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University of Missouri Libraries Adds Collection of World War II Posters to Digital Library
From the University of Missouri Libraries: 25, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which took place over six years between 1939 and 1945. In honor of the anniversary, the Digital Initiatives department began digitizing posters from the War Poster Collection housed in our libraries’ Special [...]
Reports: Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions
From The Verge: Microsoft’s library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft’s digital subscriptions to leading US newspapers, are disappearing in a shift described inside [...]
PALCI and Authors Alliance Announce Consortium-Wide Partnership to Strengthen Scholarly Communication and Information Policy
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement (via PALCI): The partnership was made possible through financial commitments from PALCI and 26 of its member libraries, including four Leadership Circle contributors who chose to make a deeper investment in both the partnership and the broader PALCI community. Their combined support advances [...]
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Online Event: University of Kansas Libraries Launches Global Speaker Series on Librarianship
From the University of Kansas Libraries: The University of Kansas Libraries will launch “Global Conversations in Librarianship,” a new speaker series highlighting international perspectives on libraries and information work, with Ukrainian library leader Tetyana Yaroshenko as its inaugural speaker Feb. 26. Yaroshenko, deputy director for research and international affairs at the State Scientific and Technical […]
EveryLibrary Releases 2025 Impact Report
From EveryLibrary: The threats to libraries, librarians, and readers in 2025 included censorship, funding erosion, and unprecedented political interference. At the federal level, President Trump ordered the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, fired the Librarian of Congress and the Archivist of the United States, and institutionalized censorship at Department of Defense […]
Journal Article: “Ten Years of a ‘Quiet Culture War’: Where Does It Stand Now?”
The article linked below was published today by Insights, a UKSG publication. Title Ten Years of a ‘Quiet Culture War’: Where Does It Stand Now Author Rick Anderson University Librarian, Brigham Young University Source Insights DOI: 10.1629/uksg.712 Abstract In 2014, I wrote ‘A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for […]
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National Library of Korea Opens 30 Million National Bibliography Records to the Public
Note: Blurbs below were translated into English with the use of Google Translate. From The Asia Business Daily (via Google Translate): The National Library of Korea announced on the 12th that it will develop an OpenAPI service based on the National Bibliographic Linked Open Data (LOD) through the ‘2025 National Key Data Open Support Project’ […]
Journal Article: Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes
The article linked below was recently published by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. Title Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes Authors Kun Dai The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yabing Liu The Education University of Hong Kong Xiaofan Zhang The Chinese University of Hong […]
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University of Washington Researchers Analyzed Which Anthologized Writers and Books Get Checked Out the Most From Seattle Public Library
From UW: Seattle Public Library, or SPL, is the only U.S. library system that makes its anonymized, granular checkout data public. Want to find out how many times people borrowed the e-book version of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” in May 2018? That data is available. The hitch is that the library’s data set contains nearly 50 […]
Digital Collections: Now Available Online via the KC Library: Over 500,000 Photos From the Kansas City Star’s Historical Photo Archives
\From the Kansas City Star (via the Kansas City Public Library): Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of KCStarPhotos.org, a new project from the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star. It’s a free website with a database of hundreds of thousands of images from The Star’s archives of the pre-digital era of photography. It’s […]
