IMLS funding announced to improve library services; President Obama’s budget increases library funding; Barnard Revises Plans for Library; University of British Columbia Library Acquires 800 Year Old Papal Document; Ford Foundation Will Now Require All Funded Projects to Use Creative Commons (CC-BY) Licensing; Inaugural ’2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics; Association of Canadian Publishers and Ingram Content Group develop digital to print program for publishers; Maney Publishing unveils digital archives, unlocks over a century’s worth of content; Gale blazes new trails for global researchers with digitized collections of rare historical material; and Open Preservation Foundation to provide sustainable home for JHOVE;
IMLS funding announced to improve library services
District Dispatch reports that “the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last week announced funding for 56 State Library Administration Agencies (SLAAs) totaling almost $155 million. The annual Grants to States represent the largest source of federal funding support for library services in the United States and supported by the American Library Association. A full list of state grants can be found here…
President Obama’s budget increases library funding
District Dispatch also notes that “President Barack Obama today transmitted to Congress the Obama Administration’s nearly $4 trillion budget request to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2016, which starts October 1, 2015…
Highlights for the library community include $186.5 million in assistance to libraries through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). This important program provides funding to states through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)…”
Barnard Revises Plans for Library
According to InfoDOCKET “Barnard administrators presented revised plans for the college’s new Teaching and Learning Center on Monday, which included an increased focus on space for the library compared to original plans. The revisions came after Barnard faculty and library staff raised significant concerns about the plans last semester…”
University of British Columbia Library Acquires 800 Year Old Papal Document
InfoDOCKET also reports that “an extraordinary Papal document that’s nearly 800 years old has become a valuable teaching and research tool at UBC, thanks to a history instructor’s passion and the university library’s restoration efforts.
The medieval gem, called a Papal bull, was written in 1245. A legal decree issued in Latin by Pope Innocent IV to the Italian convent of San Michele in Trento, it features the signatures of the Pope and 13 cardinals (including future pope Nicholas III)…”
Ford Foundation Will Now Require All Funded Projects to Use Creative Commons (CC-BY) Licensing
Lastly InfoDOCKET notes that “the Ford Foundation announced today that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all
grant-funded projects and research to promote greater transparency and accessibility of materials. Effective February 1, grantees and consultants will be required to make foundation-funded materials subject to a Creative Commons license [CC-BY 2014] allowing others, free of charge and without requesting permission, the ability to copy, redistribute, and adapt existing materials, provided they give appropriate credit to the original author…”
Inaugural ’2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics
According to KnowledgeSpeak “Elsevier has announced that the inaugural and newly-released ’2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report, based on Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC)’s evaluation, is anchored on its Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio. The report provides a detailed look at key research performance indicators of more than 1,000 higher education institutions across mainland China…
Association of Canadian Publishers and Ingram Content Group develop digital to print program for publishers
KnowledgeSpeak also notes that “Ingram Content Group Inc. and the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) have announced a digital to print program, offered through Ingram’s Lightning Source Inc. that gives ACP member publishers tools to … convert digital books to physical books and print and distribute them to booksellers and readers around the world. ACP’s digital to print program exposes Canadian publisher content to an expanded audience of readers worldwide…”
Maney Publishing unveils digital archives, unlocks over a century’s worth of content
In addition, KnowledgeSpeak reports that “Maney Publishing has announced that the new MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Digital Archives include the back-file content of 80 journals and offer instant online access to …, historical research and scholarly excellence, much of which has been published by academic and professional societies…”
Gale blazes new trails for global researchers with digitized collections of rare historical material
Library Technology Guides reports that “Gale,.. announced several Gale Digital Collections for academic and special libraries around the world, including the next three installments of Associated Press Collections Online as well as Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library. These new collections are available on the Gale Artemis: Primary Sources platform, giving researchers the ability to cross-search with other digital archives and access to graphing and search visualization tools that will help them explore the content in new ways…”
Open Preservation Foundation to provide sustainable home for JHOVE
Library Technology Guides also reports that “the Open Preservation Foundation has started the process of taking over stewardship of JHOVE, the widely-used open source digital preservation tool. JHOVE, JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment, provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterisation of digital objects. It was originally developed by Harvard Library and JSTOR in 2003…”