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ITAL: The Latest Issue of Information Technology and Libraries (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024) is Now Online
In This Issue of ITAL (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024): Editorials Letter from the Editors by Kenneth J. Varnum; Marisha C. Kelly Public Libraries Leading the Way How Kilgore Memorial Library Fostered County-Wide Collaboration through One Shared Calendar by Deb Robertson ITAL & … Beyond the Minimum: New Rule Requires Web Content (I’m Looking at […]
National Archives to Award $2.4 Million For Historical Records Projects
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The National Archives has approved $2,434,000 in awards for 30 historical records projects in 21 states, American Samoa, and the District of Columbia. The National Archives grants program is carried out with the advice and recommendations of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). A complete […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]
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Digital Preservation: “Act Now to Stop Millions of Research Papers From Disappearing”
From a Nature Editorial: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a […]
Library of Congress: “Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections”
From a LC Blog Post by Brian Foo: In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright restrictions or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. The public is not only free to enjoy and […]
Alabama: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section; Washington: ‘A Brutal Hit’: Everett Library Cuts Will Lead To Reduced Hours, Staffing; & More Headlines
Alabama Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Moves Books Out of Children’s Section (via WAAY) CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network Six New Collections Coming to Canadiana through the Call for Canadiana Collection Development Projects Internet New Research, Book Sets out How to Make Free Internet Access a Human right (via U. of Birmingham) Max Planck Digital Library […]
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Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
Research Paper (Preprint): “GREI Data Repository AI Taxonomy”
The paper linked below (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title GREI Data Repository AI Taxonomy Authors John Chodacki California Digital Library Mark Hanhel figsnare Stefano Iacus Dataverse Ryan Scherle Dryad Eric Olson Center for Open Science Nici Pfeiffer Center for Open Science Kristi Holmes Zenodo Mohammad Hosseini Zenodo Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.08054 Abstract […]
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New Report From OCLC and Partnership for Shared Book Collections: “Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada”
The report linked below was recently published by OCLC. Title Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada Authors Ian Bogus Research Collections and Preservation Consortium Rachel Frick OCLC Devon Smith OCLC Susan Stearns Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (Retired) Alison Wohlers California Digital Library, University of California Source […]
Digital Collections: National Archives (NARA) Digitizes Thousands of Images for Russell Lee Exhibit
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The exhibition Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey debuted at the National Archives in Washington, DC, on March 16, but the entire archival series is substantially larger than the 200 images on display. Archivists recently completed a months-long project to make the entire catalog digitally available to the public. […]
