Category Archives: Library Corner

Library Corner: 11-4-2015

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Library corner imageUS Library News:

San Diego Central Library To Expand Popular 3D Printer Lab (NBC San Diego)

Massachusetts Residents Now Have Borrowing Privileges From UMass Amherst Libraries, Select Materials Online and Pick Up at Local Library (Infodocket)

Hispanic heritage acquisitions: Constitutions of 19th-century Spain (Yale)

Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age (NYT)

Municipal Archives offer rare glimpse into NYC’s nearly 400-year history most people will never know (NY Daily News)

International Library News:

Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City library attracts local youth with newly-opened Library 2.0 (TUOI TRE NEWS)

India, France Enter MoU On Digitization Of Old Manuscripts (iGovernment India)

Employees of raided Ukrainian library in Moscow say they were framed (Reuters)

Policy and Privacy:

Library Journal’s 2015 Survey of Library eBook Usage is Friendly to Self-Pub (The Digital Reader)

“Freedom on the Net 2015″ Report Released, Internet Freedom Declines For Fifth Consecutive Year (Infodocket)

Copyright:

PDF of Section 1201 Rule (Copyright.gov)

Reference and Statistics:

Monthly Climate Conditions – Interactive Map (Climate.gov)

Tracking Corporations’ Bad Behavior: Introducing Violation Tracker (Dirt Diggers Digest)

Ancestry Mexico Launches with more than 220 Million Searchable Mexican Historical Records (Ancestry.com)

New online tool reveals terrorist networks and behavior over time (START)

Second Half of Knoedler Gallery Stock Books Database Now Online (Getty Iris)

Digital Collections:

Zoom in to 9.3 Million Internet Archive Books and Images– through IIIF (Internet Archive)

The Iowa Review Launches Free Full Text Digital Archive & “Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Goes Open Access” (Infodocket)

Historypin Gets An Upgrade (Historypin)

American Archive of Public Broadcasting Launches Online Reading Room Making Historical Public Media Content Available to the Public (LOC)

Massive archive of Yukon aerial photos now online (CBC)

McGregor Library Offers Rare Digital History of the Americas (UVA)

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.

Library Corner 10-28-2015

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Library corner imageUS Library News:

Media: Rovi Donates Nearly One Million CDs, Blu-Rays, DVDs, and Video Games to Michigan State University Libraries (Infodocket)

Ohio: KnowItNow24x7 Service Ends December 31 (State Library of Ohio)

Grant to Develop the Next Generation Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)

Seattle: Survey: Thumbs down on proposed Seattle Public Library name change (Seattle Times)

Gabriel García Márquez Archive Opens for Research on October 21 (University of Texas at Austin)

International Library News:

New Zealand: National library duped by $75k forgery (TVNZ)

Spain: National Library of Spain Announces 5 Million Euros ($5.6 Million) Digital Preservation Partnership (Infodocket)

Policy and Privacy:

Reinventing the Library (NYT)

The Ebook Pricing Wars: A former publisher’s perspective (American Libraries)

The future of encryption (National Science Foundation)

Copyright:

What the Google Books Victory Means for Readers: Is a universal library finally within reach? (The Atlantic)

Reference and Statistics:

Data: Statistics on U.S. Driver Electronic Device Use 2014 (Texting While Driving, Etc.) (Infodocket)

New African mining law database promotes transparency and investment (Mining Review)

Digital Collections:

Science: New NASA Website Provides Daily Views of Earth Taken From One Million Miles Away (Infodocket)

New Primary Source Sets for Education (DPLA)

NASA: Access Near Real Time Satellite Imagery using The Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET), Version 2 of API Released (Infodocket)

Library of Congress Places Lomax Kentucky Recordings at Berea College (Berea College)

ANS Launches Online Catalog with Egyptian National Library (Coinweek)

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.

Library Corner 10-20-2015

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Minnesota: Libraries are adding ‘maker spaces’ to attract DIY crowd (Star Tribune

Ohio: Massillon Library gets grant to buy ebooks for the homebound (IndeOnline)

Children practice reading aloud to dogs in ‘Tail Waggin’ Tutor’ program (Sun Sentinel)

Bentley Historical Library acquires Kevorkian papers, now open to the public (Michigan News)
International Library News:

Responding – Public Libraries and Refugees (IFLA)

New Article: “Chinese Internet Literature: Preserving Born-Digital Literary Content and Fighting Web Piracy” (Infodocket)

Quebec libraries leery of Islamic group’s books blaming feminism for societal ills (Yahoo Daily Brew)

Library builder’s monument of books (BBC)

Metadata that kills (Medium)

Policy and Privacy:

Data: Public Libraries: ALA Publishes Results of 2014 Digital Inclusion Survey (Infodocket)

Cyber bill could let feds spy on library users, advocate warns (The HIll)

Affordable Textbook Act Aims to Reduce College Book Prices (Education News)

Copyright:

Copyright Scares University Researchers From Sharing Their Findings (Torrent Freak)

Reference and Statistics:

Global Resource: OpenLandContracts.org Launches, Access Contracts From Large-Scale Land and Agriculture Projects (Infodocket)

Interactive Reference Resource: Oxford University Press Posts History of International Law Timeline (Infodocket)

Digital Science Launches GRID, A New, Global, Open Database Offering Unique Information On Research Organisations (Digital Science)

GPO’s MetaLib Metasearch Tool Adds New Features & Discover New Archived U.S. Government Web Sites (Infodocket)

Digital Collections:

Fader Magazine Offers Entire 16 Year Archive Free For Digital Download (Hypebot)

Palmer Museum of Art collection now available online (Penn State)

More Than 1000 Items From Kenya’s National Archives Now Online via Google Cultural Institute (Infodocket)

Lomax Family Manuscripts Now Online – Presentation Launches with 25,000 Pages of Archival Material (LOC)

GSA Launches Online Gallery of Public Art (GSA)

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.

Library Corner 10-13-2015

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Article: “Meeting Patrons Where They Are: Experimenting With Shelf Arrangement, Community Service Points, and Non-traditional Collections” (Infodocket)

San Diego: Library fines exceed $7 million (San Diego Union Tribune)

Bibliotheca announces purchase of 3M (Bibliotheca)

International Library News:

The International Coalition of Library Consortia: origins, contributions and path forward (Insights)

Ottawa Public Library fights the high price of e-books (Ottawa Citizen)

Policy and Privacy:

OCLC prints last library catalog cards (OCLC)

Announcing NARA’s Digitization Priorities (National Archives Narration)

Audio Interview: “Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle on Preserving Knowledge and Affordable Housing” (Infodocket)

New Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization (DPLA)

Copyright:

The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (EFF)

Reference and Statistics:

Canada’s population estimates: Age and sex, July 1, 2015 (Statistics Canada)

AIDSource: A Redesigned, Mobile-Optimized HIV/AIDS Information Web Site from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Updates to Congress.gov Website Go Live (Infodocket)

What We Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends (Wired)

New Reference Resource From U. of Texas at Austin: “Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research” (Infodocket)

Digital Collections:

High-Res Photos from NASA Moon Missions Added to Flickr (Flickr)

Milestones: 100,000 Digitised Books Now Available in the Medical Heritage Library (Infodocket)

Yale Showcases 170,000 Incredible Photos of Depression-Era America (Gizmodo)

French Language Version of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Goes Live (Infodocket)

Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Project Gutenberg eBook #50,000 (Project Gutenberg)

ITS places documents on Nazi persecution and its aftermath online (International Tracing Service)

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.

Library Corner 10-6-2015

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Library corner imageUS Library News:

Video: Librarian, Developer, and Entrepreneur, Jason Griffey Discusses LibraryBox and Other Projects at Harvard’s Berkman Center (Infodocket)

The Public Library’s New Role As Community Center (KNPR)

International Library News:

National Library facing insolvency unless jobs are slashed with ‘financial fragility a major risk’ to future (Wales Online)

The British Library Outlines Plan to Create a National Radio Archive (Infodocket)

Patrons’ data not kept in U.S.: Regina Public Library head (Leader-Post)

Banned Books Roundup:

Yes, We Still Need Banned Book Week (The Digital Reader)

I’m a librarian who banned a book. Here’s why. (The Conversation)

Band Books Week 2015! (Library Journal)

How do libraries get away with banning books? (The Conversation)

Policy and Privacy:

Privacy is doomed, warns incoming university librarian (Berkeley News)

Google Will Target Ads Using Email Addresses (WSJ)

Copyright: 

Open Licensing Policy Toolkit (DRAFT) (Creative Commons)

Reference and Statistics:

New corporate spending database (Politico)

NLM Releases New Research Resource for Domestic Violence (NIH)

Digital Collections:

The Guggenheim Puts Online 1600 Great Works of Modern Art from 575 Artists (Open Culture)

Open Library of Humanities Officially Launched (OLH)

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.

Library Corner 9-29-2015

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Library corner imageUS Library News:

An Introduction to Law Library Services (Pro Se)

BPL assessing rare book section after mold outbreak (Bostone Globe)

New LA libraries program turns ‘story time’ into hands-on ‘coder time’  (KPCC)

International Library News:

UK and China sign MoUs on sport, libraries, fashion and tourism (GOV.UK)

National Library of Scotland Releases New Strategy Document, Includes Plan to Place One-Third of Collection Online During Next 10 Years (Infodocket)

Policy and Privacy:

Libraries File Amicus Brief Supporting Net Neutrality (ARL)

Copyright: 

Happy Birthday IS in the public domain (The 1709 Blog)

Reference and Statistics:

OpenLandContracts.org: A Database of Publicly Available Land, Agriculture and Forestry Contracts (CCSI)

New USPTO Tool Allows Exploration of 40 Years of Patent Data (USPTO)

Passenger Travel Facts and Figures 2015 (DOT)

New interactive application showcases habitat and wildlife restoration underway on the Great Lakes (Great Lakes Commission)

IPI launches new online media laws database (IPI)

Scientists create the first digital ‘tree of life’ for 2.3 million species (Christian Science Monitor)

Digital Collections:

How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive (Nieman Labs)

The 550,000 miles of undersea cables that power the internet (The Kids Should See This)

Paper Museum” Goes Digital (Getty)

Introducing a Great New Experience for Reading Books on NAP.edu (NAP)

New Digital Archive at University of Utah Examines the Complicated and Multi-dimensional Sides of Suicide (University of Utah)

American Numismatic Society Introduces Digital Library (Coin Week)

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.

 

 

Library Corner: 9-22-2015

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Library corner imageUS Library News:

PEW Report: Libraries at the Crossroads (Pew)

Library of Congress Acquires Legendary Comedian Jerry Lewis’ Personal Archive (LOC)

Stanford Health Library, in new digs, celebrates 25th anniversary this year (Stanford)

Spoke-n-words Bike Library (Madison Public Library)

Tennessee mom calls Henrietta Lacks book ‘pornographic,’ seeks to have it banned in school (LA Times)

Community Biology Lab Opens In La Jolla Library (KPBS)

International Library News:

Scotland: Library staff ‘increasingly forced to deal with antisocial behaviour’ (STV)

Policy and Privacy:

Privacy – Who Needs It? (Library Freedom Project)

Copyright: 

Ninth Circuit “Dancing Baby” Copyright Decision: A Quick Read for the Busy Practitioner (Trademark and Copyright)

Georgia’s legal battle with public records advocate deepens (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Reference and Statistics: 

Reference: New Data, Reports, Statistics on Poverty, Income and Health Insurance Coverage Released Today (Infodocket)

Data: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Medicare Part D Prescriber Look-up Tool (Infodocket)

Visualize the Topography of Wages in America with the Living Wage Map (The American Surveyor)

Reference: Census Bureau Releases New Online Data Tool For Entrepreneurs and Small Business Researchers (Infodocket)

Updated Interactive Reference Resource: Vegetation Map For Africa (Infodocket)

An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth (Migration Policy)

Digital Collections:

A Film Festival of Kick Ass Kung Fu/Martial Arts Films in the Public Domain (Open Culture)

Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (LOC)

CIA to Release Declassified President’s Daily Brief Articles from Kennedy and Johnson Administrations CIA)

British Movietone Digital Archives Online (Eastman’s Online Genealogy)

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.

 

Library Corner 9-15-2015

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US Library News:

Little Free Libraries Felled by Arson, Bureaucracy (The Digital Reader)

10,000 zines and counting: a library’s quest to save the history of fandom [Updated] (The Verge)

Texas Library Launches a Digital-Only Library Card  (The Digital Reader)

Michigan Public Radio Publishes Series of Articles on the “Public Library in an Internet Age” (Infodocket)

International Library News:

Wales Plans National Library Card (The Digital Reader)

Toronto: A City in 100 Libraries (Torontoist)

Funding cuts had ‘savage impact’ on National Library of Ireland (Irish Times)

Windsor: Fewer books, more digital: $7.9 million helps create new library system (Windsor Star)

Literacy: Worldreader and Opera Software Partnership Reaches 5 Million Readers in Africa via Mobile Phones (Infodocket)

Policy and Privacy:

EFF Asks Court on Behalf of Libraries and Booksellers to Recognize Readers’ Right to Be Free of NSA’s Online Surveillance (EFF)

Library Groups Seek to Support FCC in Net Neutrality Case  (Associations Now)

Just why can’t the news media understand the digital divide–especially the Associated Press? (Library City)

Copyright:

EFF, Creative Commons, Authors Alliance, KEI, and New Media Rights Send Letter to U.S. Trade Representative Re: Orphan Works (Infodocket)

Reference and Statistics: 

Reference Resources: U.S. Census Adds New Features to World Population Clock Site Including International Map Viewer (Infodocket)

From Fee to Free: USA Trade Online Database From U.S. Census Will Become a Free Resource Beginning on October 15th  (Infodocket)

Slide Presentation: State of Old Dominion University Libraries, 2015 (Infodocket)

2014 Texas Public Library Statistics Available! (Library Developments)

Digital Collections:

Hear Blade Runner, Terminator, Videodrome & Other 70s, 80s & 90s Movies as Novelized AudioBooks (Open Culture)

First digital geological map of the world’s ocean floor (Lab News)

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Launches First of-its-Kind Criminal Justice Open Data Initiative (California Department of Justice)

New Online: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Publicly Releases Unclassified Data About the Arctic (Infodocket)

National Archives of Thailand: Going digital with online search (Bangkok Post)

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.

Library Corner 9-8-2015

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Library corner imagePilot schemes to give all children automatic library membership (BBC)

British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws (Yahoo News)

Hoopla digital Adds New Titles from Image Comics (Including the Walking Dead) (Hoopla)

School and Library Spotlight: How Schools Buy and Use E-Books (Publishers Weekly)

Public Libraries Want You to Read Local (The Digital Reader)

Slides From a Recent Conference Presentation About the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Now Online (Infodocket)

Streetlib Now Distributes eBooks to OverDrive’s 33,000 Libraries (The Digital Reader)

DPLA Welcomes Four New Service Hubs to Our Growing Network (DPLA)

Hidden Cornell treasures to be digitized (Cornell Chronicles)

Milestones: UK Medical Heritage Library Digitization Reaches Halfway Point With Over 26,000 Titles, Nearly 8 Million Page Images (Infodocket)

Worldreader and Opera Bring Books to 5 Million Readers in Africa via Mobile Phones (The Digital Reader)

Digital Collections:

Data: Statistics: State Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Estimates 2013 (Traffic Safety Facts) (Infodocket)

University Libraries Officially Open the Digital Ozark Folksong Collection (University of Arkansas)

American Physical Society (APS) Begins Adding U.S. Dept. of Energy-Funded Research Articles to CHORUS Database (Infodocket)

HN and Omaha Public Library create ‘Download Nebraska’; The Good Life premieres new video (Hear Nebraska)

Cool! The Wonderful “Old Maps Online” Database Now Has a Mobile App for iOS and Android (Infodocket)

Report and Data: Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Inrix Release 2015 Urban Mobility Study (Traffic and Commuting in U.S., UK, and Europe) (Infodocket)

Reference: Statistics: CDC Releases New Data on Vaccination Rates For Infants and Children (19-35 Months) (Infodocket)

Special Collections: “LGBT Archive at USC Preserves Personal Stories From a Hidden Past (Infodocket)

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.

Library Corner 9-1-2015

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Library corner imageKids get Chromebooks, buses get Wi-Fi and school districts get technical (Times Reporter)

Two Engineers From OCLC Research Take a Look Inside the “Library Knowledge Vault” (Infodocket)

North Carolina Editorial: New libraries cannot be casualties of Senate tax game (Winston-Salem Journal)

Music goes digital at State Library as local musicians perform live for new online archive (ABC.net Australia)

Paterson schools preparing to open with fewer librarians (NorthJersey.com)

This is the end of the library as we know it (Quartz)

Why Librarians Don’t Want to Buy Your Self-Published Book (Wrapped Up In Books)

Amigos eShelf Lets Libraries Host, Check Out eBooks (The Digital Reader)

Digital Collections:

New Interactive Map & Data Tool From CDC: Antibiotic Resistance in Humans For Bacteria Transmitted Commonly Through Food (Infodocket)

Audio files: LGBTQ+ oral histories live on in new digital archive (U of Toronto Mississauga)

USDA’s National Agricultural Library Launches New Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection (USDA Blog)

Expanded Digitization of Islamic Manuscripts (Princeton)

New! GPO & National Archives Make eCFR Available For Bulk Download in XML Format (Infodocket)

Welcome the Texas State University to the Flickr Commons! (Flickr)

New Census Data:

New Data Files Online: U.S. Census Releases More 2012 “Statistics of U.S. Businesses” Data (Infodocket)

U.S. Census Releases Report and Dataset on Commuting to Work by Car (Infodocket)

Reference: Facts and Statistics About Hurricane Katrina (Prepared For 10th Anniversary: Aug. 29, 2015) (Infodocket)

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.