Rafia Mirza, Peace Ossom Williamson, and Brett D. Currier (all University of Texas at Arlington) have compiled a Memorandum of Understanding Collection, comprising a workbook, templates for both general and particular project use (such as open access journal-hosting and systematic reviews), and other examples and resources to guide large scale projects that involve collaborations with the library. ...

The University of Michigan Library has released Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, written by Melissa Levine, Richard C. Adler, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, and Brian S. Hall (all University of Michigan). The toolkit, which aims to help users determine copyright status of works in their collections, can be read in sections ...

The latest issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology includes an article by Anna Lauren Hoffman (University of California, Berkeley) and Raina Bloom (University of Wisconsin, Madison) that examines the Google Books project “using the gendered history of librarianship” as a critical lens. The full abstract is reproduced below. Hoffman, Lauren, ...

The newest issue of First Monday includes an article by Jeffrey Pomerantz (EDUCAUSE) and Robin Peek (Simmons College) that attempts to disambiguate the various meanings of the word “open.” The brief introduction is reproduced below. Pomerantz, Jeffrey, and Robin Peek. “Fifty Shades of Open.” First Monday 21, no. 5 (2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6360 Open source. Open ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) posted videos of two talks from their spring 2016 membership meeting in San Antonio, Texas: Victoria Stodden’s (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) opening plenary, “Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research,” and Tom Hickerson and Kathryn Ruddock (University of Calgary), Joan Lippincott (CNI), and Shawna Sadler’s (Deakin University) “The Role of Next Generation ...

Ningning Kong, Michael Fosmire, and Benjamin Dewayne Branch (all Purdue University) have released a pre-print of their article, “Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach” through College & Research Libraries. Kong, Fosmire, and Branch’s article establishes a research framework for academic libraries to develop GIS services. In the academic ...

Sarah Crissinger (Davidson College) has authored a three-part series on “OER Outreach for Newbies” for the ACRLog blog. The first post, “What I Would Do Differently” details current OER faculty stipend projects at Davidson College, and how Crissinger might approach launching similar projects for other institutions: As I answered questions about the stipend program, OER, ...

Krista White (Rutgers University Newark) published “Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files” in Library Resources & Technical Services. White’s paper on determining digitization parameters is aimed at information professionals writing digital project proposals, and offers practical guidelines on approaching such projects. The abstract: ...

Ithaka S+R released the 2015 Faculty survey. Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R Managing Director reflects on the findings: We find key shifts in the way faculty members are thinking about teaching and learning, with implications for both the university and the support provided by the academic library. We find evidence of ongoing changes in how faculty ...

Recordings of the 2016 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, given by Matthew Kirshenbaum (University of Maryland), are now available. Given as a series of three talks collectively titled, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage, Kirschenbaum’s lectures examine “the prospects for archives, public memory, and scholarship” in literature’s digital age: The Transformissions ...

The March 2016 issue of the online newsletter, Computers and Society, includes an article by John D. Martin, III (University of North Carolina) and Carolyn Runyon (University of Tennessee), “Digital humanities, digital hegemony: exploring funding practices and unequal access in the digital humanities.” The abstract is reproduced here: The digital humanities represent, for many researchers, the ...