Last Updated on July 6, 2020, 12:42 pm ET
Top of the Review
Mellon Foundation Announces Transformation of Its Strategic Direction and New Focus on Social Justice
https://mellon.org/news-blog/a
Mellon Foundation Announces $5.25 Million Grant for “Million Book Project, Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons”
https://www.infodocket.com/202
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Releases Digital Preservation Framework
https://www.archives.gov/press
New York Times Will Start Using Uppercase “Black” to Describe People and Cultures of African Origin, Both in the US and Elsewhere
https://www.nytco.com/press/up
ARL Member Libraries
A Brave New World of Scholarship: Rochester Librarians Are Pushing for a Shift in Scholarly Publishing
https://www.library.rochester.
CRL Awarded MacArthur Foundation Grant to Support Repository of Documentation on Disappearances of Persons in Mexico
https://www.crl.edu/news/crl-a
Emprunter jusqu’à 100 documents, maintenant possible à la Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval
https://www5.bibl.ulaval.ca/ac
Google Translate: Borrow up to 100 Documents, Now Possible at the Laval University Library
https://translate.google.com/#
Digital Preservation, Web Archives, U of Minnesota “Capturing a Shifting Reality”
https://www.continuum.umn.edu/
Penn Libraries: Judaica Digital Humanities Launches the Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana
https://www.library.upenn.edu/
William and Shelby Conti Donate Original Musical Scores to Be Held in LSU Libraries Special Collections
http://news.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/
Libraries—Other
Nationwide Alliance Launches New Video to Highlight Value of Library Print Collections during Time of Pandemic
http://www.aserl.org/wp-conten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Notes from the Summer WEST Members’ Meeting
https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2020
OpenAPC and Knowledge Unlatched Launch Public Dataset on Book Processing Charges
https://www.knowledgeunlatched
Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review—Key Takeaways and Answers to Attendee Questions (Slides and Summary from OASPA Webinar)
https://oaspa.org/oaspa-webina
Higher Education—Member Institutions
Architect Paul Williams’s Archive, Thought Lost to Fire, Is Safe
https://www.latimes.com/entert
Washington State University: Board of Regents Increases Tuition; WSU Athletics Faces $99 Million Deficit
https://dailyevergreen.com/820
Policy and Statements
ACM US Technology Policy Committee Urges Suspension of Private and Governmental Use of Facial Recognition Technologies
https://www.acm.org/media-cent
Articles, Data, Reports, and Tools
Building a PubMed Knowledge Graph
https://www.nature.com/article
EPA Needs to Improve Oversight of Research Assistance (via EPA OIG)
https://www.epa.gov/sites/prod
How Should Journal Editors Address Accusations of Racism?
https://www.timeshighereducati
General Data Protection Regulation: Analysis and Guidance for US Higher Education Institutions
https://fpf.org/wp-content/upl
Just Launched: Muftiships Web Archive
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu
New Research Center Report Shows COVID-19 Effects on Postsecondary Enrollment
https://www.studentclearinghou
Full-Text Report: https://nscresearchcenter.org/
Preprint: The Sci-hub Effect: Sci-hub Downloads Lead to More Article Citations. (arXiv:2006.14979v1 [cs.DL])
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.149
Teaching with OER During Pandemics and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-04
When Speech Assistants Listen Even Though They Shouldn’t
https://news.rub.de/english/20
Why Openly Available Abstracts Are Important — Overview of the Current State of Affairs
https://101innovations.wordpre
Other Items
Canada: Google Acquires Smart Glasses Company North, Whose Focals 2.0 Won’t Ship
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06
Knight Foundation Announces A Wide Range of New Grants to Support Research on Internet Governance
https://knightfoundation.org/p
iOS 14 Flags TikTok, 53 Other Apps Spying on iPhone Clipboards
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c
TikTok and Other Apps From China Banned in India
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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