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Day in Review (June 24, 2020)

Policy and Statements

ALA Statement Affirming the Rights of Transgender People
http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/06/ala-statement-affirming-rights-transgender-people

Rep. DeGette Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Support US Research Community during Pandemic (RISE Act)
https://degette.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/degette-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-to-support-us-research

APLU Applauds Introduction of RISE Act
https://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-applauds-introduction-of-rise-act

Rep. Clyburn Leads Introduction of $100B Broadband Bill (Affordable Internet for All Act)
https://www.multichannel.com/news/rep-clyburn-leads-introduction-of-100b-broadband-bill

News Release, List of Co-Sponsors, Text of Bill, Comment from ALA
https://spanberger.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3027

SHLB Statement: Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act Recognizes Key Role of Anchor Institutions in Closing Digital Divide
https://www.shlb.org/news/shlb/2020/06/Accessible-Affordable-Internet-for-All-Act-Recognizes-Key-Role-of-Anchor-Institutions-in-Closing-Digital-Divide/

 

Higher Education—Member Institutions

Purdue President: Student Will Be Expelled after Racist Online Statements, Video
https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/Purdue-President-Student-will-be-expelled-after-online-statements-video-571449571.html

Purdue Students React to University’s Decision to Expel Student for Racist Comments Online
https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/Purdue-students-react-to-universitys-decision-to-expel-student-for-racist-comments-online-571458731.html

 

Higher Education—Other

Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV? (via The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/university-like-cd-streaming-age/613291/

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/June2020ChallengesReport [7 pages; PDF]

 

ARL Member Libraries

Aviation Company’s Archive Donated to Cornell Library
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/06/aviation-companys-archive-donated-cornell-library

CRL: LAMP Digitizes Two Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Newspapers
https://www.crl.edu/news/lamp-digitizes-two-nineteenth-century-peruvian-newspapers

NEW Article from the Scholarly Comm Librarian at U of Ottawa: “At-risk articles”: the imperative to recover lost science
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.514/

Penn State University Libraries’ labor unions digitized collections project completed
https://news.psu.edu/story/624202/2020/06/24/academics/university-libraries-labor-unions-digitized-collections-project

 

Libraries—Others

VIDEOS: Discussions on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion from RLUK Events
https://www.rluk.ac.uk/discussions-on-equality-diversity-and-inclusion-from-rluk-events/

VIDEOS: Panel Discussion Recording: “Emergency Access and the Prospect of Controlled Digital Lending in Canada: Perspectives”
https://www.infodocket.com/2020/06/24/panel-discussion-recording-emergency-access-and-the-prospect-of-controlled-digital-lending-in-canada-perspectives/

 

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.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/diversity-scholars-program/

Why Do Measures Fluctuate? Metrics Report—Guidelines for Talking to Management (via LIBER)
https://zenodo.org/record/3902348#.Xu5XfZ4zaRs

Preprint: Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3627788

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/2006.12630

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/use-cases-of-institutional-rdm-support-openaire-blog-series

 

Publishers

ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020: Shortlist Announced
https://www.alpsp.org/News/alpsp-awards-for-innovation-shortlist-jun-2020

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst Librarian
gprice@gmail.com
http://infoDOCKET.com
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