US: EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents
US: EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents: The EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun closing its nationwide network of scientific libraries, effectively preventing EPA scientists and the public from accessing vast amounts of data and information on issues from toxicology to pollution. Several libraries have already been dismantled, […]
Read MoreThe IFLA Internet Manifesto
The IFLA Internet Manifesto: The IFLA Internet Manifesto Unhindered access to information is essential to freedom, equality, global understanding and peace. Therefore, the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) asserts that: Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual both to hold and express opinions and to seek and receive information; it is the basis […]
Read MoreOpen scholarship
Open scholarship: Liz Lyon, Reflections on open scholarship: process, product and people, keynote presentation at the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference (Glasgow, 21-22 November 2006). —— this looks good
Read MoreLargest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands
Largest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands: From the Netherlands, the “Images for the Future” project is building a large-scale conservation and digitization project to make available 285,000 hours of film, television, and radio recordings, as well as more than 2.9 million photos from the Netherlands’ film and television archives. A […]
Read MoreNew Program:ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN MUSEUM LIBRARIES
PrattNews: PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCEINCE LAUNCHES COUNTRY’S FIRST ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN MUSEUM LIBRARIES NEW YORK, N.Y. November 8, 2006 – Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) introduced the world’s first program focusing on museum libraries this fall semester. The Advanced Certificate in Museum Libraries will yield a Master’s […]
Read MoreUNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize: Call for nominations
UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize: Call for nominations: Significant contributions to the preservation and accessibility of documentary heritage are now being sought to be nominated for the second UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize. The Prize of US$30 000 was created to commemorate the inscription of the Buljo jikji simche yojeol, the oldest known […]
Read MoreThe Irreverent Archivist: Recipe for Appraisal of Random Items
The Irreverent Archivist: Recipe for Appraisal of Random Items: This recipe for appraisal of random items is a tried and true formula, tested in many archival work places throughout the world over the past century. It never fails to produce a certain light-headed, clean feeling, and it is possible to modify this recipe to include […]
Read MoreWhat About Public Trust?
What About Public Trust?: Not too many years, the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors sponsored a series of lectures about art museums and the notion of the public trust. As James Cuno, editor of the results of these lectures published as Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), […]
Read MoreLIS Zen Heaven
LIS Zen Heaven: LISZEN: Library Blog Search Engine “Wanting to find out what other librarians are saying about Library 2.0? Or perhaps you can’t remember who talked about ‘Fighting the Stereotypes!’ a few weeks ago. Welcome to the search engine for librarians! I’ve been slaving away, taking links from LISWIKI and importing them to Google […]
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