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| | Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS, Will Be Leaving Organization at the End of June 2022 From a LYRASIS Announcement: Following seven years of service, Robert Miller, the Chief Executive Officer of LYRASIS, a leading nonprofit member organization serving and supporting libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations globally, will be leaving the organization as of June 30, 2022.
Since becoming CEO in 2015, Robert and his team have led LYRASIS through a series of positive transformations, including merging with DuraSpace and acquiring BiblioLabs. This has resulted in growth of existing programs and establishing LYRASIS as a top provider of open source technologies and electronic content to the sector. |
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| Black Press Archives at Howard University Gets Preserved, Digitized Thanks to $2 Million Grant
From Howard University: The Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) received a $2 million grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation to support the preservation and digitization of the Black Press Archives, a newspaper collection of titles by Black journalists, editors, and publishers. MSRC worked in partnership with the Center for Journalism and Democracy to secure this critical gift, and the center will be committing additional funds to the project to ensure a significant number of publications in the Black Press Archives are available in an online repository for worldwide research. |
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| | | New Experimental Service From arXiv: Articles as Responsive Web Pages
From an arXiv Blog Post: arXiv readers can now benefit from new, experimental access to our article collection converted to responsive HTML5. For a quick preview, replace the “X” of arXiv in any article link to the “5” of ar5iv and be redirected to a corresponding arXivLabs page. This service was developed by the KWARC research group at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, with the close support of the LaTeXML project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. |
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| | Annenberg/Penn: “Bridging Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, One Article at a Time”
From the Annenberg School of Communications, Univ. of Pennsylvania: As the world’s largest and most-used information resource, Wikipedia is home to 6.4 million articles and counting. But despite how comprehensive it seems, 90% of the site’s editors are men, and women are vastly underrepresented as subjects in the encyclopedia. The problem is particularly glaring when it comes to biographical information. Of the 1.5 million biographical articles on the site, less than 20% are about women. A new study co-authored by Isabelle Langrock, a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Annenberg Associate Professor Sandra González-Bailón, evaluates the work of two prominent feminist movements, finding that while these movements have been effective in adding a large volume of biographical content about women to Wikipedia, such content remains more difficult to find due to structural biases. |
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