Policy and Statements
ALA Statement Affirming the Rights of Transgender People
http://www.ala.org/news/press-
Rep. DeGette Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Support US Research Community during Pandemic (RISE Act)
https://degette.house.gov/medi
APLU Applauds Introduction of RISE Act
https://www.aplu.org/news-and-
Rep. Clyburn Leads Introduction of $100B Broadband Bill (Affordable Internet for All Act)
https://www.multichannel.com/n
News Release, List of Co-Sponsors, Text of Bill, Comment from ALA
https://spanberger.house.gov/n
SHLB Statement: Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act Recognizes Key Role of Anchor Institutions in Closing Digital Divide
https://www.shlb.org/news/shlb
Higher Education—Member Institutions
Purdue President: Student Will Be Expelled after Racist Online Statements, Video
https://www.wlfi.com/content/n
Purdue Students React to University’s Decision to Expel Student for Racist Comments Online
https://www.wlfi.com/content/n
Higher Education—Other
Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV? (via The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/id
APLU Survey & Interviews of Public University Leaders Identify Biggest Challenges Facing Public University Leaders & Find “How COVID-19 Changed Everything and Nothing at All”
http://www.aplu.org/June2020Ch
ARL Member Libraries
Aviation Company’s Archive Donated to Cornell Library
https://news.cornell.edu/stori
CRL: LAMP Digitizes Two Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Newspapers
https://www.crl.edu/news/lamp-
NEW Article from the Scholarly Comm Librarian at U of Ottawa: “At-risk articles”: the imperative to recover lost science
https://insights.uksg.org/arti
Penn State University Libraries’ labor unions digitized collections project completed
https://news.psu.edu/story/624
Libraries—Others
VIDEOS: Discussions on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion from RLUK Events
https://www.rluk.ac.uk/discuss
VIDEOS: Panel Discussion Recording: “Emergency Access and the Prospect of Controlled Digital Lending in Canada: Perspectives”
https://www.infodocket.com/202
Articles, Data, and Tools
Creating a Library Wide Culture and Environment to Support MLIS Students of Color: The Diversity Scholars Program at Oregon State University Libraries
http://www.inthelibrarywiththe
Why Do Measures Fluctuate? Metrics Report—Guidelines for Talking to Management (via LIBER)
https://zenodo.org/record/3902
Preprint: Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p
Preprint: An Extensive Analysis of the Presence of Altmetric Data for Web of Science Publications Across Subject Fields and Research Topics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.126
Use Cases of Institutional RDM Support (via OpenAIRE)
Note: Several cites are from papers, items written by/about ARL members
https://www.openaire.eu/blogs/
Publishers
ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020: Shortlist Announced
https://www.alpsp.org/News/alp
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
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Information Industry Analyst Librarian
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