« Dokk1 in Aarhus, Denmark, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, was announced winner of the Public Library of the Year Award 2016 at a ceremony during the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) congress in Columbus, Ohio. The international panel of judges recognized Dokk1 as…
« The “ORCID DE” project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) on the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research institutions in Germany. (…) »
« Research libraries assist scholars in demonstrating the value of their scholarly output through citation metrics and other measures. As the forms of scholarly communication change, so do the metrics used for assessing them. The services libraries offer must evolve in concert with these changes. This talk will provide…
« (…) The summit pushed beyond the current relationship between libraries and Wikipedia and its incremental approach to explore how we might collaborate at scale. How might the deep expertise and critical mass of ARL libraries be brought to bear on the Wikipedia project? Where do research libraries and…
« Le Rapport de tendance de l’IFLA, diffusé en 2013, identifiait les facteurs de changement dans l’environnement mondial de l’information.
Traitant de l’accès à l’information, de l’éducation, de la protection de la vie privée, des
« While open access (OA) has become a significant part of scientific communication and academic publishing, qualification issues have been out of focus in the OA community until recent years. Based on findings about the qualification for OA within university-based programs in France and Germany the authors surveyed continuing…
« Ce billet est une transcription d’un guide publié par l’American Library Association concernant la vie privée des utilisateurs des ordinateurs des bibliothèques. Dans un contexte où les représentants politiques tendent à remettre en cause le principe du chiffrement. Il me semble impératif de rappeler…
« Established in an era when the collection was truly at the heart of the library, and when building and maintaining it was the focus of its work, the research library is today moving away from organizational structures centered around building and supporting the general collection. Research libraries are…
« Le Getty Museum constitue un grand établissement culturel américain dédié aux Beaux Arts qui a choisi, il y a trois, de rejoindre le mouvement Open GLAM pour embrasser une politique d’Open Content. Cela signifie que l’institution a décidé de rendre librement réutilisables les reproductions numériques…
« Cet été, le congrès international des bibliothèques IFLA se tiendra à Columbus, Ohio.
Comme tous les congrès IFLA, un ensemble de conférences satellites seront organisées autour de l’événement, dont le premier congrès du groupe d’intérêt spécial LGBTQ Users prévu à…
