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CARL to participate at Federation Congress "super booth"
Ottawa, Ontario, May 23-31, 2009
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) will be present at the 2009 Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Carleton University in May by way of sharing a Book Fair booth under the general banner of “Research @ your Library” with a number of library-related organizations. Our presence will be an opportunity to bring CARL and its projects to the awareness of many of the 5,000 humanists and social scientists attending Congress.
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L’ABRC participera à un « superkiosque »
au Congrès des sciences humaines
Ottawa (Ontario) du 23 au 31 mai 2009
L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) sera présente au Congrès 2009 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines qui aura lieu à Carleton University au mois de mai en partageant un kiosque au Salon du livre, sous la manchette générale « La recherche @ votre bibliothèque », avec plusieurs organismes connexes aux bibliothèques. Notre présence sera une occasion d'apporter l’ABRC et ses projets à la conscience de plusieurs des 5.000 humanistes et spécialistes des sciences sociales qui seront présents au Congrès.
Preliminary Program for CARL 2009 Annual General Meeting
The preliminary programme for the 2009 CARL Annual General Meeting, May 26-29, is on the CARL Website.
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Programme provisoire pour l’Assemblée générale annuelle du 2009 de l’ABRC
Le programme
provisoire pour l’Assemblée générale du 2009
de l’ABRC, du 26 au 29 mai, est disponible sur le site Web de l’ABRC.
NEWS
/ NOUVELLES
Ready for digital stacks?
Michael Macaulay
Arizona Daily Wildcat, March 25, 2009
If certain books students need for their research essays are still checked
out at their respective campus libraries, they may soon be able to access
them online for free, thanks to a Google lawsuit. Google anticipates public
and university libraries will participate by making their collections available
to be digitized if the deal is approved. For every 10,000 students enrolled
at a university, the company would provide its library with one terminal
for free access to the Google Books Database. However, for students wanting
to access the same content on their home computers, there would be fees
involved, according to Peter Botticelli, assistant professor at the UA School
of Information Resources and Library Sciences.*
http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2009/03/25/News/Ready.For.Digital.Stacks-3682110.shtml
Black days for those dreaming of the ivory tower
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail, March 23, 2009
McGill graduate student Ashley Burgoyne sums up the outlook this spring
for freshly minted PhDs dreaming of getting on the tenure track. Scary.
The global economic crisis is affecting campuses across the country. As
universities trim their budgets, many schools put hiring plans into deep
freeze. The picture grows grim when one adds to that scenario the federal
cuts to research funding, a new reluctance by senior faculty to retire,
and dwindling endowment funds to support scholarship.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090323.wgraduates23/BNStory/National/home
New Zealand yanks copyright law that would force
ISPs to cut off violators
CBC News, March 23, 2009
The New Zealand government announced that a controversial law that would
have forced internet service providers to cut off service to repeat copyright
violators will not come into force as scheduled. "Allowing section
92A to come into force in its current format would not be appropriate given
the level of uncertainty around its operation," Commerce Minister Simon
Power said in a statement. He maintained that large-scale copyright infringement
through "unlawful" file sharing remains an important issue.*
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-new-zealand-copyright.html
Canadian writers, publishers gather to consider Google book digitization
CBC News, March 23, 2009
Canadian publishers and authors are exploring the legal ramifications of
Google's massive book-digitization initiative. They are holding sessions
in advance of the May 5 deadline for authors and publishers to opt out of
Google's plan to digitize 20 million books and distribute them online and
to new devices. The Writers' Union of Canada recommends that authors accept
the settlement deal, which if approved by a U.S. court, will apply to writers
in more than 200 countries, including Canada.*
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/03/23/google-book-scanning.html
Organizing a World of Knowledge
Elizabeth Redden
Inside Higher Ed, March 23, 2009
Mapping where and in what forms international connections and research
are found on campus can be a challenge at "globalized" universities.
Try mapping what’s happening across multiple universities, however,
and one could end up – as a dozen researchers recently did –
with over 10,000 pages in field notes and interview transcripts. “Despite
wide consensus among higher education leaders that U.S. universities are
undergoing a process of 'globalization,' there is little agreement about
just what globalization means, what propels it, or what intellectual, political,
and ethical consequences it will bring for American higher education,"
states a new report
from the Social Science Research Council, Academic Internationalism:
U.S. Universities in Transition.*
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/areastudies
Information revolution, c. 1455
Murray Whyte
Toronto Star, March 21, 2009
As the digital age quickly gathers momentum, University of Toronto scholar
Alexandra Gillespie says it's worth looking back on the Gutenberg moment.
The lesson: big changes never happen overnight. Gillespie studies the history
of the book in manuscript and print.*
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/605192
Canada must avoid U.S.-style copyright laws
Gillian Shaw
Vancouver Sun, March 20, 2009
Prominent copyright academic and lawyer Lawrence Lessig, professor of law
at Stanford Law School, says Canada should not follow the United States
in enacting "extremist" copyright laws as filmmaker Brett Gaylor
sees his film on copyright infringement, RiP: A Remix Manifesto, open in
select U.S. and Canadian cities. In a demonstration of the very idea the
film explores, A
Remix Manifesto is being billed as the first "open source"
documentary, a film that will grow and evolve as viewers download their
own chapters for it and use parts of it in remixes.*
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+must+avoid+style+copyright+laws+expert/1408636/story.html
MIT opens access to its research articles
CBC News, March 20, 2009
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to making its published
research findings available to the public free online. The new open access
policy went into effect after the faculty unanimously voted in favour of
it. "The vote is a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice
— that what we value is the free flow of ideas," Bish Sinyal,
chair of the MIT faculty, said in a statement.*
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/20/tech-090320-mit-open-access.html
At ACRL, One Librarian Looks to the Very, Very, Distant Future
Andrew Albanese
Library Journal, March 19, 2009
In a session of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
conference
billed as “not for the faint of heart,” University of Guelph
librarian and chief information officer Michael Ridley challenged librarians
to imagine the library of the distant future. Ridley spoke of a “post-literate”
future where people and machines meld seamlessly together. Ridley got right
to the point. “What we do is toast,” he told members of the
audience. “Are reading and writing doomed? The answer is an unequivocal
yes.”*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6645328.html?nid=2673&rid=reg_visitor_id&source=title
Le livre numérique : idées reçues et propositions
Texte diffusé au Salon du livre, à l'occasion des Assisses
professionnelles du livre, organisées par le Syndicat national de
l’édition, 17 mars 2009.
Le livre numérique n’est pas encore un marché significatif
en France (30 à 40 millions €, soit 1 % du chiffre d’affaires
de l’édition, essentiellement sur support physique de type
CD/DVD), mais il fait déjà couler beaucoup d’encre.
L’idée, dans cette note, c’est de rétablir les
faits sur quelques idées reçues et lancer quelques propositions.
Par exemple : un livre numérique doit coûter moins cher
qu'un livre papier, le livre numérique va remplacer le livre papier,
etc. *
http://www.sne.fr/pages/informations/livre-electronique-03-09.html
Privacy activist asks FTC to halt Google apps
Declan McCullagh
CNet News, March 17, 2009
A privacy advocacy group asked that the [U.S.] Federal Trade Commission
shut down Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and the company's other Web
apps until government-approved "safeguards are verifiably established."
Should the FTC grant the request, hundreds of millions of Internet users
would be unable to access their e-mail or documents until the agency's lawyers
in Washington, D.C., were satisfied with the revised applications. The outage
would extend to businesses that pay for access to Google Apps.*
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10198740-38.html
Media face ‘tsunami’ challenge of internet and financial
crisis
Andrew Cardozo
The Hill Times, March 16, 2009
Could this be the revolution that the internet has been waiting for? Television and newspaper companies are in trouble like never before - trouble that has been brewing for some time and the global financial crisis is turning their plight into a perfect storm. Rather than being a complimentary technology, the internet can potentially replace traditional media and the challenges to the latter amount to far more than young people using the internet.
La Commission européenne préconise de doubler le
financement de la recherche et de l'innovation dans le domaine des technologies
de l'information et des communications
13 mars 2009
La Commission européenne a proposé une nouvelle stratégie
qui vise à placer l'Europe au premier rang mondial dans le domaine
des technologies de l'information et des communications (TIC). La stratégie
proposée invite les États membres et les entreprises du secteur
à mettre leurs ressources en commun et à intensifier leur
collaboration dans les domaines de la recherche et de l'innovation liées
aux TIC. La stratégie présente également des projets
d'innovation TIC emblématiques qui déboucheront sur des infrastructures
de services modernes dans des secteurs tels que les soins de santé
et l'efficacité énergétique.*
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/397&format=HTML&aged=0&language=FR&guiLanguage=en
Publishers denounce JISC open access report
Information World Review, March 9, 2009
The findings from a study commissioned by the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) conclude that sharing research information via open access
models can potentially save the UK higher education sector millions of pounds.
Nevertheless, Publishers have reacted angrily to the report condemning it
as “a think piece resting on a number of assumptions mostly derived
from the authors’ own estimates”.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/comment/2238325/model-muddle
Transformation des Presses scientifiques du CNRC
6 mars 2009
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/fra/edition/transformations%20communique_F.html
[English: HTML]
ARTICLES
Are Libraries Worth Investing in?: Finnish University Libraries
and their Effect on the National Economy
Vesa Kiviniemi et al
LIBER Quarterly, Volume 19, Number 1, 2009
This article explores the correlation between the growth of the gross national
product (GNP) of Finland and the library materials expenditures of the country’s
academic libraries during thirty years (1977–2006). By analyzing statistical
data, the authors found that there is some correlation between the trends
of GNP and academic library investments. Although it is possible to view
different possibilities interpreting this outcome, they draw the conclusion
that it is clearly worth investing in libraries as one tool to improve the
knowledge economy.*
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000277/article.pdf
Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’
and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
Inge Angevaare
LIBER Quarterly, Volume 19, Number 1, 2009
Inge Angevaare discusses the types of digital information research libraries
typically deal with and what factors might influence libraries’ decisions
to take on the work of data curation themselves, to take on the responsibility
for data but market out the actual work, or to leave the responsibility
to other organizations. Digital data are fragile. While some would argue
they are probably no more fragile than printed books and journals, we have
not yet learned as much about preserving digital information compared to
preserving printed material and digital research data remain much more fragile.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000278/article.pdf
Humanities Journals Confront Identity Crisis
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2009
Senior scholars seem to be submitting fewer unsolicited manuscripts to
traditional humanities journals than they used to. "The journal has
become, with very few exceptions, the place where junior and midlevel scholars
are placing their work,” according to Bonnie Wheeler, president of
the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Technology and changing habits,
moreover, have called into question the nature of the traditional humanities
journal. Well-established humanities journals editors have mixed feelings
about the changes, but they are not Luddites.*
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i29/29a00102.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group:
A Report from the Second Workshop of the IDEA
Carolyn Hank and Joy Davidson
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 15, Number ¾, March / April 2009
The second workshop of the International Data curation Education (IDEA)
Working Group was held December 5, 2008, in Edinburgh, Scotland, following
the 4th International Digital Curation Conference. The UK's Digital Curation
Centre (DCC), the US's Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS),
and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (SILS) organized the event. Curation of digital
assets is a central challenge and opportunity for libraries, archives, museums,
data centers, and other data-intensive organizations. The need for skilled
professionals to perform, manage, and respond to a range of procedures,
processes and challenges across the life-cycle of digital objects is evident
in the cultural heritage, science, commerce, health, education and government
information sectors.*
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march09/hank/03hank.html
Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?
Vincent Rossmeier
Salon.com, March 24, 2009
Fittingly for a site that would unexpectedly mark a new era in the evolution
of human knowledge, Wikipedia was born in January 2001, at the dawn of the
new century. In less than a decade, Wikipedia has expanded from a
lone first article in English (a test post on the site with the text "Hello,
World!") to more than 10 million articles in 250 languages.
But perhaps even more important than the free online encyclopedia’s
size is our increasing dependence on the site. It consistently ranks with
Google and Yahoo as one of the top 10 Web destinations. Andrew Lih, an academic
and a media critic, looks at history behind the virtual encyclopedia in
his new book, "The
Wikipedia Revolution."
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/03/24/wikipedia/index.html
Farewell to the Printed Monograph
Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed, March 23, 2009
The University of Michigan Press announced that it is shifting its scholarly
publishing from a primarily traditional print operation to one that is mostly
digital. Press officials expect over 50 of the 60-plus monographs the press
publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released electronically
only within two years. While readers will have print-on-demand service available
to them, the press will consider the digital monograph the norm. Many university
presses are experimenting with digital publishing models, but the Michigan
announcement may be the most dramatic to date by a major university press.*
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan
Knowledge Overload
Ken Coates
Inside Higher Ed, March 23, 2009
Students, scholars, librarians and the general public all face a major
challenge dealing with the deluge of information. While grappling with Web
2.0 and all of its implications, however, we pay too little attention to
another reality of our time: that the many ways of disseminating knowledge
have grown well beyond our capacity to assimilate information. There is
hardly a field of inquiry that has not experienced massive growth during
the past three decades. Those in multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary
areas of inquiry face even more daunting challenges.*
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/23/coates
What's Wrong with Copyright: Educator Strategies for Dealing
with Analog Copyright Law in a Digital World
J. Patrick McGrail and Ewa McGrail
Innovate: journal of online education, Volume 5, Issue 3, February / March
2009
Current copyright law was formulated before the digital technology became
widely available and well before Web 2.0 changed the way we create and share
information. The authors argue that copyright law has failed to keep up
with the last 30 years’ social and legal changes that have accompanied
the technological developments. As a result, it has become both cumbersome
and impossible to abide by copyright law completely. McGrail and McGrail
describe how current law challenges educators and universities, offer strategies
for dealing with copyright in the new millennium, and issue a call to revise
copyright law in a way that acknowledges and is consistent with the realities
of Web 2.0.* [Note: free registration required to view full article]
http://innovateonline.info/?view=article&id=630&action=synopsis
Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?
Geoff Brumfiel
Nature, Volume 458, March 19, 2009
There is a major shift underway in the manner that science meets the media.
Owing to a generalized downturn, especially in newspaper revenues, the traditional
media are shedding full-time science journalists along with various other
specialist and indeed generalist reporters. Meanwhile, researcher-run blogs
and websites are growing apace in both number and readership. Geoff Brumfiel
addresses the question whether blogs can also meet the additional roles
of science watchdog and critic that the traditional media aim to fulfill.*
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090318/full/458274a.html
Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought
Emily Walshe
The Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 2009
Librarian and professor at Long Island University in New York, Emily Walshe,
likens the commodification of digital books on the Kindle e-reader to swapping
a baloney sandwich for Jell-o pudding, and getting just a spoon in the trade.
Walshe argues, “In our rush to adopt new technologies, we have too
readily surrendered ownership in favor of its twisted sister, access.”
She cautions as more content “gets digitized, commercialized, and
monopolized, our cultural integrity is threatened,” and the free and
balanced flow of information that contributes to democratic society is jeopardized.*
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0318/p09s01-coop.html
Focusing on Process: Exploring Participatory Strategies to Enhance
Student Learning
Juan-José Gutiérrez
Academic Commons, January 7, 2009
The ideal setting of a liberal arts college, with small classes in a seminar-like
environment, is far from the reality of large groups in big classrooms that
most instructors face in larger higher education institutions. Gutiérrez
describes and analyses the redesign and implementation of a peer review
process for a relatively large class, focusing primarily on student writing.
He also challenges the assumption that a large group setting impedes participatory
learning, and proposes, purposeful adoption of widely available information-technology
tools can contribute to participatory learning in a large classroom environment.*
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/focusing-process-exploring-participatory-strategies
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Chiffres clés 2009: statistiques de la culture
Chantal Lacroix
La Documentation Française, 2009
Chiffres clés, statistiques de la culture est devenu la
référence de la connaissance de la vie culturelle française.
Il permet d’en appréhender les principaux aspects sous un angle
statistique. Sans doute ne décrit-il pas toute la richesse, la diversité
et la complexité de la vie culturelle, mais il fournit les outils
statistiques d’analyse des principales caractéristiques et
des grandes tendances de l’économie de la culture, de ses pratiques,
des fréquentations de ses équipements. Il explore ainsi le
patrimoine et l’architecture, l’archéologie, les musées,
les arts plastiques, les bibliothèques, le livre, la presse, le disque,
l’art lyrique, la musique et la danse, le cinéma, la vidéo,
sans oublier les technologies de l’information, les enseignements
supérieurs artistiques et culturels, l’éducation artistique,
les droits d’auteur et droits voisins, la propriété
intellectuelle et les échanges extérieurs.*
http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/culture/deps/2008/pdf/Chiffres-cles-2009.pdf
What would Google do?
Jeff Jarvis
Harper Collins, 2009
Jeff Jarvis, a new media columnist for the Guardian, faculty member of
the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, and author
of the blog Buzzmachine.com, offers up 40 rules to manage and live by in
the Google era within the context of the Internet generation’s world
view. The book is partly thought experiment, prophesy, manifesto and survival
manual.* [View free online]
http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061709715&wt.mc_id=pub_wm-av
Evaluation of the sixth framework programmes for research and technological
development 2002-2006
Report of the Expert Group, February 2009
This report presents an expert group’s conclusions and recommendations
in an ex-post evaluation of the rationale, implementation and achievements
of the EC and EURATOM Sixth Framework Programmes (FP6). The analysis strongly
supports the view that investments in research and innovation are the best
way to ensure Europe's
competitiveness at a global scale.* (PDF)
International Symposium: Our Professional Identities in a World
Gone Digital
11-13 February 2009, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
This three-day event brought together professionals from Library and Archives
Canada, the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States,
the National Archives of the United Kingdom and the Archiefschool in the
Netherlands. Presenters spoke on the role of archivists, records managers
and information professionals in the modern age. The UBC student chapter
of the Association of Canadian Archivists organized and hosted the event.*
Presentation slides available at:
http://www.interpares.org/ip3/sponsored/event(aca-20090211).cfm
Community Based Research Canada
Community Based Research Canada (CBRC) is a network of people and organizations
engaged in Community-Based Research. CBRC creates and mobilizes knowledge
for action by communities, civil society, policy makers, and stakeholders
in all key areas affecting Canada’s future social, economic, and environmental
sustainability. Member Universities, colleges and other research institutions
are focusing on community-based research to harness the knowledge and capacity
of communities to use the resources and expertise of students, faculty and
researchers for community benefit.*
http://communityresearchcanada.ca/?action=links
7 Things You Should Know About…
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About...
series has concise information on emerging learning technologies and related
practices. This resource consists of a series of briefs each one focusing
on a single technology or practice and describing what it is, how it works,
where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and higher learning. Some
uses one can put the briefs to are: to enhance faculty development activities,
to initiate a dialogue with senior administrators regarding emerging technologies
and their potential use on campus, and keeping abreast of emerging technologies.*
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/ELIResources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/7495?time=1237404535
What does it cost and who pays? Scholarly communications globally
and in the UK
Research Information Network, December 11, 2008
This event explained the report and the economic model used to provide
a breakdown of the costs and flows involved in the process of scholarly
communications. Participants at the event also presented additional alternative
publishing models to encourage people to think about using them to examine
the economic impact of these alternatives. Presentations and other materials
are available to download.*
http://www.rin.ac.uk/what-cost
[Other related material for download: Report
/ Model /
Podcast]
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow
April 8 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific; noon Mountain; 1pm Central)
This introductory webinar will briefly cover the history of institutional
repositories and discuss the key benefits and the possible obstacles to
a successful IR implementation. Participants will also consider the future
of institutional repositories within the larger context of the rapidly changing
scholarly communication landscape.*
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/ir_series.cfm
The Chronicle Technology Forum
Arlington, Virginia, April 5-7, 2009
At The Chronicle Technology Forum, leading thinkers in higher education
will discuss how technological innovations are changing the way colleges
and universities work. Meet top designers from Apple and hear their vision
for the classroom of the future, learn about the changes in digital scholarship
that are coming to your campus from University of Richmond President Ed
Ayers, and meet hundreds of colleagues who are using smart technology strategies
to bring real change to their institutions.*
http://chronicle.com/technologyforum/?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Museums and the Web 2009: the international conference for culture
and heritage online
Indianapolis, Indiana, April 15-18, 2009
MW2009 features speakers from all over the world, presenting their latest
work and research findings. All of the papers are available on the conference
Web site in advance of the meeting. The conference will feature a variety
of sessions exploring all aspects of the creation, development, maintenance
and evaluation of Web sites in museums, cultural and heritage organizations.*
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/speakers/index.html
LIBER 38th Annual General Conference 2009
Toulouse, France, June 30 - July 3, 2009
The general theme of the conference is ‘Innovation through Collaboration’,
and the conference will offer a wide range of session formats: plenary sessions,
break out sessions, current issues, master classes, and poster sessions.
Organized jointly by Toulouse University Libraries Network and the Library
Services of the University of Toulouse 1, the Conference will be hosted
by the Social Sciences University of Toulouse 1, a campus university very
close to the historical centre of the city.*
English: http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/
/ Français: http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/component/content/article/17
32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, July 19-23, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Conference is a major international forum for the presentation of new research
results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad
field of information retrieval. The SIGIR focuses on all aspects of information
storage, retrieval and dissemination, including research strategies, output
schemes and system evaluations.*
http://www.sigir2009.org/Program/workshops
