July 14, 2024 by Gary Price
From Archives Portal Europe: DeCoSEAS project launch the web platform Pratinada.net, with 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. The web platform Pratinada.net hosts 7200 recordings online from Southeast Asia. It was created by the DeCoSEAS project (Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives) to make searchable and accessible online sound archives and collections related to music and sound (including interviews, speeches, […]
July 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau: A toolkit for public librarians can help them use data to communicate the value of their services and justify their funding needs. The Data Storytelling for Librarians Toolkit helps librarians present data in story form using narrative strategies. It was developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences professors. […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From PLA: The Public Library Association (PLA) today published the 2023 Public Library Technology Survey report. The national survey updates emerging trends around technology capacity, resources for patrons, infrastructure, digital literacy, and staffing in U.S. public libraries. This data is vital to understand how libraries serve as hubs of knowledge and innovation in our communities […]
July 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From Channel 6 (Tulsa): Radio IDL is responsible for one of the largest Blues and Black history sheet music collections in the nation. Now work is being done to archive and digitalize them. Kerry Kudlacek, also known as the “professor of blues” was a collector for 63 years. He said it is his dream to […]
July 7, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Infometrics. Title Analysis of the Distribution of Authorship by Gender in Scientific Output: A Global Perspective Authors Rodrigo Sánchez-Jiménez Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pablo Guerrero-Castillo SCImago Group Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote SCImago Group Gali Halevi SCImago Research Group Félix De-Moya-Anegón SCImago Research Group Source Journal […]
July 5, 2024 by Gary Price
LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2024 Annual Conference took place in Limassol, Cyprus from July 3 -July 5, 2024. Video recordings of keynotes, panel sessions are linked below. We will update this post if/when more video recordings become available. The theme of the 2024 conference was “State-Of-The-Art Libraries in the Service of Science and […]
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July 3, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of the American Planning Association. Title Libraries Are Resilience: Hubs Evidence From the Midwest Authors Lucie Laurian University at Buffalo Evan Doyle University of Iowa Iulian Vamanu University of Iowa Kara Logsden University of Iowa Source Journal of the American Planning Association (2024) DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2024.2343670 […]
July 3, 2024 by Gary Price
Direct to Full Text Report and Executive Summary (via Zenodo) From a Coalition S Release: cOAlition S is pleased to welcome the release of a comprehensive report detailing the findings of a global consultation with the research community on the “Towards Responsible Publishing” (TRP) proposal. The TRP proposal prepared by cOAlition S presents a vision for […]
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July 2, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was published today in the July, 2024 issue of College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Title Use and Importance of Library Resources to Support Faculty Research and Productivity Authors Jung Mi Scoulas University of Illinois Chicago Sandra L. De Groote University of Illinois Chicago Source College & Research Libraries (C&RL) Vol 85, […]
July 2, 2024 by Gary Price
The latest episode of the MSNBC podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast” features a conversation with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney. It runs 57:40. Description Could the future be completely different? Our guests this week say so. Megapublishers are suing the Internet Archive, perhaps best known for its Wayback Machine, to redefine […]