(24 April 2013, Washington, D.C.) Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Judiciary Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. This announcement was made before the World Intellectual Property Day celebration at the Library of Congress. Read the announcement here: http://judiciary.house.gov/news/2013/04242013_2.html
“Copyright for Librarians” (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The goal is to provide librarians in developing and transition countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning copyright law in general; the aspects of copyright…
READ Global wins the $100,000 Lipman Family Prize of the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 24 April 2013) The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the winner of the second annual Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize – READ Global, an international non-profit bringing together education, enterprise, and community…
(22 April 2013 Bloomington, Ind. and Urbana, Ill.) This week the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announced the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collection of digital texts from over 70 research libraries around the world. The new tools provide a much-needed entry point to large-scale analysis of HathiTrust’s…
EndNote, a reference manager from Thomson Reuters, now has a free version. EndNote Basic online offers two gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references. Visit here http://endnote.com/basic to create a free account.
ORCID and ISNI are separate, independent organizations that assign identifiers to individuals and are using the same identifier format. While ISNI and ORCID have different missions and employ different processes for assigning identifiers and linking people with their works and their affiliated institutions, points of overlap between them justify investigating options for interoperability. ORCID and…
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s National Central Library an international conference was organized on the 18th and 19th of April 2013. The general theme was “A New Paradigm for Globalized Knowledge and Library Development.” On this occasion, the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou graced the meeting with his presence at the opening ceremony.…
(Tuesday 23 April 2013) Stanford University Libraries has the following new positions this week: Senior Drupal/PHP Web Developer, HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries ; Digital Library Data Administrator, Digital Library Systems and Services, Stanford University Libraries; DevOps System Administrator, Digital Library Systems and Services, Stanford University Libraries ; Discovery Engineer, Digital Library Systems and Services,…
Announced by Prof. Dr. Raji. C. Steineck, University of Zurich, this is a database of Japanese Buddhist art objects/ethnological material in European public collections. It was jointly built by a team put together by the Research Center of International Japanese Studies of the Hosei University Tokyo and the University of Zurich’s Institute of Asian and…
(Farmington Hills, Mich., 23 April 2013) National Geographic Kids includes the complete issues of National Geographic Kids magazine from 2009-present, 500 downloadable images, and 200 National Geographic Kids books, including reference books as well as nonfiction books on history, biography, science and technology and the National Geographic Readers, which cover wildlife, pets, nature and other…
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