E-Lert # 307 / Cyberavis no. 307
Friday December 19, 2008 /
le vendredi 19 décembre 2008
CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has created an Ad Hoc Association Planning Committee. The members appointed to the Committee are Sylvie Belzile (Université de Sherbrooke), Bill Curran, Joyce C. Garnett (University of Western Ontario), Ernie Ingles (University of Alberta), Carolynne Presser, Brent Roe (CARL, Executive Director), and Leslie Weir (University of Ottawa, and CARL President).
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L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada a crée un Comité de planification ad hoc pour l’association. Les membres nommés au comité sont Sylvie Belzile (Université de Sherbrooke), Bill Curran, Joyce C. Garnett (University of Western Ontario), Ernie Ingles (University of Alberta), Carolynne Presser, Brent Roe (Directeur général de l’ABRC) et Leslie Weir (Université d’Ottawa et Présidente de l’ABRC).
Letter from CARL to the Honourable James M. Flaherty, Minister of Finance
(December 19, 2008) PDF 
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Lettre de l’ABRC à L'honorable James M. Flaherty, Ministre
des Finances (19 décembre 2008) PDF
(en anglais)
Best wishes for the holidays from the CARL Office! The next issue of the CARL E-Lert will be posted on Friday January 9, 2009.
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Meilleures vœux de la part du Secrétariat de l’ABRC pendant les fêtes ! La prochaine édition du Cyberavis de l’ABRC sera affichée le vendredi 9 janvier 2009.
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Facilitating the future: Europe needs a better way to plan, prioritize
and fund the next generation of research infrastructure
Nature, Volume 456, Issue 7224, December 17, 2008
A newly released 'roadmap' for Europe's future research infrastructure
is, first, a reminder that the continent already has quite a lot of it.
The list ranges from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle-physics
laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to the five campuses of the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory, to the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in
the Canary Islands near Spain. Unfortunately, the roadmap is also a reminder
that Europe still does not have any systematic way to plan, prioritize
or fund these infrastructure projects. Each joint facility to date has
been an ad hoc effort, with scientists often working for years to forge
a coalition of nations willing to pay for it.*
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7224/full/456837b.html
Lectures gain electronic life in Egyptian library
Nature, Volume 456, Issue 7224, December 17, 2008
Scientists from around the world are donating their lectures to the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. These 'golden
PowerPoint' presentations will be available from January for
any academic to download and use. The resource is primarily intended for
teachers’ and scholars’ use in developing countries — provided
they have Internet access. The goal is to gather 100,000 lectures on medicine,
engineering, environmental sciences and agriculture within the project’s
first year.*
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081217/full/456853c.html
Yahoo outdoes Google, will scrub search logs after 90 days
Nate Anderson
ars technical, December 17, 2008
It's a race to the bottom, but in a good way. Yahoo announced an "industry-leading
approach" to online privacy under which it will anonymize its log
data after 90 days. The move comes only months after Google cut its own
retention period for personal data by 50 percent, and it gives Yahoo the
strongest anonymization policy of the big three search engines.*
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081217-yahoo-outdoes-google-will-scrub-search-logs-after-90-days.html
Google denies seeking privileged network access
Rosalie Marshall
Information World Review, December 16, 2008
Google has reaffirmed its commitment to net neutrality, following reports
that it had been seeking preferential treatment from broadband providers
to generate an internet 'fast lane' for its own content. The reports implied
that Google had offered large US phone and cable companies money in return
for privileged network access. The revenue gained by the broadband providers
would help them cope with the growing cost of internet traffic, according
to the reports.*
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2232690/google-denies-seeking
Google Wants 'Fast Lane' For Its Own Content
Reuters, December 15, 2008
In a move that would sidestep network neutrality, Google has proposed
a plan, dubbed "OpenEdge," that would place its servers next
to those operated by network carriers. That would give Google content preferential
treatment, the Wall Street Journal said. And Google may not be alone.*
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2336886,00.asp
Google Deal or Rip-Off?
Francine Fialkoff
Library Journal, December 15, 2008
One public access terminal per public library building. Institutional
database subscriptions for academic and public libraries that secure once
freely available material in a contractual lockbox, already familiar to
librarians who know too well from costly e-journal and e-reference database
deals. No remote access for public libraries without approval from the
publisher/author Book Rights Registry that will administer the program.
And no copying or pasting from that institutional database, though one
can print pages for a fee. Of course, the books are always available for
purchase. Those are just a few of the stipulations from the 200-page settlement
in the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Authors Guild three-year-old
suit against Google.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6618842.html
ARL/ASERL Task Force to Investigate OCLC Policy Change
Library Journal, December 15, 2008
Taking a step likely to be welcomed by many in the cataloging community,
the Association of Southeastern
Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Association
of Research Libraries (ARL) have formed an ad hoc task force
to study the recently disseminated OCLC
policy governing the use and transfer of WorldCat records.
The group has indicated that the study will not be a formal legal analysis,
but will instead attempt to determine what changes in cataloging practice
and policy will be required as a result of the update from OCLC.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6622391.html?nid=2673&rid=reg_visitor_id&source=link
Firms Push for a More Searchable Federal [U.S.] Web
Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post, December 11, 2008
For years, the U.S. government, one of the world's largest depositories
of data, has been unwilling or unable to make millions of its Web pages
accessible. Eric Schmidt as an informal adviser to President-elect Barack
Obama has a unique opportunity to change that with a Senate law dubbed "Google
for government" because it aims to make federal information more accessible.
A wide array of public information remains largely invisible to the search
engines, and therefore to the public, because it is held in such a way
that the Web search engines of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft can't find it
and index it.*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003241.html
Panel on Research Ethics Launches the Draft 2nd Edition of the
TCPS for Public Consultation
December 4, 2008
The Panel on Research Ethics has released a draft of the 2nd edition of
the “Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving
Humans.” The Panel has proposed substantial changes in the draft
2nd edition that include a new set of core principles, clarified definitions,
simplified articles, and new chapters on qualitative research and research
involving Aboriginal peoples.*
http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/pdf/newsandevents/TCPS_Dec_4_en.pdf
ARTICLES
Nouvelles de l’ASTED
Vol. 27, No. 5, novembre/décembre 2008
Les dernières nouvelles en provenance de l'ASTED sont disponibles. À lire
dans ce dernier volume : Le Sommet national sur les ressources humaines
dans les bibliothèques ; Congrès des milieux documentaires
québécois « Investir le monde numérique » (11-14
novembre 2009) ; Bilan 2007-2008 pour la liste de discussion du Réseau
québécois des bibliothèques de la santé (RQBS).*
1er partie : http://www.asted.org/_uploadedcontent/medias/content_0774_0883.pdf
2e partie :
http://www.asted.org/_uploadedcontent/medias/content_0774_0886.pdf
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
December 2008
Two stories covered in this issue: UNC-Chapel Hill Releases YouTube
Archiving Tool,
Digital Preservation Pioneer: Larry Carver.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200812.pdf
21st-Century Skills Are Not a New Education Trend but Could Be
a Fad
Andrew J. Rotherham
U.S. News and World Report, December 16, 2008
In public education today, "21st-century skills" are all the
rage. Educators, business leaders, and elected officials are united around
the idea that there are new skills students must have to be successful
in today's economy. The American job market is changing, of course, and
the nation does need more highly skilled workers than in the past. Most
of the fastest-growing and highest-earning jobs do require more education
and training. There are discrete new skills that students need because
of advances in technology; however, none of these abilities is overall
unique to the 21st century.*
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/12/15/21st-century-skills-are-not-a-new-education-trend-but-could-be-a-fad.html
We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code
Dale Askey
Code4Lib Journal, Issue 5, December 15, 2008
Librarians are among the strongest proponents of open source software.
Paradoxically, libraries are also among the least likely to actively contribute
their code to open source projects. This article identifies and discusses
six main reasons this dichotomy exists and offers ways to get around them.*
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/527
Overload! Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of
too much information
Bree Nordenson
Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2008
The information age is defined by output: we produce far more information
than we can possibly manage, let alone absorb. There are more than 70 million
blogs and 150 million Web sites today—a number that is expanding
at a rate of approximately ten thousand an hour. Two hundred and ten billion
e-mails are sent each day. Say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the
exabyte, five of which are worth 37,000 Libraries of Congress. In 2006
alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent
of three million times the information contained in all the books ever
written. By 2010, it is estimated that this number will increase to 988.
Pick your metaphor: we’re drowning, buried, snowed under.*
http://www.cjr.org/feature/overload_1.php
A new beginning for open access publishing?
Tim Buckley Owen
Information World Review, December 3, 2008
It has been just over a decade since open access (OA) emerged as a radical
new publishing model, challenging the long-established system of commercial
scholarly journal publishing, and the OA movement has recently moved up
a gear with the launch of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
But the OA landscape may itself be about to undergo a radical change with
the acquisition of one of its most successful publishers, BioMed
Central (BMC), by Springer
Science and Business Media, one of the very commercial publishers
the open access movement is supposed to challenge.*
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/analysis/2231886/ideology-commercial-reality
People of the Screen
Christine Rosen
The New Atlantis, Fall 2008
The book is modernity’s quintessential technology—“a
means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of
a turning page,” as the poet Joseph Brodsky put it. But now that
the rustle of the book’s turning page competes with the flicker of
the screen’s twitching pixel, we must consider the possibility that
the book may not be around much longer. If it isn’t—if we choose
to replace the book—what will become of reading and the print culture
it fostered? We have already taken the first steps on our journey to a
new form of literacy—“digital literacy.” The fact that
we must now distinguish among different types of literacy hints at how
far we have moved away from traditional notions of reading.*
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/people-of-the-screen
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Manage and Share Data
UK Data Archive (UKDA)
It is a reality that most research data can be shared with other researchers.
This suite of web pages aims to provide data creators, data managers and
data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing
and storing shareable datasets. Advice has been divided into a number of
key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic.*
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/
2008 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Member Profile Survey Results
The survey responses cover topics such as what type of institutions belong
to the IIPC and the maturity of their web archiving programs, the types
of staff who are working on web archiving in their institutions. The survey
asked questions about the scope of IIPC members' web archives, whether
they publish selection guidelines, and what metrics they use to report
on the archiving activities. The survey results also reports on what crawlers
and curator tools are being used by IIPC members, whether they provide
access and description for research use, and legal issues and policies
related to copyright.*
http://www.netpreserve.org/publications/reports.php?id=005
ARL Statistics 2006-2007 Published
December 18, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics
2006–2007 that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures,
and service activities of ARL’s 123 member libraries. Of these member
libraries, 113 are university libraries (14 in Canada, 99 in the US); the
remaining 10 are public, governmental, and private research libraries (2
in Canada, 8 in the US). The following ARL statistics for 2006-2007 are
also available: Health
Sciences Library Statistics and Law Library
Statistics.*
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/arl-statistics-18dec08.shtml
Blue Ribbon Task Force Issues Report on Data Deluge
December 16, 2008
A blue ribbon task force, commissioned late last year to identify sustainable
economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital
information in the public interest, has issued its interim report.
The report calls the current situation urgent, and details systemic pitfalls
in developing economic models for sustainable access to digital data.*
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/547502/
New ACRL publication: Academic Library Research: Perspectives
and Current Trends
December 16, 2008
Academic Library Research: Perspectives and Current Trends updates
traditional topics that have undergone exceptional, and in some cases unexpected,
change since 1990 as well as reaching into new areas. It combines theoretical
scholarship with real world research, including case studies and user surveys,
designed to inform practice.*
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2008/december2008/acrlperspectivestrends.cfm
The Future of the Internet III
Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie
Pew Internet and American Life Project, December 14, 2008
Many futurists, scientists, and long-term thinkers today argue that the
acceleration of technological change over the past decade has greatly increased
the importance of strategic vision. Technology innovations will continue
to impact us. The question is whether this
process will reflect thoughtful planning or wash over us like an unstoppable
wave. This survey is aimed at gathering a collection of opinions regarding
the possibilities we all face.*
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_FutureInternet3.pdf
ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service
December 11, 2008
ticTOCs is
a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free,
its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent
tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarlyjournals from
more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers,
academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being
published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.*
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/scholarly-journals-new-free-service-makes-keeping-up-to-date-easy/
Règlement européen sur les métadonnées
géographiques
10 décembre 2008
Le règlement de
la Commission européenne s’inscrit dans ce cadre en précisant
les modalités d’application de la directive INSPIRE.
Il porte sur la création et la maintenance des métadonnées
avec un objectif d’interopérabilité dans un contexte
multilingue. Il en détermine les éléments et définit
la classification des thématiques et des services géographiques.*
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:326:0012:0030:FR:PDF
Collections Security: Planning and Prevention for Libraries and
Archives
Karen E. Brown et al
INFOcus, December 2008
Many archives and libraries fail to recognize the vulnerability of their
collections to loss. Collections can be threatened not just by theft and
vandalism, but also by disasters (e.g., fire or flood) and damage from
careless handling or poor environmental conditions. Any repository seeking
to provide the best possible security for its collections must have coordinated
policies that address all of these threats. This article focuses on the
problems traditionally associated with collections security: theft and
vandalism.*
http://www.lyponline.com/infocus/1208/infocus.htm
ARL SPEC Kit 308: Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services
Vivian Lewis and Cathy Moulder
November 2008
Recently, ARL libraries have begun to experiment with an enriched set
of spaces and services to meet the complex teaching, learning, and research
needs of graduate students and faculty. Some libraries have introduced
small sanctuaries (study rooms or lounges) for graduate students and faculty
as distinctly separate from undergraduate spaces. Others are providing
new suites of services like dissertation support, curriculum design, and
learning object design.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec308web.pdf
Statistiques de bibliothèques au 21e siècle :
un nouveau modèle développé par l’Institut de
la statistique de l’UNESCO (ISU), l’Organisation internationale
de normalisation (ISO) et l’IFLA.
Congrès satellite de l’IFLA à Montréal ,
18 et 19 août 2008
La convergence au niveau international des travaux de normalisation sur
les indicateurs statistiques et les mesures de performance favorise les
initiatives régionales et nationales autant au Québec et
au Canada que dans d’autres pays développés et en émergence.
La production collective d’études par étalonnage « benchmarking »,
l’analyse d’impacts « outcomes » et l’apparition
de modèles intégrés d’évaluation comparative
de la qualité des services dont les tableaux de bord sont
certes des activités qui nécessitent une plus grande normalisation.
Ce postcongrès satellite a été présenté à l’Université Concordia à Montréal
dans le cadre du Congrès
mondial des bibliothèques et de l'information 2008,
74e congrès et assemblée générale de l'IFLA.
Les diaporamas des
conférenciers sont disponibles.*
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=4276,15011587&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
[English: press
release; presentations]
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
CASLIS 2009 Seminar - Connecting with Our Clients: Marketing and
Communications
Ottawa, Ontario, January 12, 2009
The CASLIS Government Library and Information Specialists Section is holding
a one-day seminar to explore how we can connect with our clients through
marketing and communications. Ulla de Stricker’s keynote speech will
address ways our profession's practitioners can overcome the “yawn
factor” and how we can effectively sell our value and activities
to decision makers. Registration is open until Tuesday, December 23, 2008.
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http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News1&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=6521
NISO 2009 Webinar Series
Attendees can register for individual sessions or can purchase a subscription
package for the webinar series. Those who have plans to participate in
multiple webinars have the benefit of pre-paying for three and receiving
admission to a fourth at no charge. Registration for the entire 2009 webinar
schedule enables the participant to receive 50% off the registration price
for the entire scheduled series of 12. The series includes among other
topics: digital preservation; data movement and management; assessment
and performance measurement.*
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/
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