Texas Legislature has increased the appropriation of the State Library and Archives Commission [TSLAC] by $7.6M for the 2016-2017 biennium. The new funding includes resources to launch the […]
History: “Seven Sisters Partners Launch New Archives Project: College Women”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Resources, School Libraries
|From the Seven Sisters Project News Release With the support of a one-year Foundations planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the seven women’s colleges once known as the “Seven Sisters” launch College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education. College Women brings together—for the first time online—digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks […]
From UNESCO: UNESCO presented its new publication “Countering Online Hate Speech” during the conference on Youth and the Internet: Fighting Radicalization and Extremism held in UNESCO Paris Headquarters on 16 and 17 June 2015. This publication is part of the ongoing UNESCO Series on Internet Freedom. The study has been developed in cooperation with the […]
Video: Webinar by Authors of the New Book “Library Linked Data in the Cloud”
Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources, Video Recordings
|Here’s a webinar by three members of the OCLC Research team and and the authors of a the new book, Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC’s Experiments with New Models of Resource Description. The webinar was recorded on May 21, 2015 and made available on YouTube yesterday. It runs about one hour. About the […]
Boston Public Library Appoints David Leonard, Interim Library President & John Hailer, Interim Board Chair
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Resources, School Libraries
|From the Boston Public Library: Today, the Boston Public Library (BPL) Board of Trustees voted to appoint David Leonard, the current Director of Administration and Technology at the Boston Public Library, to the position of Interim President of the BPL. Leonard joined the Library as Chief Technology Officer in July of 2009 and will step […]
Digital Divide: Two U.S. Senators Introduce “Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015”
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources, School Libraries
|UPDATE: ALA President Courtney Young has commented about the introduction of the legislation. We’ve posted the full text of her statement at the bottom of this post. From Today’s Joint Announcement: Today, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) introduced the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015, major legislation that would support […]