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News Roundup (September 13, 2021)
Awards, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, News, Profiles, Roundup
|A Horrifying New AI App Swaps Women Into Porn Videos with a Click (via MIT Technology Review) Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul (via Ars Technica) Clarivate Announces Winner of Eugene Garfield Award 2021 ||| Read an Interview with the Winner Preprint Advocates Must Also Fight for Research integrity (via Nature) Wayne […]
From NASA: NASA’s Sea Level Change Team has created a sea level projection tool that makes extensive data on future sea level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) easily accessible to the public – and to everyone with a stake in planning for the changes to come. Pull up the tool’s layers of […]
Digital Collections: Calisphere, From the California Digital Library (CDL), Passes Two Million Digital Primary Resource Items, “Virtual Meeting” Backgrounds Now Available
Digital Collections, Frontiers, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, News
|From a CDL Blog Post: We are delighted to announce that Calisphere now provides access to over two million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources from the state of California’s remarkable digital collections. Explore early maps of the world; photographs from historical newspapers; paintings reflecting periods of cultural significance; personal journals and diaries […]
Research Resources: “New Health Equity Tool Tracks How the Pandemic is Affecting Communities”
Data Files, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Annie E. Casey Foundation: Called Health Equity Tracker, the new tool is designed to aid policymakers and leaders in identifying existing racial health inequities so that they can shift resources to the hardest hit communities. The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta launched the tracker, and the Annie […]
From The Drive: We are excited to announce the launch of our new interactive tool that maps and makes searchable thousands of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and unidentified aircraft incident reports. The vast dataset is drawn from information compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration. Some of the reports are highly unusual, going far beyond typical […]
Library Publishing Coalition Releases Library Publishing Directory Research Data Set & Posts Call for Entries For 2022 Library Publishing Directory and IFLA Global Library Publishing Map
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Publishing
|From the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC): Since 2014, the Library Publishing Directory has served as a yearly snapshot of the publishing endeavors of academic and research libraries. While the original intent of the project was to raise the profile of library publishing organizations and to underline the value of this work, over the course of […]
From Troy University (Troy, Alabama): In late June 1919, a young Army lieutenant from Camden, Alabama witnessed the signing of the agreement that ended World War I, an agreement he had helped draft as a member of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace. When he eventually made it back to the United States – […]
From the Pew Charitable Trusts: States differ in how they manage broadband deployment and which agencies or offices they task with identifying challenges, charting goals, and encouraging investment. Some states have a centralized office responsible for managing or coordinating broadband efforts. In others, multiple agencies have jurisdiction over broadband. More than half of states have […]
From the Transactional Records Clearinghouse/Syracuse University: According to Immigration Court data obtained by TRAC, the total immigration court backlog is currently 1,337,372 pending cases. However, those cases are not distributed evenly across the country and representation rates — one of the most important factors in case outcomes — varies widely. For the first time since […]
Major Upgrades Made to Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME)
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From a Council on Library and Information Resources Announcement: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Qatar National Library, and Stanford University Libraries today [June 21] announced several major improvements to the (DLME). The public, open DLME platform, released in July 2020, aggregates digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and […]