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From Harvard Gazette: For decades, Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has been the nation’s leading repository for a range of primary-source materials documenting the lives and legacies of women in America. Its collections are crammed with letters and posters, journals and photographs — the physical records of an individual, a family, a social action, a political campaign. […]

From KFF: A new interactive database from KFF’s Kaiser Health News (KHN) and Guardian US reveals that many of the more than 900 U.S. health care workers who have died in the fight against COVID-19 worked in facilities with shortages of protective equipment such as gowns, masks, gloves and face shields. People of color and nurses […]

From the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites the public to provide input and help shape the continuing implementation of its strategic plan through 2027 by responding to this Request for Information (RFI). As one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health, NLM leads, conducts, […]

From SAA: In Season 4 [of the Archives in Context” podcast, released August 2020, hosts Chris Burns, Ashley Levine, Nicole Milano, and Anna Trammell interview authors, editors, and educators who have developed new tools and resources for implementing archival practices that are ethical, accessible, and inclusive and who are expanding the conversation on leadership, preservation, […]

The full text article linked to below was published today (August 11, 2020) in International Journal on Digital Libraries. Title Citation Recommendation: Approaches and Datasets Authors Michael Färber Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Adam Jatowt Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Japan Source International Journal on Digital Libraries DOI: 10.1007/s00799-020-00288-2 Abstract Citation recommendation describes the task of […]

From an IFLA Statement: On the afternoon of 4 August 2020, the city of Beirut experienced a disaster of devastating proportions.  It was with a heavy heart that we watched footage of the explosion and began receiving news of the aftermath over the hours and days that followed. First and foremost, our thoughts are with […]

From the Special Libraries Association: Where does information go when it leaves a library or information center? In the past three weeks, the Special Libraries Association has taken two public stands against the diversion of information from its intended audiences—in both cases, diversion by government decree. On July 23, SLA issued a news release calling […]

Community Networks Adapt to New Realities Under COVID: A DWeb Meetup Recap (via Internet Archive) Pandemic Restrictions on Library Borrowing Showcase the Importance of Digital Collections and the Advantages of Open Access (via Open Research Community) Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 Journal Publishes First Preprint Studies (via MIT Press) Scribd Acquires SlideShare From LinkedIn (via Scribd) LinkedIn […]

From FirstNote (via Nieman Lab): If we are to respond to information needs as they emerge, and understand whether they are causing harm, we need a way to monitor them. [Clip] First Draft spent recent months building a dashboard to monitor data voids in partnership with the University of Sheffield, looking to find a way […]