E-Lert # 308 / Cyberavis no. 308
Friday January 9, 2009 / le vendredi
9 janvier 2009
CARL COMMUNIQUÉ
/ COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
Shortly following the 2008 elections, CARL sent congratulatory letters to all newly appointed MPs. Some letters were a general introduction of CARL, while others addressed certain Copyright issues. As of January 9, CARL has received 19 letters in response, and has scheduled two appointments.
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À la suite des élections de 2008, l'ABRC a envoyé des lettres en félicitant les nouveaux membres du Parlement. Il y avait quelques lettres à propos l'ABRC, ainsi que des lettres plus précises à propos du Droit d'auteur. À compter du 9 janvier, l’ABRC a reçu comme réponse 19 lettres, et nous avons deux rendez-vous prévus.
The CARL Board has named Carol Hixson (University of Regina) as the CARL
Designate to the Association of Canadian Universities and Colleges of Canada
(AUCC) Negotiating Committee.
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Le Conseil de l’ABRC a nomme à Carol Hixson (University of Regina) désignée de l’ABRC au Comite de négociation de l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC).
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Quand apprendre devient un jeu d'enfant
Alexandre Sheilds
Le Devoir, 9 janvier 2009
La commission scolaire publique Eastern Townships fournit un ordinateur portable à 5600 élèves... qui réussissent mieux. La CS Eastern Townships a été la première au Canada à mettre systématiquement des ordinateurs portables à la disposition de ses élèves, et ce, de la troisième année du primaire à la fin du secondaire. Près de 5600 jeunes les utilisent ainsi chaque jour en classe. Un programme onéreux, développé sans l'aide financière du ministère de l'Éducation, mais qui aurait permis d'améliorer les résultats et le comportement des élèves.*
Heather Joseph defends the NIH policy against the Conyers bill
Peter Suber
Open Access News, January 7, 2009
In a December
1 letter, Executive Director of SPARC,
Heather Joseph, answered five follow-up questions from Howard Berman to
supplement her testimony at the September 2008 hearing
on OA, the NIH policy,
and the Conyers
bill ("Fair Copyright in Research Works Act").
Berman is the last chairman of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet,
and Intellectual Property, which held the hearing. John Conyers, chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee, has since abolished
the subcommittee.*
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/01/heather-joseph-defends-nih-policy.html
Twitter enregistre entre 5000 et 10 000 nouveaux membres par jour
Agence France-Presse, 7 janvier 2009
Le site de mini-blogues Twitter enregistre chaque jour entre 5000 et 10 000 nouvelles adhésions et la plupart de ses membres se sont inscrits sur le site cette année, indique une étude publiée mardi. L'étude réalisée par la société HubSpot indique que 70% des quatre à cinq millions de personnes utilisant Twitter sont membres du site depuis 2008 et 20% le sont depuis moins de 60 jours. «Il y a un an Twitter formait une communauté relativement petite (...), maintenant c'est à la mode», indique l'étude.* HTML
Stanford U. Unveils iPhone Application That Will Soon Let Students
Locate Each Other
Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 2009
Stanford University released a free iPhone application that connects with
the university’s student-registration system and offers a range of
services for students on the go. The software will soon enable students
to call up a campus map that shows the current locations of other students
in the area who also have iPhones (and who have granted permission for the
service to spot them). Two students enrolled at the university led the development
of the application.*
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3536&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Outlet
The Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press, December 23, 2008
The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign
news, has now surpassed all other media except television as an outlet for
national and international news. According to the survey by the Pew Research
Center for the People & the Press, conducted Dec. 3-7, 2008, among 1,489
adults, 40% of respondents say they get most of their news about national
and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September
2007.*
http://people-press.org/report/479/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-so
Téléchargement illégal: des Québécois
déjà sous surveillance
Ian Bussières
Le Soleil, 21 décembre 2008
Le site Web technaute.ca annonçait vendredi que Vidéotron
avait commencé à envoyer des avis à certains de ses
abonnés indiquant que l'entreprise avait reçu une plainte
affirmant que des activités associées à leur adresse
IP portaient atteinte à des droits de propriété intellectuelle
d'un tiers. Bell se livrerait également à cette pratique,
selon Georges (nom fictif), un abonné du service Sympatico adepte
du téléchargement de pièces musicales, mais aussi de
films.*
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/200812/20/01-812244-telechargement-illegal-des-quebecois-deja-sous-surveillance.php
Canadian Consortium for Research gives budget advice to Ministers,
Leaders and MPs
December 17, 2008
The Canadian Consortium for Research (CCR) recommends that research and
innovation be a major consideration in preparing the government’s
next budget and an integral component of any stimulus package put forward
to strengthen Canada’s economy. The CCR is the largest
organization in Canada whose primary concerns are the funding of research
in all sectors and support for post-secondary education.*
http://en.ccr-ccr.ca/?section_id=4&content_id=37
ARTICLES
Always on: Libraries in a world of permanent connectivity
Lorcan Dempsey
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 1, January 1-5, 2009
We have adopted mobile communication more widely and quickly than any other
technology. The proliferation of networking technologies provides multiple
connection points offering different grades of experience (the desktop,
cell phone, xBox or Wii, GPS system, smart phone, ultra–portable notebook,
etc). While these devices converge in various ways, they are utilized for
different purposes. Libraries have been working to develop network–ready
services. Mobile communication intensifies this activity and adds new challenges
as information practitioners consider what it means to be mobile–ready.
Such a shift in organizational thinking has implications for how space is
used, for research skills, and for how collections are developed.*
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070
Une école pour les «natifs» de l'univers numérique
Michel Dumais
Le Devoir, 5 janvier 2009
Pour Marc Prensky, celui à qui l'on reconnaît la paternité
du concept de Digital Natives, les technologies ont contribué à
changer l'éducation. Et alors que nous basculons d'un monde analogique
à un univers numérique, ces changements iront en s'accélérant.
Dans un essai publié en ligne en 2001 (Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants),
Marc Prensky, auteur, chercheur, consultant et concepteur de jeux vidéo,
ne pouvait que constater à quel point les élèves d'aujourd'hui
diffèrent de leurs enseignants.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/01/05/225781.html
Crystal ball gazing at the year ahead in tech law
Michael Geist
Toronto Star, January 5, 2009
Technology law and policy is notoriously unpredictable and crystal ball
gazing in Canada this year is particularly challenging given the current
political and economic uncertainty. With that caveat, Michael Geist offers
some predictions for the coming months.*
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/561554
Mobile technologies, mobile users: implications for academic libraries
Joan K. Lippincott
ARL Bimonthly Report No. 261, December 2008
The current issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly
Report highlights mobile technologies and mobile users for academic libraries.
Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
Information, discusses mobile technologies, learning, and libraries with
examples of innovative ways in which a limited number of academic libraries
are already designing services around mobile technologies and mobile users.
She also lays out the issues that should be discussed on individual
campuses that would like to examine their role in the move to mobile.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arl-br-261.pdf
The letters of the law: a lively year in Canadian technology law
and policy
Michael Geist
Toronto Star, December 22, 2008
There was rarely a dull moment over the past twelve months in law and technology
with no shortage of legislative proposals, controversial court cases and
public battles over the future of the Internet in Canada. A look back at
2008 from A to Z.*
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/557161
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Humanities Indicators Prototype (HIP)
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
Owing to a lack of reliable, comprehensive, and consistently updated statistical
data for the purpose of charting trends and drawing conclusions about the
humanities in 1998, the Academy began working closely with major humanities
institutions to develop an infrastructure for the compilation, analysis
and publication of comprehensive trend data for the humanities. The Humanities
Indicators is a result of this consultative work and is modeled after the
Science and Engineering Indicators published biennially by the National
Science Board, and in its present form is a prototype. The data now available
as the Humanities Indicators Prototype have been compiled from existing
sources. In 2010, the Indicators will include original data the Academy
will collect in collaboration with several learned societies via the Humanities
Departmental Survey.*
http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/humanitiesData.aspx
Footnote.com and The National Archives Launch Largest Interactive
World War II Collection Online
December 5, 2008
Footnote.com
and the National Archives and Records Administration announced the release
of the first ever interactive World War II collection, which includes an
interactive version of the USS
Arizona Memorial, WWII
Hero Pages, and WWII
photos and documents
previously unavailable on the internet. Included in the WWII collection
is the first-ever interactive version of the USS
Arizona Memorial. Similar to the Vietnam War Memorial project
that Footnote.com released last March, the USS Arizona Memorial is a fully
searchable digital image of the national monument.*
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2009/nr09-27.html
Citations des ressources électroniques dans les publications
scientifiques : Analyse comparée
Ghislaine Chartron et Elisabeth Caillon
Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche,
octobre 2008
Depuis ces dix dernières années, l’offre de ressources
électroniques en STM puis progressivement en SHS s’est considérablement
développée. Les bibliothèques consacrent désormais
une grande part de leur budget à l’acquisition de ces resources.
Les études qui s’intéressent à l’usage
de ces multiples ressources électroniques en accès libre ou
sous licence se focalisent généralement sur deux méthodes
: d’une part les analyses quantitatives de consultation des fichiers,
il s’agit alors d’exploiter les traces de téléchargement
des fichiers selon des protocoles en voie de normalisation, notamment par
le standard Counter , d’autre part les analyses qualitatives
basées sur des entretiens avec les usagers. L’indicateur d’utilisation
de ces ressources numériques que les auteures de ce rapport proposent
dans cette étude concerne le degré d’intégration
de ces ressources dans les pratiques de citations des chercheurs.*
http://media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/Science_et_societe/15/6/rapport-decembre-2008-final-Chartron-Caillon_40156.pdf
Research Library Virtual Resources & Instructional Initiatives:
2008 Survey Results
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Respondents to a survey conducted by ARL during the late winter and early
spring of 2008 described a widely varied landscape of instruction initiatives.
The survey invited all ARL libraries to describe innovative and noteworthy
experiments in three areas: instruction programs, virtual resource development,
and space initiatives.*
http://www.arl.org/rtl/roles/vrii/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
The Library as Place (Live Online)
January 29, 10:00 to 12:00 EST
96% of respondents to a recent OCLC report entitled, Perceptions of Libraries
and Information Resources, had visited a physical library. A third of those
who responded, however, also indicated that their library use has decreased
during the past three to five years. This seminar will centre on the question
of how libraries measure up to other venues, such as bookstores and
cafes that offer similar access to information. By considering how users
view and use the physical library and discussing potential marketing strategies,
participants will have the opportunity to explore innovative methods public
and academic libraries are using to reach out to their users and bring them
inside to creatively address users' needs in education, entertainment,
and research.*
http://www.solinet.net/?sc_itemid={3B213991-77ED-4251-B86D-085B08379D23}&EventId=1-ADJZB
Strategies for Multimedia Archives
Ghent, Belgium, February 6th 2009
Cultural, heritage and media institutions face numerous challenges when
moving even a part of their collections into the digital environment. Some
key issues that newly developing multimedia archives deal with and which
the conference will address are: positioning an institution to the need
for funding; creating and maintaining context in a multidisciplinary digital
archive; identifying an audience and knowing how to reach it; distribution
models. This event brings together international speakers with experience
in different fields to further discussions and provides ideas for organizations
planning to take the step towards or to delve further into the digital world.*
http://www.conference.bom-vl.be/
Bridging the gap - 5th International
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP5) Conference
Stockholm, Sweden, June 29 – July 3, 2009
Library practitioners constantly face the challenge of demonstrating the
effectiveness of services they design, advocate, and provide. Whether this
challenge occurs within a climate of expansion, of reaffirmation or of survival,
we have a professional responsibility to demonstrate to our users, our managers,
our colleagues and our other stakeholders that we remain in touch with the
evidence base for library and information practice. Evidence based practice
provides the profession a means for identifying the best information, the
best services and the best outcomes for specific user groups or for the
public at large.*
http://blogs.kib.ki.se/eblip5/
* Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
