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From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not Real News” […]

A Letter From the New CEO of Lyrasis, John Wilkin Indianapolis Public Library Down to Finalists For New CEO Meta Sued for Collecting Financial Information Through Tax Filing Websites (via The Markup) SCOAP3 Launches Open Books Program U.S. Copyright Office Concludes Study on Best Edition Requirements

From Virginia Tech University: The Best Paper Prize was awarded to Alex Kinnaman and Alan Munshower of University Libraries at iPRES 2022, the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation in Glasgow, Scotland. The jury members selected Kinnaman and Munshower’s paper, “Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech,” in part because the “topic of this […]

The article linked below was published by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title Open Access and Its Potential Impact on Public Health – A South African Perspective Authors Adéle Strydom Juanita Mellet Jeanne Van Rensburg Ignatius Viljoen Anastasios Athanasiadis Michael S. Pepper SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy, Department of Immunology, Faculty […]

From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Lila Bailey: We are excited to announce the release of our report, “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet,” and the culmination of a months-long process consulting with leading experts from libraries, civil society, and academia regarding libraries’ role in shaping […]

From The Unwritten Record (A National Archives and Records Administration Blog) by Amy H. Edwards: The Cartographic Branch is pleased to announce that three new series of records relating to Puerto Rico have been fully digitized and are now available online for viewing and download through the National Archives Catalog. The first series, RG 95: […]

The article linked below was recently published by The Journal of Creative Library Practice. Title A Database Tells No Tales: Narrating Inquiry with LibGuides Author Michael Kicey University at Buffalo (SUNY) Source The Journal of Creative Library Practice November 30, 2022 From the Article: I have written at some length elsewhere[1] on how the conscious development […]

ALA Invites Applications for Fourth Annual Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces Pocket Burgundy Awards Mapping Social Media Archiving Initiatives: State of the Art, Trends, and Future Perspective (IIPC: International Internet Preservation […]

From a Europeana Pro Blog Post: Europeana is at the heart of the common European data space for cultural heritage, a flagship initiative of the European Union to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector. As of September 2022, together with our partners we have started turning the data space into a reality and […]