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NCSU Shares Open-Source Software for Crowdsourcing Photos
North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries are making available a free, open-source solution—called lentil—that enables libraries and other organizations to build, moderate, administer, and display collections of photographs posted to...
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COUNTER Offers Travel Awards to Promote International Collaboration
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources)—an international initiative serving librarians, publishers, and intermediaries by setting standards that facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics—is offering two...
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APTrust Appoints Suzanne Thorin Program Director
Suzanne Thorin has been named the first program director for Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), effective August 19, 2013. Thorin was previously dean of libraries and university librarian at Syracuse University. APTrust—a...
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U Washington Names Betsy Wilson Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives
Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, dean of university libraries at University of Washington (UW), has been appointed to the additional role of vice provost for digital initiatives, effective August 2013. This is...
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U Miami Appoints Charles Eckman Dean of Libraries
Charles D. Eckman has been named dean of libraries at University of Miami (UM), effective December 1, 2013. Eckman is currently dean of library services and university librarian at Simon Fraser...
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Accessibility Summit to Be Held in Ottawa in 2014
Carleton University has announced the first International Summit on Accessibility, to be held July 12–15, 2014, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This is the first international conference to promote access and...
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Stephen Wolfram to Speak at Library of Congress Sept. 4
Scientist, inventor, and author Stephen Wolfram will present the first lecture in the free Innovation Talks series at the Library of Congress, sponsored by the Federal Library and Information Network...
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U Connecticut Appoints Martha Bedard Vice Provost for Libraries
Martha Bedard has been named vice provost for University of Connecticut (UConn) Libraries, effective October 14, 2013. Bedard is currently dean of university libraries at the University of New Mexico....
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UVa Launches Archive of Local News Footage from Civil Rights Era
On August 2, the University of Virginia (UVa) Library released an online collection of historic news footage broadcast by Roanoke’s WSLS-TV from 1951 to 1971. According to an article by...
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CRL to Audit CLOCKSS Archive
The Digital Distributed Community Archive (the CLOCKSS Archive) has engaged the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to undertake an in-depth audit of the CLOCKSS preservation archive. CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is...
