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From Duke University: Deborah Jakubs, the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs will retire in May 2022, following nearly four decades of service at Duke University. Jakubs, whose career at Duke began in 1983, was named University Librarian in 2005. During the last seventeen years, she has led Duke University […]

Update 2: Statement from Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) Welcoming New Exemptions to Section 1201 Update 1: Librarian of Congress Grants 1201 Exemption to Enable Text Data Mining Research (via Authors Alliance) From WIRED: Advocates for the blind are fighting an endless battle to access ebooks that sighted people take for granted, working against copyright law […]

From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in partnership with Reinvestment Fund, have released a new study, Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation’s Libraries and Museums, which examines the role of museums and libraries in promoting social wellbeing in communities across the United States. The multi-year, multi-market study found the presence […]

From the Museum of Modern Art: The Museum of Modern Art announces the transfer of the Warhol Film Archive from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Warhol Film Archive, established by the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be added to the MoMA Archives to serve as an ongoing resource for scholars. Established by […]

American Society of Civil Engineers, Annual Reviews, BioOne and the Geological Society Join Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (via Kudos) FCC Receives $1.3B in New Emergency Connectivity Fund Applications (via FCC) Millions of Open Cultural Heritage Resources From Europeana Now Easily Accessible Through WorldCat (via OCLC) New Research From Springer Nature on “Gold” Open Access (via […]

From an AOTUS Blog Post by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States: Thanks to the persistence and dedication of many NARA staff and the help of our partners, the number of digital copies of our records in the National Archives Catalog has just surpassed 150 million. Digitizing large quantities of our records is an […]

From a C4DISC Announcement: The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), formed to discuss and address issues of diversity and inclusion within our industry, has updated their Joint Statement of Principles. In principle and in practice, collectively, C4DISC member and partner organizations value and seek accessibility, diversity, and equitable and inclusive practices within […]

From Nature: One tactic predatory journals have used is to mimic longstanding legitimate journals online (or sometimes to acquire the titles). Predators rely on the journal’s reputation to collect fees1 without providing scholarly services. In August, scholar Anna Abalkina at the Free University of Berlin reported that a list of COVID-19 publications maintained by the […]

From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced $15,255,733 in American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act grants to institutions across 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to support the role of museums and libraries in recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 390 projects were […]