Gary Price, Infodocket, provides regular updates for librarians and infopros to be their organization’s intelligence officers. His May video is here. Register to talk with him on September 10, 2020. His explanation of ‘what’s the scoop on Tik Tok’ is here.
MUST READ REPORTS
“New AI Project Captures Jane Austen’s Thoughts on Social Media”
(Simulated Hypothetical Correspondence with Historical Figures)
Switzerland’s SONAR Project Launching “Institutional Repository as a Service (IRaaS)” Soon
University of British Columbia: “One Decolonizing Change to Subject Headings at UBC Library”
EXPERIMENTS, TOOLS, RESOURCES
Higher Education: New Report Releases IPEDS Data on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees and Degrees
Introducing the PID (Persistent Identifier) Services Registry
New Experiment: LC Labs Testing Speech to Text Viewer
New From the British Library: Shakespeare’s Only Surviving Playscript Now Online
ARTICLES, PREPRINTS, REPORTS, and WORKING PAPERS
Chapter Preprint: “Library Discovery Directions” by Lorcan Dempsey
More Than 1/4 of the Newspapers Operating in U.S. 15 Years Ago are No Longer in Business
NEWS
ACM Adopts Goal of “Opening” ACM Digital Library in Next Five Years
Catherine Stihler is the New CEO at Creative Commons, Formerly CEO at Open Knowledge Foundation
LYRASIS Announces the 2020 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects
Milestones: Affordable Learning Georgia Reaches 1 Million Downloads of Open Educational Resources
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Releases Digital Preservation Framework
OpenCitations Index Adds 18 Million Citations
“The Relationship Between bioRxiv Preprints, Citations and Altmetrics”
SCOAP3 for Books Pilot Project Started
University of Florida and Elsevier Announce New Open Access Pilot Agreement
Wikimedia Foundation Introduces First New Project in Seven Years:
PRESENTATIONS and PANELS
Digital Preservation: Slides, Video Recordings, and Other Materials from OPFCON Now Available Online
Profile: “A Librarian For Digital Times (Barbara Rockenbach Begins University Librarian Job at Yale)
Re-thinking Open Library’s Book Pages
Switzerland’s SONAR Project Launching “Institutional Repository as a Service (IRaaS)” Soon