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Last month at the 2019 Charleston Conference, Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, was interviewed by Nancy Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota and Courtney McAllister, Electronic Resources Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University. Topics Discussed Include: Weaving Books into Wikipedia The Decentralized Web Acquisition of Better World Books Controlled Digital Lending More […]

The following research article (peer-reviewed) was published today by The Journal of Creative Library Practice. Title Adults Need STEM, Too: An Assessment of One Public Library’s Experiment With STEM Programming for Adults Author Jennifer Wilhelm Texas A&M University University Libraries Jessica Jones Branch Manager, Bryan + College Station Public Library System Source The Journal of […]

The following full text research article (preprint) is scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue (Vol. 20 No. 1) of portal: Libraries and the Academy published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Title E-Book Information Behaviors and Formats Among Graduate Students in Information Sciences Authors Daniel G. Tracy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Source portal: Libraries and the […]

From the Associated Press: History scholars are getting a new trove of priceless presidential papers to pore over at Southern California’s Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. The Huntington announced Thursday that 340 artifacts focusing on presidential administrations from the 18th to the 20th centuries are being donated by L. Dennis and Susan R. […]

From the University of Kentucky: This fall, the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center launched a custom digital library for the John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader (LHL) photographs collection. The site provides access to more than 13,000 digitized images with advanced search features, location mapping, an integrated collection guide viewer and more. The LHL collection consists […]

From an AIMS Blog Post: As of December 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 10,924,047 records! Almost 700,000 new records have been added, of which: 30,464 coming from Agricola of the United States National Agricultural Library 654,984 from more than 30 data providers The next AGRIS data release will take place in early January 2020. AGRIS includes […]

Elsevier Deal With France Disappoints Open-Access Advocates (via Science) In a Web Archives Frame of Mind: Improving Access and Describing the Collections (via The Signal/LOC) Open Science Strategy: TU Delft Aims at the Pole Position for the Open Era Tracking the Politics of US Privacy Legislation (via IAPP) Viet Nam: Modern University Libraries Serve Students’ […]

From MIT: The MIT Libraries, working with Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA), have developed the design for the upcoming Hayden Library renovation. As seen in architectural concept renderings, the new design accommodates the library’s multiple uses with dynamic areas for collaboration, research, and community-building, as well as quiet study. Reopening in fall 2020, the renovated library will […]

From ALA: Choice today announced the publication of the fifth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, “Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Where are We Today?”, offers a unique opportunity to revisit and re-examine findings from a 2012 ACRL […]