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Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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|Note: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement: The Mellon Foundation has awarded GBH $16 million to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a GBH collaboration with the Library of Congress, to digitize, preserve and make accessible historically […]
NLM: “Next Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon”
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|From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: Last month, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced plans to extend its NIH Preprint Pilot in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed beyond COVID-19 to encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-funded research. The second phase of the pilot, launching later this month, will include preprints supported by an NIH […]
Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Announces $28.1 Million for 204 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From a NEH Announcement: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $28.1 million in grants for 204 humanities projects across the country. These include the expansion of the “Mapping Color in History” portal, which allows art historians to track historical and scientific data on paint pigments used in South Asian and Himalayan art, and […]
Adobe Quietly Taps User Content to Train its ML Tools A New Tool Helps Map Out Where to Develop Clean Energy Infrastructure (via ANL) Mellon Awards CLIR $4 Million to Extend Recordings at Risk Grant Program National Museum of American History Will Preserve Alexander Graham Bell’s Experimental Sound Recordings (via Smithsonian) UK Distributed Print Book […]
Boston Public Library Wraps Up 2022; WebJunction Wrap-Up; and More Headlines
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|Angel Peterson Receives the 2022 Library Publishing Coalition Award for Exemplary Service (via LPC) Boston Public Library Wraps Up 2022 (via BPL) Book Disasters: Two Centuries of Rare Book Loss (via FineBooks) How Much Do APCs Cost French Research Institutions? (via Ministere De L’enseignement Superieur Et De La Recherche) IMLS Now Accepting Applications For Native […]
From a Blog Post (about 8400 words) by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain: On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final […]
Library of Congress: 25 Eclectic Films Chosen for National Film Registry; 2022 Entries Include Iron Man, Hairspray, When Harry Met Sally, The Little Mermaid, and Carrie
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|From LC: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, the newest selections include a vibrant diversity of American filmmakers, as […]
A New Library Impact Research Report From ARL: “A Toolkit for Demonstrating and Measuring Impact of Primary Sources in Teaching and Learning”
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|From the Assoc. of Research Libraries: As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System addressed how special collections support teaching, learning, and research. This project developed a toolkit that allows measurement of impact of engagement with primary sources. The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) initially worked with University of […]
Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and More News Headlines
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|Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ICYMI: ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall’s Literarian Award Acceptance Speech Library Associations Share Community Response to White House Memorandum on Public-Access to Research (via ARL)
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier; 2022 Urban Libraries Council Annual Forum Recap; and More Headlines
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|ALA Invites Applications for Fourth Annual Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces Pocket Burgundy Awards Price Change: Dryad Updates Fee For Authors (via Dryad News) Springer Nature Completes Acquisition of Research Square […]