Here is this week’s roundup of library news:
US Library News:
Waukegan’s shuttered Carnegie library may reopen as Ray Bradbury museum (Chicago Tribune)
Cleveland Public Library releases free new card designed by artist Amy Casey (Cleveland)
Map Believed Stolen More Than a Decade Ago From Boston Public Library Found in New York City and Returned (Infodocket)
International Library News:
Australia: New website allows youth to report cyber bullying at ACT libraries (Canberra Times)
UK: More than 100 libraries shut in 2014-15 (BBC)
Policy and Privacy:
Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of Haruki Murakami is leaked (The Guardian)
Copyright:
Reference and Statistics:
New Data: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (Infodocket)
Plume Labs launches a live map of air pollution (Plume Labs)
Digital Collections:
OverDrive Begins Offering More Than 400 Kodansha Comics’ Manga eBooks to U.S. and Canadian Library Partners (Infodocket)
StoryCorps adds thousands of stories to national archive (STL Post-Dispatch)
Cool! NIH Manuscript Collection Now Optimized and Available for Text-Mining and More (Infodocket)
FDR’s speeches available online for 1st time (AP)
About once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about digital collections available online. I also post other links of interest about the digital life daily on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.