The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) this month received a $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund a multi-year effort to connect the digital collections of libraries, museums, universities, and other American cultural heritage institutions with Wikipedia.
Punk rock music has lived many lives, but its spirit has always meant the freedom to question everything, and to create or think for yourself. So how does one take the heart of this movement and archive it? That’s a question curator John Davis and Ben Jackson (curator and manager of the University of Maryland’s Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, respectively) had to ask themselves while creating their online exhibit, Persistent Vision: The D.C. Punk Collections at the University of Maryland.
Noteworthy for its specialized content and usability, this is one of four collections of primary documents from Coherent Digital hosted on the History Commons platform. It covers the period from the armistice of 1918 to the outbreak of World War II.
This report highlights how academic libraries apply equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) standards when acquiring digital resources and includes the full data from LJ’s 2022 survey of 220 college/university libraries.
Library Journal is searching for academic libraries using open source software (or developing code) to customize library applications. If this describes your library, please tell us about the platforms used and reasons for turning to open source technology/coding over proprietary software. This very brief survey will take less than 4 minutes of your time.
Our goal is to identify and increase awareness of how academic libraries can take ownership of their software via open source or independent development.
“There are also so many archives that are on a shoestring budget with lone archivists, and they’re asked to do so much already that it’s hard to say you should dedicate all your time to doing this. But if you’re not doing the outreach, then you spend all your time with those who only want the information for their dissertation or writing a monograph.”
John Scalzi wins the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The Oregon Book Awards finalists are announced. The Bram Stoker Awards preliminary ballot is released. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s longlist is announced, featuring the highest number of women authors in the prize’s history. The Evergreen Award finalists are announced. Ian Williams is named chair of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.
Providing a window into the many accomplishments of Asian artists over the centuries, this illuminating and useful resource is an important purchase for larger public libraries and academic institutions.
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