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 | Mellon Grants CLIR $4.27 Million for Program To Catalog Hidden Collections
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $4.27 million to conduct "a national competition" to identify and catalog hidden special collections and archives. CLIR officials said they will issue a request for proposals by early June, with the first round of winners to be announced in fall 2008. CLIR expects to distribute about $4 million in the first cycle. The awards will go to institutions holding collections of "high scholarly value that are difficult or impossible to locate through finding aids."
Award recipients will create descriptive information for their hidden collections that will be linked to and interoperable with all other projects funded by this grant to form a federated environment that can be built upon over time. CLIR Board chairperson Paula Kaufman said the program "underscores the importance of the hidden collections problem," while supporting a coordinated, national response.
CLIR is now forming a review panel to evaluate proposals and select award recipients. CLIR officials said scholars will comprise half of the ten-person evaluation panel; the remaining five spots will go to a library director from a university and another from a college, one expert in special collections and one in information technology, and CLIR's president.
Applicants, meanwhile, will be asked to provide information on the "scope and depth of the hidden collections, its disciplinary focus, its value to research, the type of media it includes, and other descriptive elements that will help the review panel assess the intellectual impact of cataloging and exposing these materials." Applicants must also address "long-term sustainability, additional sources of funding, and show evidence of institutional support.
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After DRM Standoff, MIT Libraries and SAE Reach Accord
One year after the MIT libraries, with the support of its faculty, dropped access to the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) Digital Library over the publisher's plan to employ restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, MIT has resumed access after SAE agreed to scrub the plan. The DRM issue flared last March when SAE announced it intended to require use of a plug-in, called FileOpen, to access content from the SAE Digital Library, as well as instituting download limits and a "drastic" increase in prices, noted MIT librarian Tracy Gabridge. MIT librarians argued that the restrictions also included curbed users from emailing or sharing documents and limited printing.
Although MIT dropped access after several "unpleasant" negotiating sessions, it kept the conversation going, involving faculty. Gabridge told the LJ Academic Newswire that several librarians were deeply involved throughout and that MIT faculty were instrumental in convincing SAE that the restrictions were a bad idea. "We interested a couple of our faculty in the cause who are Fellows of the SAE," Gabridge explained. "One in particular talked with colleagues at other universities and ultimately presented his objections to DRM at an SAE Publications Board Meeting last April at their national conference." Those objections led first to an immediate halt to implementing the DRM controls while SAE explored the situation furthers and eventually to this resolution. "Essentially we got the same agreement that we had before the whole DRM issue came up," Gabridge reported.
"Just last week we had a very pleasant call with the SAE where they reassured us about a few final questions we had." Gabridge told LJAN. "We are relieved that the situation has calmed down and that we are able to provide good, convenient access to SAE technical papers again."
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| Publishers Call for More Consultation Before NIH Implementation
At today's National Institutes of Health (NIH) public hearing on implementation of its public access policy, publishers reiterated their position that the copyright implications of the policy were not fully examined, and urged the NIH to consult further with publishers. NIH officials, meanwhile said they planned to stick with the April 7 implementation date for the policy, while considering submitted comments.
Association of American Publishers and Professional and Scholarly Publishing division (AAP/PSP) officials said that comments submitted this week (which will be made public) reiterated specific, lingering copyright concerns. "We feel strongly that there are numerous copyright concerns that were never examined by Congress and that must be addressed before the policy can go into effect," AAP counsel Allan Adler said in a statement, noting that the Congressional committee with jurisdiction over intellectual property rights was not consulted before the policy was passed in an appropriations bill.
In its March 17 comments (not yet posted), according to Adler, AAP/PSP outlined its specific copyright concerns, including "the piracy of U.S. government-funded research abroad," and urged the NIH to develop "specific safeguards and best practices to ensure that the day-to-day implementation of the policy adheres to its stated objectives and does not undermine copyright or the incentives for publishers to invest in the peer-reviewing, publishing, distribution and archiving of scientific articles."
Supporters of NIH's public access policy, meanwhile, maintain that Congress has fully considered the issues at stake. They also deny any copyright implications. Nevertheless, publishers' claims once again raise the potential for a legal challenge. Adler said he looked forward to working with NIH but said it was "critical that NIH undertake a more formal process to address all the concerns of all stakeholders in the research community and delay implementation until these concerns have been fully considered."
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| St. Bonaventure Library Vows To Finish New Wing Despite Donor's Default
St. Bonaventure University (SBU) officials say they are committed to finishing an addition to the Friedsam Memorial Library despite a major donor's default. According to reports in the Buffalo News, the addition is roughly 75 percent complete and set to open this fall even though donors Paul and Irene Bogoni-who pledged $2 million, and for whom the wing is currently named-informed SBU officials last fall that they would not pay the remainder of their pledge. SBU officials did not say how much had been paid, but the attorney for the couple told reporters that it was close to $900,000.
In a twist, the Bogonis also has filed suit in New York Supreme Court, seeking information about how his money has been spent. In a statement, he claimed that SBU has "changed the scope of the project far beyond what we originally intended" and that he has "asked for documentation and [has] received nothing worthwhile." University officials denied those accusations. John R. McGinley, chairman of the St. Bonaventure board, in a prepared statement, said the dispute was "unprecedented" at SBU. SBU spokesperson Emily Sinsabaugh, meanwhile, vowed the library project, designed to house SBU's 9000 rare books and manuscripts, would be finished. "We will find a way to fund the project," she told reporters.
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| Library 2.0 Gang Kicks Off
The first podcast in Library Journal's new Library 2.0 Gang roundtable series went live yesterday, riffing on topics explored at the Code4lib conference, including the Open Library-with the project's tech lead, Aaron Swartz as a guest-ILS APIs, and new cataloging influences.
Each month, the Library Gang will focus on a technology topic at issue in the library world. Library Gang regulars, drawn from the world where libraries and the technologies that influence them meet, include librarians John Blyberg, Nicole Engard, and Char Booth (all three are Library Journal Movers & Shakers), along with Carl Grant and Rob Styles.
"The community of librarian technologists is always focused on what's best for the user," said Josh Hadro, associate editor of technology for Library Journal. "I think the Library 2.0 Gang podcast series is a great format for generating some genuine discussion with experts from the field." The series is hosted by Richard Wallis, tech evangelist at UK's Talis, and produced by Talis in cooperation with Library Journal.
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Best Sellers in Philosophy, August 2007-present, as compiled by YBP Library Services
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American Transcendentalism: A History
Gura, Philip F.
Hill & Wang
2007. ISBN 0809034778 [9780809034772]. $27.50
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Search for Meaning: A Short History
Ford, Dennis
University of California Press
2007. ISBN 0520253000 [9780520253001]. $24.95
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Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World: From Relationships to Politics and War
Hinde, Robert A.
Oxford University Press
2007. ISBN 0199218978 [9780199218974]. $29.95
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Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies
Boundas, Constantin
Columbia University Press
2007. ISBN 0231142021 [9780231142021]. $75.00
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Death of Socrates
Wilson, Emily R.
Harvard University Press
2007. ISBN 0674026837 [9780674026834]. $19.95
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Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration
Griswold, Charles L.
Cambridge University Press
2007. ISBN 0521878829 [9780521878821]. $80.00
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Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Flanagan, Owen
MIT Press
2007. ISBN 026206264x [9780262062640]. $27.95
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On Ugliness
Eco, Umberto
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Rizzoli
2007. ISBN 0847829863 [9780847829866]. $45.00
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Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
Edwards, David
Harvard University Press
2008. ISBN 067402625x [9780674026254]. $19.95
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Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will
Murphy, Nancey
Oxford University Press
2007. ISBN 0199215391 [9780199215393]. $65.00
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Ethics of Care and Empathy
Slote, Michael
Routledge
2007. ISBN 0415772001 [9780415772006]. $90.00
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Objectivity
Daston, Lorraine
Zone Books
2007. ISBN 1890951781 [9781890951788]. $38.95
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Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows
Sorensen, Roy A.
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0195326571 [9780195326574]. $45.00
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Stoicism & Emotion
Graver, Margaret
University of Chicago Press
2007. ISBN 0226305570 [9780226305578]. $37.50
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Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Johnson, Mark
University of Chicago Press
2007. ISBN 0226401928 [9780226401928]. $32.00
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Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives
Sullivan, William
Cambridge University Press
2007. ISBN 0521873355 [9780521873352]. $80.00
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Little Philosophy Book
Solomon, Robert
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0195311132 [9780195311136]. $29.95
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Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy
Bracken, Christopher
University of Chicago Press
2007. ISBN 0226069907 [9780226069906]. $50.00
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John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of Hope
Fishman, Stephen
University of Illinois Press
2007. ISBN 0252032004 [9780252032004]. $35.00
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Social Philosophy After Adorno
Zuidervaart, Lambert
Cambridge University Press
2007. ISBN 0521870275 [9780521870276]. $80.00
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