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Frick Art Reference Library Celebrates Its Centennial The Frick Art Reference Library, a preeminent center for art historical research, is marking 100 years since its opening by looking back at its remarkable history. A new publication, One Hundred Objects in the Frick Art Reference Library, commemorates the occasion through highlights drawn from the library’s extensive collections of books, rare auction catalogs, artists’ sketchbooks, photographs, and a wide range of archival holdings. The book also celebrates moments in the library’s history, from its involvement in the Monuments Men program during World War II to its development of innovative research tools. |
SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE When UX Design Meets the Library Library patrons and staff have differing abilities, goals and environments when using online research services, systems and learning resources. How do digital product designers balance these differing needs to ensure students, faculty, librarians and researchers can all accomplish what they set out to do?
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“Fully OA” Blog Launched by Fully OA Group A brand new initiative, the Fully OA blog, was launched this week by the Fully OA Group. Born out of the OASPA Interest Group of Fully OA journal organizations, the group provides a forum for exchange of ideas and, where appropriate, collaboration amongst publishers that only publish Open Access. |
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases Report on US Academic Member Libraries’ Open Infrastructure Expenses From ARL: In May–June 2022 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) surveyed its U.S.-based academic research libraries to better understand OA [open access] expenses. The survey asked respondents to categorize expenses into six areas of investment: read-and-publish or transitional agreements, article processing charges (APC) or OA funds, non-APC-based OA publishing models, institutional repository services, OA journal hosting and publishing services, and open monographs. |
Data Tools: USGS Launches Wildland Fire Trends Tool A team of scientists from the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center created the Wildland Fire Trends Tool (WFTT), a data visualization and analysis tool that calculates and displays wildfire trends and patterns for the western U.S. based on user-defined regions of interest, time periods, and ecosystem types. Users can use the tool to easily generate a variety of maps, graphs, and tabular data products that are informative for all levels of expertise. The WFTT provides information that can be used for a wide range of purposes, from helping to set agency fire management objectives to providing useful information to scientists, interested public, and the media. |
Springer Nature and The Lens Announce Partnership Springer Nature and The Lens today announced a major partnership that will give better insights into how academic research and data can accelerate innovative problem solving with economic and social outcomes. By better connecting science, investment and enterprise open data, the partnership aims to provide the insight needed by diverse stakeholders to coordinate their capabilities to deliver evidence-based action for climate change and other global challenges. Through this partnership, The Lens’ open knowledge platform of hundreds of millions of patents and publications will be further linked with Springer Nature’s database of tens of millions of pieces of scholarly literature. |
PERFORMING ARTS Cinema Speculation By Quentin Tarantino Dynamic film commentary from a contemporary legend that is essential reading for cinephiles. Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges By Stuart Klawans It’s obvious Klawans has pored over Sturges’s films. After reading his thoughtful analyses, film buffs will want to rewatch them, armed with new insights. |
Movers & Shakers 2023 | Call for Nominations The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying emerging talents in the library world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Our 21st annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, and making a difference fighting against censorship, and helping improve their workplace. From librarians and non-degreed library workers to publishers, vendors, coders, entrepreneurs, reviewers, and others who impact the library field—Movers & Shakers 2023 will celebrate those people who are moving all types of libraries ahead! Please let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. Submission deadline has been extended to November 21, 2022. |
ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Environmental Science By LJ Reviews Optimist’s Clean Energy Future, and More in environmental science titles: November 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health.
Zeldovich, Lina
University of Chicago Press 2021. ISBN 9780226615578 $26.00 2. Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis.
Cirino, Erica
Island Press 2021. ISBN 9781642831375 $28.00 3. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future.
Griffith, Saul
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262046237 $24.95 |
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