E-Lert # 321 / Cyberavis no. 321
Friday April 10, 2009 / le vendredi
10 avril 2009
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CARL Meets with Ministry Officials on Copyright
As a follow-up to their February 3 meeting with the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage, CARL President Leslie Weir and CARL Executive Director Brent Roe, together with Steve Wills, Manager, Legal Affairs, AUCC, had a two-hour meeting on April 8 with officials from Canadian Heritage (led by Barbara Motzney, Director General, Copyright Policy Branch) and Industry Canada (led by Albert Cloutier, Director, Copyright and International Intellectual Property Policy Directorate). This meeting was a very good opportunity to discuss in detail with the officials who craft legislation the key interests of CARL and AUCC concerning a new copyright bill that may be introduced in the current Parliament.
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Réunion entre l’ABRC et des fonctionnaires du ministère au sujet du droit d’auteur
Suite à leur réunion du 3 février avec l’honorable James Moore, Ministre du Patrimoine canadien, Leslie Weir (Présidente de l’ABRC), Brent Roe (Directeur général de l’ABRC) et Steve Wills (Gestionnaire, Affaires juridiques de l’AUCC) ont eu une réunion de deux heures le 8 avril avec des fonctionnaires du Patrimoine canadien (à la tête, Barbara Motzney, Directrice générale, Direction générale de la politique du droit d’auteur) et d'Industrie Canada (à la tête, Albert Cloutier, Directeur, Direction de la politique du droit d’auteur et de la propriété intellectuelle internationale). Cette réunion a été une très bonne occasion de discuter en détail avec le corps d'arbitrage qui établit la législation les intérêts principaux de l’ABRC et de l'AUCC au sujet d'un nouveau projet de loi sur le droit d’auteur qui pourra être présenté au Parlement actuel.
CARL Invited to Public Consultation on ACTA
On Monday April 6, CARL was among a number of organizations that Foreign
Affairs and International Trade Canada invited to participate at a public
roundtable consultation on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA). Presentation slides and a document that summarizes key elements
under discussion are available on the Foreign Affairs and International
Trade Canada Website. Diego Argáez attended for CARL. A fuller
report will be made to the CARL Government Policies and Legislation Committee.
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/fo/intellect_property.aspx?lang=fra
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L’ABRC invitée a une consultation publique sur l’ACRC
Le lundi 6 avril, l’ABRC a été présente parmi
un nombre d’organisations qui ont été invitées
par Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada pour
participer à une table ronde publique sur l’Accord commercial
relatif à la contrefaçon (ACRC) qui est actuellement proposée.
Le diaporama de la présentation et un document qui résume
les éléments principaux faisant l’objet de discussion
sont disponibles sur le site Web d’Affaires étrangères
et Commerce international Canada. Diego Argáez a assisté pour
l’ABRC. Un rapport plus détaillé sera présenté
au Comité des politiques et de la législation gouvernementales
de l’ABRC.
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/fo/intellect_property.aspx?lang=eng
NEWS / NOUVELLES
La presse se rebelle contre l'info gratuite sur l'internet
Chris Lefkow
Agence France-Presse, 8 avril 2009
La révolte gronde parmi les patrons de presse américains
qui en ont assez de voir fondre recettes publicitaires et abonnements au
profit de sites internet d'information gratuits qui pillent allègrement
leurs médias, en toute illégalité... et quasi-impunité.
«Nous sommes fous furieux et nous n'allons plus nous laisser faire,»
a lancé le patron d'Associated Press (AP), une coopérative
de plus de 1.400 journaux.*
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200904/08/01-844829-la-presse-se-rebelle-contre-linfo-gratuite-sur-linternet.php
Le PDG de Google offre ses conseils à la presse en péril
Agence France-Presse, 8 avril 2009
Le PDG de Google Eric Schmidt a offert ses conseils aux patrons de presse
américains qui tentent de trouver un nouveau modèle commercial
pour ce secteur en difficulté, les appelant à collaborer avec
le géant américain de l'internet. S'exprimant lors d'une rencontre
de l'Association Américaine des Journaux à San Diego (Californie,
ouest), M. Schmidt a loué le rôle que joue la presse dans une
société démocratique et a insisté sur le fait
que les journaux devaient considérer Google comme un partenaire et
non comme un rival.*
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200904/08/01-844650-le-pdg-de-google-offre-ses-conseils-a-la-presse-en-peril.php
Canadian Research Receives $26 Million for Cutting-Edge Research
Infrastructure
April 7, 2009
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced $26 million to support
117 projects in 29 Canadian research institutions, enabling 148 of the country’s
brightest researchers to conduct their cutting-edge research with world-class
equipment and facilities. This investment, under the CFI’s Leaders
Opportunity Fund (LOF), continues support for the innovative research infrastructure
that helps stimulate the various sectors of our economy.*
http://www.innovation.ca/en/news?news_id=126
Des experts en sécurité critiquent le service Street
View de Google
Le Devoir, 6 avril 2009
Le nouveau service «Street View» de Google, qui permet aux
internautes de parcourir virtuellement une ville et qui sera bientôt
disponible pour 11 villes canadiennes, dont Montréal et Québec,
soulève le scepticisme des experts en matière de vie privée
du pays. Le gouvernement canadien a affirmé qu'il avait entamé
des discussions de «hauts niveaux» avec Google alors que l'entreprise
se prépare à une seconde tournée des villes canadiennes
pour photographier les rues et tout ce qui s'y passe.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/06/244069.html
Students less prepared for university education than in 2005, according
to Ontario university faculty
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), April
6, 2009
According to over 55 percent of Ontario university faculty and librarians who responded to a recent questionnaire first-year students are less prepared for university education than students from just three years earlier. Survey participants considered the following to be common challenges among first-year students: lower level of maturity, poor research skills as evidenced by over reliance on Internet tools like Wikipedia as external research sources, expectation of success without the requisite effort, and an inability to learn independently.* Summary: PDF
Secrecy slowing drug research: leading scientist urges transparency
to deliver drugs to patients sooner
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star, April 4, 2009
Renowned University of Toronto biochemist and respected laboratory leader
Aled Edwards says the current method of creating drugs – one shrouded
in secrecy and driven by patents and money-making – has failed. Too
few medicines have come to market in the past 30 years, which means too
many people still get sick and die from disease. Edwards believes the only
way to get more medicines to patients is for industry and academia to work
together – and to post all their findings free on the Internet.*
http://www.thestar.com/article/613662
La crise financière secoue aussi les universités
québécoises
Claireandrée Cauchy
Le Devoir, 3 avril 2009
L'Université de Toronto est éprouvée par la crise
financière. La caisse de retraite et le fonds de dotation de l'établissement
ontarien ont enregistré une perte de 1,3 milliard en 2008, soit un
rendement négatif de 30 %. Bien que moins dramatique, la situation
est néanmoins préoccupante dans les universités québécoises,
tant et si bien que les recteurs ont réclamé des assouplissements
aux règles sur les régimes de retraite pour limiter les dégâts.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/03/243515.html
Ralph Manning retires from LAC
CLA Digest, April 3, 2009
Ralph Manning retired from Library and Archives Canada after a long and
distinguished career. LAC hosted a reception on March 12 for Mr. Manning
where friends and colleagues celebrated his numerous achievements. Over
the span of his 37-year career with the National Library of Canada and LAC,
he contributed to countless numbers of national and international committees
and working groups, and was instrumental in the development of standards
and policies relating to many aspects of the library profession. One of
his key interests has been the provision of services for people with print
disabilities, and he will continue to work on that front as a member of
the CLA Working Group for the Initiative for Equitable Library Access.*
http://www.cla.ca/docs/digest/Digest_4_03_2009.pdf
Google’s Plan for Out-of-Print Books is Challenged
Miguel Helft
The New York Times, April 3, 2009
The dusty stacks of the nation’s great university and research libraries
are full of orphans — books authors and publishers have essentially
abandoned. These works are out of print, and while they remain under copyright,
the rights holders are unknown or cannot be found. Millions of orphan books
may soon get a new legal guardian. Google has been scanning the pages of
such books and others as part of its plan to bring a digital library and
bookstore of unprecedented scope to computer screens. Critics argue that
the settlement, which is subject to court approval, will give Google virtually
exclusive rights to publish the books online and to profit from them. Some
academics and public interest groups plan to file legal briefs objecting
to this and other parts of the settlement before a review by a federal judge
in June.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
UNESCO, Library of Congress and partners launch World Digital Library
April 1, 2009
UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 31 partner institutions are planning
to launch the World Digital Library, a web site featuring unique cultural
materials in libraries and archives from all over the world, at UNESCO Headquarters
on April 21. The site will provide free, unrestricted public access to manuscripts,
maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs.*
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28484&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
BAnQ et la Société des musées québécois
poursuivent leur travail de mobilisation - Un réseau patrimonial
numérique québécois est nécessaire
31 mars 2009
Le processus de concertation lancé par Bibliothèque et Archives
nationales du Québec (BAnQ) il y a maintenant trois ans pour dresser
un état des lieux de la numérisation patrimoniale au Québec
a connu un aboutissement important ces dernières semaines, avec la
présentation officielle des résultats d’une enquête
réalisée par BAnQ en partenariat avec la Société
des musées québécois sur l’ensemble du territoire
au cours de l’année 2008. Les réponses de 324 institutions
muséales, bibliothèques, centres d’archives et autres
organisations à vocation patrimoniale qui ont accepté de participer
au sondage soulignent la pertinence d’une initiative de numérisation
panquébécoise.*
http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/a_propos_banq/communiques/2009/com_2009_03_31.jsp?bnq_resolution=mode_1280
OCULA New Librarian Residency Award
Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA), March 31, 2009
The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA), a division
of the Ontario Library Association (OLA), is requesting applications from
academic libraries (colleges and universities) in Ontario for a pilot residency
program for new librarians. OCULA is awarding $20,000 to help fund
this position to the successful academic library for the upcoming academic
year. The purpose of the residency program is to facilitate recruitment
of new librarians and provide entry-level professional opportunities in
academic and research library settings. *
http://www.accessola.com/ocula/bins/content_page.asp?cid=2649-2990
John Teskey honoured by UNB
March 24, 2009
John Teskey, Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick was awarded
the UNB (Fredericton) 2009 President’s Medal. Mr. Teskey continues
to challenge conventional wisdom, testing assumptions about how libraries
ought to deliver services, and emphasizing the numerous benefits of the
technological solutions available to us. His bold vision has produced impressive
results: UNB had one of the first library websites in the country, and UNB
had the first library-based humanities computing centre in Canada (the second
only in North America at the time) for example. The physical manifestation
of John’s vision is the Harriet Irving Library Learning Commons, which
has quickly become a major hub of intellectual life on campus.*
http://www.unb.ca/faculty/awards/JohnTeskey.html
Ontario university faculty sound warning over
declining quality
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), March
23, 2009
A report from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
(OCUFA) expresses major concern about declining quality of university education
in Ontario. University faculty and librarians point to larger classes, fewer
full-time faculty hires as signs of a decline. “Faculty and librarians
are on the frontline of university education. They witness the impacts of
cuts and constraints every day, and now they are sounding the alarm,”
said Brian E. Brown, OCUFA’s President, and Professor of Visual Arts
at the University of Windsor. “Again and again, the respondents came
back to concrete examples of how our universities are falling behind.”
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Key findings: PDF
New University Librarian at UBC
March 20, 2009
Ingrid Parent has been appointed UBC's University Librarian effective July
1, 2009. Ms. Parent is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Documentary
Heritage Collection Sector at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) responsible
for the development, description, and preservation of Canada’s documentary
heritage. She has also led the development of LAC’s digital agenda.*
http://www.vpacademic.ubc.ca/Appointment_of_Parent.pdf
ARTICLES
Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge
system of the academic journal
Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 4, April 6, 2009
Cope and Kalantzis take the academic journal as their reference point in
this article seeing it as symptomatic of underlying knowledge systems. They
consider the academic journal in a moment of enormously unsettling, uncertain
and exciting times, and look at seismic stresses in the workings of the
academic journal, and analyze these for signs of a deeper epistemic disruption
— in the very ways we know.*
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2309/2163
Reflections on University Press Publishing
Bill Harnum
Academic Matters, February / March 2009
Developments over the last few decades have changed some primary concerns
of scholarly book publishers within university presses. The enterprise of
publishing remains a vital part of the ecology of the academy, yet the future
direction of book publishing is unclear. While that future is less
dire than some may believe, there are undoubtedly challenges that the scholarly
publishing community needs to address.*
http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=2423&category=featured_articles
Selling the Academy Without Selling Out
Ken Steele
Academic Matters, February / March 2009
Faculty at Canadian universities are rightly concerned with a number of
threats to academic quality and integrity, including the growing ranks of
contingent faculty, larger class sizes, corporate research sponsorship,
grade inflation, and a “new managerialism” on campus. University
marketing, Steele argues, should not be one of them. Marketing, far
from dumbing down the university mission, can have the opposite effect,
raising entrance averages and enhancing institutional selectivity.*
http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=2078&category=featured_articles
Scientists say Obama gets it, and Canada doesn't
Harris MacLeod
The Hill Times, March 31, 2009
Scientists are not worried about whether Canada's Minister of State for
Science and Technology Gary Goodyear believes in evolution, rather they
fear that his understanding of research will see scientists follow funding
dollars to the United States. It has been suggested that the government's
budget shows that they do not understand the importance of scientific research
and that it was more politically motivated than well-thought-out. Genome
Canada, an organization that supports medical and genetic research projects
that was shutout of the budget, much to the surprise of many in the scientific
community, has been cited as a case in point. *
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/march/30/obama_gets_it/&c=1
Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future
Sarah L. Shreeves and Melissa H. Cragin
Library Trends, Special Issue on Institutional Repositories, Volume 57,
Number 2, Fall 2008
Institutional repositories (IRs) exist in a constantly shifting landscape.
There is still no clear consensus on their role in the academic environment.
Low article manuscript archiving rates have dampened hopes that IRs would
have a significant impact on scholarly publishing models. Preservation programs,
a stated goal of many IRs, are often not well established. In many cases,
IRs are not part of a larger vision for services the library can provide
to the institution, but are isolated projects without a strong support base.
Institutions are beginning to explore the role of IRs in the collection
of materials like data sets. Given this environment, where will IRs be in
the next five or ten years? This issue of Library Trends contains a slate
of articles from prominent practitioners and researchers in the field, offering
a range of perspectives on the current state of IRs in academic institutions
and reflections on their future.*
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib.57.2.html
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
E-journals: their use, value and impact
Research Information Network, April 2009
Journal publishers have been providing online access to full-text scholarly
articles since the late 1990s, ushering in a revolution in the scholarly
communications process. A very high proportion of journal articles is online
– 96 per cent of journal titles in science, technology and medicine,
and 86 per cent of titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. This
RIN report examines how researchers interact with journal websites and whether
enhanced access to journal articles has led to greater productivity, research
quality and other outcomes. Findings in the study suggest that researchers
are savvy when it comes to using e-journals, finding the information they
need quickly and efficiently, and that higher spending on e-journals is
linked to better research outcomes.*
http://www.rin.ac.uk/use-ejournals
A field guide to misunderstandings about open access
Peter Suber, April 2009
“The woods are full of misunderstandings about OA. They thrive
in almost every habitat, and the population soars whenever a major institution
adopts an OA policy. Contact between new developments and new observers
who haven’t followed the annual migrations always results in a colorful
boomlet of young misunderstandings. Some of these misunderstandings are
mistaken for one another, especially in the flurry of activity, because
of their similar markings and habitat. Some are mistaken for understanding
by novices unfamiliar with the medley of variant plumage, adaptive camouflage,
and deceptive vocalizations. This field guide should help you identify
25 of the most common visitors to your neck of the woods.”
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/openaccess_fieldguide.shtml
Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians, 2nd
Edition
Lesley Ellen Harris
ALA Editions, 2009
The revised second edition of this book conveys the basics of digital licensing
for librarians in plain-language, and helps demystify the process. Updated
material covers licensing terminology and changes in technology, opportunities
for cost savings, further information on the global aspects of licensing,
a comprehensive digital license checklist, and a discussion on educating
organizations that have signed license agreements. Librarians play an important
role in license agreements. This book gives library professionals the tools
needed to negotiate and organize license agreements.*
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2630
Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report
from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections
March 2009
Special collections in ARL libraries encompass the full gamut of research
topics and formats. They have the potential to serve every discipline in
the academic curriculum, and they can be useful to all possible clients
both within and beyond institutions of higher education. In an environment
where mass digitization of books and periodicals for Web access is accelerating,
and aggregated databases are part of the shared landscape of scholarly communication,
accumulated special collections increasingly define the uniqueness and character
of individual research libraries. If they encapsulate the essence of a research
library, it is vital that special collections be allotted sufficient resources
for their good management. In spite of financial, legal, and technical challenges
libraries face in their efforts to collect, describe and provide access
to rare and historical resources, there are abundant opportunities to expose
truly unique research materials.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/scwg-report.pdf
Deep Packet INSPECTION: A Collection of Essays from Industry Experts
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 2009
How does society reconcile the technological benefits and privacy implications
of new technology? Deep packet inspection is just one seemingly neutral
technological application that can have a significant impact on privacy
rights and other basic civil liberties, especially as market forces, the
enthusiasm of technologists and the influence of national security interests
grow stronger. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada website
features a collection of essays about DPI from Leading academics and professionals
working in telecommunications, law, privacy, civil liberties and computer
science.*
http://dpi.priv.gc.ca/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Picking the winners: SCONUL Conference, June 10-12, 2009
Dorset, UK, June 10-12, 2009
Picking the Winners, SCONUL’s 2009 Conference, brings together a
wide range of respected plenary speakers to help write the guide to the
library turf for the next ten years. Nine parallel sessions will cover such
topics as lean staff management, learning object repositories, mobile learning,
commercial content development, virtual learning environments (VLEs), the
textbook’s future in the electronic age, Web 2.0 and libraries, and
the future of librarians in the workforce. A survey of students will produce
a vox pop video of interviews “straight from the horse’s mouth.”
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http://www.sconul.ac.uk/events/agm2009/
The Second International m-libraries Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia, June 23-24, 2009
This conference will explore and share work carried out in libraries around
the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via
a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will
be of interest to researchers, technical developers, managers and library
practitioners. Keynote speakers have been confirmed: Ken Banks, founder
of kiwanja.net, Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Commonwealth of Learning, Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist,
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC),Carie Page, Programme Coordinator
for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, and Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President
of Athabasca University.*
http://m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/
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