During a pandemic when library print materials are inaccessible, one of the best ways librarians can serve the public is by ensuring that digital history is preserved. And one of the most important tools to preserve digital history is Archive-It, developed by the Internet Archive to preserve whole websites through their various iterations and transformations.
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Crowd-Sourced Unlatching of Curricular Books: A Joint Pilot by the California State University, Knowledge Unlatched, and the Internet Archive
Updated May 13, 2020
My CNI presentation felt like it went really well, despite a couple wireless freezes during the session. A video recording is now available on Vimeo or embedded in the session event page, linked from the Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting website.
Read More »Academic Senate of the California State University Passes ORCID Resolution (AS-3412-20/FA)
The Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU) today passed resolution AS-3412-20/FA in robust support of ORCID. The vote was without dissent: 47 ayes, 0 nays, and 2 abstentions.
Read More »In Defense of the National Emergency Library: A Call to Library Solidarity and Partnership with the Internet Archive
Public and university libraries have paid hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, to own, catalog, and preserve print books, only now to be rendered utterly incapable of providing access to them. That is a massive waste of public funds and decades of work by librarians.
Read More »CSU Explores the Possibility of a Google Books Partnership
Just heard yesterday that our CSU Council of Library Deans (COLD) approved a request I’d made to begin exploring a possible system-wide partnership with Google Books.
Read More »ORCID-ShareYourPaper.org Integration in the Works
My schedule yesterday (April 21st) included hosting a really excellent meeting with Joe McArthur (lead developer of OpenAccessButton and ShareYourPaper.org), Sheila Rabun (ORCID rep. for Lyrasis) and Shawna Sadler (ORCID Engagement Manager for the Americas).
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