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From CFPB: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today released an online tool to help renters and landlords impacted by the pandemic easily find and apply for payment assistance for rent, utilities and other expenses. The Rental Assistance Finder, available at www.consumerfinance.gov/renthelp, connects renters and landlords with the state and local programs that are distributing […]

From UCSF: UC San Francisco and The Atlantic have announced that the COVID Tracking Project, a crowdsourced digital archive documenting the face of the pandemic in the United States, will become part of the University’s permanent library collection and is accessible to researchers and the public. The project was a 15-month endeavor, powered by volunteers, […]

From The Canadian Press/CTV: The Supreme Court of Canada says a copyright collective cannot force York University to pay specific tariffs for the use of published works in the classroom. In its unanimous decision today, the high court says the law does not empower the Access Copyright collective to enforce royalty payments set out in […]

The following article (full text, open access) was recently published by the International Journal on Digital Libraries. Title Analysing the Requirements for an Open Research Knowledge Graph: Use Cases, Quality Requirements, and Construction Strategies Authors Arthur Brack Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Anett Hoppe Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Markus Stocker […]

From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 78 awards totaling $22,711,204 to support libraries across the country. The FY 2021 awards were made through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The awarded grants search on the IMLS website contains a complete list of grantees and project descriptions. “With the […]

From the National Archives and Records Administration: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has posted its new draft Strategic Plan and invites feedback from staff, public and government customers, stakeholders, and colleagues in the archival, historical, and records management communities. The draft plan reaffirms our current Mission, Vision, Values, Transformational Outcomes, and Strategic Goals […]

Call for Participation: The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (via Canadian Association of Research Libraries) National Library of Medicine Joins Instagram (via NLM Collections) New Wikipedia Preview Feature Provides Context from Wikipedia Across the Web (via Wikimedia Diff) Open Research Funders Group Files Comment in Response to OSTP’s Federal Scientific Integrity RFI (via ORFG) Pearson Introduces […]

From Nature: Nature often illustrates articles reporting on communities and countries that are under-represented in science using generic images, in part because universities, national libraries and commercial photo agencies hold relatively few images of people from such communities. Although we do our best to work with generic images in such situations, they tend to be […]

From LC: Created by artist and 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project. The app presents a unique mini collection of free-to-use items from the Library for students, teachers and learners to annotate through captions, drawings and other types of mark-making. As a special […]