Community Updates - Page: 40

• Assessment in Action Teams Selected by ACRL

  This spring the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) selected teams from 75 institutions, including 9 ARL member libraries, to participate in the first year of a new assessment...

• Public Library in 2020 Explored by Clifford Lynch

  CNI executive director Clifford Lynch discusses one possible future for American public libraries in a chapter of a new book edited by Joe Janes, Library in 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries...

• UIUC Appoints John P. Wilkin University Librarian, Dean of Libraries

  John P. Wilkin, associate university librarian for publishing and technology at University of Michigan and executive director of HathiTrust, has been named university librarian and dean of libraries for the...

• Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough

  SPARC’s student initiative, the Right to Research Coalition, has released a video interview of Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore who won the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair...

• Institute for Internet Culture, Policy & Law to Highlight Privacy, Accessibility

  Privacy and accessibility issues will be featured at this year's Cornell University Institute for Internet Culture, Policy, and Law (ICPL), to be held September 18–20, 2013, at Cornell. The oldest...

• Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC

  This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...

• E-Book Landscape Surveyed by Clifford Lynch

  CNI executive director Clifford Lynch provides an overall assessment of the e-book situation in the latest American Libraries digital supplement, “Digital Content: What's Next?” In his article, “Ebooks in 2013:...

• Iowa Appoints John Culshaw University Librarian

  John P. Culshaw, senior associate dean of libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder and 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow, has been named university librarian for the University of...

• Clifford Lynch Profiled as Digital Preservation Pioneer

  The Library of Congress blog The Signal: Digital Preservation featured CNI executive director Clifford Lynch in its Digital Preservation Pioneer series on May 29. The profile's author, Mike Ashenfelder, writes,...

• Peter Suber Named Director of Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication

  The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have appointed SPARC senior researcher Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC),...

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