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Information Today March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs.  |
Information Today August 6, 2009 |
Open Library Environment Project Draft Final Report Available The resulting OLE platform is predicated on service-oriented architecture and a community-source model of development and governance.  |
Information Today August 27, 2015 |
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment."  |
Information Today January 9, 2012 |
NISO Releases Updated Draft of SERU The National Information Standards Organization announced the availability of a draft update of SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding for public comment through Feb. 19, 2012.  |
Information Today December 20, 2010 |
Commerce Department Calls for 'Privacy Bill of Rights' The report outlines a dynamic framework to increase protection of consumers' commercial data and support innovation and evolving technology. The Department is seeking additional public comment on the plan.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS to Award $154.8 Million to States to Improve Library Services... Wiley Launches Premium Open Access Journal Advanced Science... Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Explore Patron Privacy in Library and Publisher Systems...  |
Information Today April 22, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Draft Open for Public Comment The Center for Research Libraries announced that its North American working group will revise the LIBLICENSE Standard Licensing Agreement model license with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  |
Information Today July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services.  |
Information Today November 2000 |
Mellon Foundation Grant for Digital Repository Economic Model Awarded to MIT Libraries The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $215,000 to MIT to develop an economic model to maintain digital documents within an academic research library...  |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
Task Force Issues Interim Report on Digital Preservation and Access This report cites an urgent need to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information.  |
Information Today November 5, 2007 |
Groups Urge FTC to Protect Consumer Privacy Online Nine privacy and consumer groups unveiled a consensus document outlining key consumer rights and protections they want to see implemented in the behavioral online advertising sector.  |
Information Today May 3, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place.  |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities.  |
Information Today February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 |
In Brief and In the News Should there be a right to be forgotten?... Registration underway for Digital Library Federation's eResearch Network... The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange...  |
Information Today September 24, 2007 |
New Digital Preservation and Access Task Force Formed The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are funding a blue-ribbon task force to address the issue of economic sustainability for digital preservation and persistent access.  |
Information Today June 10, 2013 |
NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on OpenURLs The report provides instructions on how to identify problems with OpenURLs and help content providers ensure that their metadata is correct and complete.  |
Information Today April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics.  |
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards Google goes on the offense in Europe over privacy concerns.  |
Information Today March 27, 2014 |
NISO Releases Draft of Recommended Practice for Demand-Driven Acquisition NISO is interested in feedback from libraries already using a demand-driven acquisition ( aka patron-driven acquisition) model as well as institutions considering the option.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2011 |
FTC, EU Look to Tighten Online Privacy Rules As officials from United States and Europe separately undertake sweeping reviews of Internet privacy regulations for marketers and Web companies, self-regulation is under fire.  |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project  |
Information Today May 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The theme is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom established Choose Privacy Week to deepen public awareness about this issue. The event is timely with many privacy issues like CISPA in the news.  |
Information Today August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience  |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way.  |
Information Today January 14, 2016 |
EBSCO Gives Libraries Incentives to Step Toward Solar EBSCO Information Services created a grant initiative (totaling $150,000) to help libraries adopt solar power.  |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.  |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership.  |
Information Today January 13, 2015 |
OCLC and the British Library Team Up for Document Delivery OCLC's WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is now fully integrated with the British Library Document Supply Service to give libraries a new option for document delivery.  |
InternetNews December 17, 2010 |
Commerce Report Outlines Web Privacy Overhaul Long-anticipated report from Department of Commerce envisions a privacy bill of rights, calls for overhauls of data breach, electronic communications laws.  |
Investment Advisor February 2007 Kara Stapleton |
February 2007 The American College will celebrate National Financial Awareness Day... The NASD Investor Education Foundation awarded a grant of $354,500 to... etc.  |
D-Lib April 2001 |
In Brief The eScholarship Initiative... Scholnet and Cyclades: Extending the Role of Digital Libraries... Taking a Common View of Educational Metadata... The Electronic Privacy Information Center... Bobby: CAST's Free Public Service for Web Accessibility... etc.  |
Information Today October 24, 2013 |
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative Releases Recommended Practice Draft This recommended practice from the National Information Standards Organization provides guidelines for content providers and discovery service creators on how to address issues that arise in the use of indexed search as part of library discovery services.  |
D-Lib August 2006 Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey |
A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts.  |
Information Today September 19, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association.  |
Information Today February 26, 2015 |
NISO Releases White Paper on the Future of Library Resource Discovery NISO (National Information Standards Organization) published a white paper, "The Future of Library Resource Discovery," which summarizes the current discovery environment.  |
Information Today July 1, 2014 |
NISO's Recommended Practices Focus on DDA and Discovery Transparency Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs and Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery are available for free on NISO's website.  |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
International Data Privacy Day Spreads Focusing on data privacy in an age of cybercrime.  |
Information Today April 1, 2013 |
NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Ejournals This practice was developed to provide guidance on the presentation of ejournals -- particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices -- to publishers and platform providers, as well as to solve some long-standing concerns of librarians.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations...  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help?  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Kuali OLE System Partners receive $882,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation... IMLS Congressional Justification Now Available... Wellcome Library's Digital Asset Player...  |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support.  |
D-Lib May 2005 |
In Brief NISO's OpenURL: Matching the Query to the Result... Report on the First CASHMERE-int Workshop... Writing a Workbook for Archivists and Curators of Digital Private Papers - the Paradigm Project... etc.  |
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In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers...  |
Information Today March 29, 2012 |
FTC Recommends Best Practices for Consumer Privacy Protection The final report sets forth best practices for businesses to protect the privacy of American consumers and to give them greater control over the collection and use of their personal data.  |
Information Today February 12, 2015 |
NISO Takes On UKSG's Transfer Code of Practice for Journals The code has been republished as a NISO Recommended Practice, with all of its supporting documentation housed on NISO's website.  |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
FCC Allows Internet Companies to Keep Tracking User Activities According to The Washington Post, the Federal Communications Commission will not impose a requirement on Google, Facebook, and other internet companies that could make it more difficult to track user activities.  |
Information Today June 2, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Provides Enhancements for Patrons and Librarians They will offer a redesigned web patron interface for easier browsing and the ability for librarians to reclassify ebooks' age ranges.  |
InternetNews January 20, 2010 |
Microsoft: U.S. Must Weigh In on Cloud Computing Effort looks to encourage revised laws and industry and privacy protections as cloud computing takes off.  |