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Elections for 2009 - 2010 Board of Directors
We are pleased to note that Sylvie Belzile (Université de Sherbrooke) has been elected to the CARL Board of Directors and that Lorraine Busby (Memorial University of Newfoundland), acclaimed, will be serving for a second term. Their term of office will be from May 2009 to May 2011. The new Board will meet for the first time on Thursday May 28, 2009 in Montréal, Québec.
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Élections au Conseil d'administration 2009 – 2010
Nous sommes heureux de noter que Sylvie Belzile (Université de Sherbrooke) a été élue au Conseil d'administration de l’ABRC et que Lorraine Busby (Memorial University of Newfoundland), acclamé, servira un deuxième terme. Leur mandat sera de mai 2009 à mai 2011. Le nouveau conseil se réunira pour la première fois le jeudi 28 mai 2009 à Montréal, Québec.
NEWS / NOUVELLES
China, Russia, Canada top copyright pirates, says U.S.
National Post, April 30, 2009
China and Russia once again top the list of countries with the worst record
on preventing piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods, the U.S. Trade Representatives
office said on Thursday. The USTR also said it was placing Canada
on the "priority watch list" for the first time because of increasing
concern over Canada’s needs to reform its copyright laws and to strengthen
border enforcement.*
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1550068
Ignatieff fulfills commitment to raise funding of science agencies
in House
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 23, Number 7, April 30, 2009
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has made good on his promise to raise the research community’s concerns over funding of the granting councils and other S&T programs in the House of Commons. On April 21, Ignatieff lambasted the Conservative government for its strategic review-related $148 million in cuts to the granting councils’ budgets and the lack of long-term funding for Genome Canada. Ignatieff made his commitment to raise S&T in Parliament in his response to a group of scientists who wrote a March 16th open letter to the prime minister and leader of the opposition.*
The innovation imperative: Acting today for tomorrow's prosperity
Ian Thomas
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 23, Number 7, April 30, 2009
Thomas reflects on how far Canada has traveled in two decades utilizing the "innovation engine" to become a more globally competitive player. He argues that , at the national level, Canada has not traveled far, and this was borne out last year, when the Conference Board of Canada graded Canadian innovation with a ‘D' in innovation. Even if, at the regional/provincial level, there have been many advances and successes, the sum of these parts does not make an encouraging whole.*
Open Access Directory celebrates its first year online - Increasing
demand drives success of Open Access resources
April 30, 2009
The popular Open Access Directory (OAD)
marked its first anniversary. The OAD is a wiki, hosted by Simmons College,
where community contributors create and maintain simple, factual lists about
Open Access to science and scholarship. Launched one year ago, and operated
entirely by an international corps of volunteers, the wiki has quickly grown
from six to 40 lists and has served over 250,000 unique users.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0430.shtml
Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal
Miguel Helft
The New York Times, April 28, 2009
The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications
of Google’s settlement with authors and publishers over its Google
Book Search service. However, the inquiry does not necessarily mean that
the department will oppose the settlement, which is subject to a court review.
But it does suggest that some of the concerns raised by critics, who argue
the settlement would unfairly give Google an exclusive license to profit
from millions of books, have resonated with the Justice Department.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/technology/internet/29google.html?_r=2&ref=technology
Hathi Trust Releases Temporary Catalog
Roy Tennant
Library Journal, April 28, 2009
The Hathi Trust, having put up an experimental full-text search,
has just released a new catalog
of the digital content in the Hathi Trust. Built using VUFind,
the catalog has all the features expected of the latest search systems -
faceted narrowing of search results, various sorting options, suggestions
of similar items, cover art (or title page images of older works), etc.
There are presently around 2.8 million items represented, although only
about 16% of the volumes are freely available. Searchers can be limited
to "fullview" items. The current discovery catalog is temporary,
pending the release of a permanent catalog that is being developed by OCLC
in conjunction with the HathiTrust partners. *
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/640043864.html
Google Agrees to Books Settlement Delay
Ryan Singal
Wired, April 27, 2009
Google and the Authors Guild agreed to give the world’s authors and
publishers at least two more months to contemplate — and possibly
coordinate opposition to — the looming settlement that gives the search-and-advertising
giant a de facto monopoly to create the world’s digital library, according
to documents filed in the case. A small coalition of copyright holders,
including folk singer Arlo Guthrie, John Steinbeck’s heirs and sci-fi
god Philip K. Dick’s trust, asked a federal court judge to give all
book authors another four months to comprehend and respond to the 334-page
settlement proposed last October after the Author’s Guild sued Google
for massive copyright violations in its Google Book Search product.*
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/google-agrees-to-books-settlement-delay/
Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec - La recherche
est arrivée à un «moment critique»
Jessica Nadeau
Le Devoir, 26 avril 2009
Malgré la crise économique et les nombreux défis qui
l'attendent, la recherche en santé au Québec se porte mieux
que jamais et pourrait devenir «la nouvelle marque de commerce de
la province sur la scène internationale», estime M. Yves Joannette,
chercheur et nouveau président-directeur général du
Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec. Jouissant déjà
d'un rayonnement important au Canada et à l'étranger, la recherche
québécoise en santé ne cesse de se développer
et de se démarquer.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/25/247343.html
La langue française de toute la Francophonie sera scrutée
à la loupe
Thierry Haroun
Le Devoir, 25 avril 2009
Le 9 avril dernier, l'Université Laval a inauguré l'Observatoire
démographique et statistique de l'espace francophone (ODSEF). Cette
initiative est financée à hauteur de 650 000 dollars sur une
période de quatre ans, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec le gouvernement
du Québec (par l'entremise du ministère des Relations internationales),
l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) et l'Agence universitaire
de la Francophonie (AUF). Les études menées à l'Observatoire
permettront de suivre l'évolution du français au sein des
populations de la francophonie.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/25/247365.html
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Announces Appointment of New Librarian
and Archivist of Canada
April 24, 2009
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the appointment of Daniel J. Caron
as Librarian and Archivist of Canada, effective April 25, 2009. Mr. Caron,
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Management and Horizontal Integration
Sector, Library and Archives Canada, replaces Ian E. Wilson, who is retiring
from the Public Service after a very distinguished career.*
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=2540
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Le PM annonce la nomination du nouveau bibliothécaire et
archiviste du Canada
24 avril 2009
Le Premier ministre Stephen Harper a annoncé la nomination
de Daniel J. Caron à titre de bibliothécaire et archiviste
du Canada, à compter du 25 avril 2009. M. Caron, sous-ministre adjoint
principal, Secteur de la gestion intégrée et des initiatives
horizontales, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, remplacera M. Ian
E. Wilson, qui prend sa retraite de la fonction publique après une
brillante carrière.*
http://www.pm.gc.ca/fra/media.asp?category=1&id=2540
EU parliament seeks to extend music rights
Agence France Presse, April 24, 2009
The European Parliament has voted in favour of extending musicians' royalties
to 70 years, a sizeable increase on the current 50 years but less than an
original EU Commission initiative. The move comes as ageing rockers such
as the remaining Beatles and the Rolling Stones prepare to see their right
to royalties on their recordings expire.*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itDm-H4q4Bkm3nWCC-aIOo_h-fJw
Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London
Alison Flood
The Guardian, April 24, 2009
It's not elegant and it looks like a large photocopier, but the Espresso
Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world
since Gutenberg invented the printing press over 500 years ago and made
the mass production of books possible. Launching at Blackwell's Charing
Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand
in five minutes, while customers wait.*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/24/espresso-book-machine-launches
London Book Fair panel calls JISC e-textbook study
‘myth-shattering’
April 23, 2009
A panel at the London Book Fair believes early results from JISC
Collections’ recently concluded e-books
observatory project have shattered a key myth. During this
two-year project, JISC provided UK university students with free access
to 36 core e-textbooks in science, technology and medicine to all UK university
students, to monitor their usage patterns. The report overturns the presumption
that increased e-book usage will negatively affect sales. Its findings reveal
that, in reality, e-book usage actually has ‘no impact’ on print
sales. Another myth - that only younger students, the so-called ‘Google
generation’ use the online resources – was also proven false.
Usage was actually widespread across all age groups.*
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2009/04/ebooks.aspx
Copyright Battle Looms for Docs Who 'Grew Up Google'
Brian Blank
ABC News, April 22, 2009
Harvard Medical School Student Carolina Solis has witnessed firsthand the
difficulty that some medical professionals encounter when it comes to accessing
copyright-protected research online. While legislators rush to transform
health care, a debate brews over access to this information and whether
medical professionals should be forced to pay for it.*
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=7391207&page=1
Les eurodéputés adoptent un amendement sur la liberté
d'accès à Internet
Le Monde avec AFP, 22 avril 2009
La polémique autour du projet français de lutte contre le
piratage sur Internet empoisonne les négociations finales sur une
vaste réforme européenne censée améliorer la
concurrence dans le marché des télécoms. Les eurodéputés
de la commission Industrie ont adopté, mardi 21 avril, par 44 voix
pour, 4 contre et 2 abstentions, un amendement
à ce "paquet télécoms" selon lequel "aucune
restriction ne peut être imposée aux droits et libertés
fondamentaux des utilisateurs finaux sans décision préalable
des autorités judiciaires".*
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2009/04/22/piratage-les-eurodeputes-adoptent-un-amendement-sur-la-liberte-d-acces-a-internet_1183710_3214.html#ens_id=1162478
ARTICLES
The age of e-discovery Lawyers face daunting challenges in sifting through mountains of e-documentsDonalee Moulton
The Lawyers Weekly, May 1, 2009
In the online environment, discovery is e-discovery. The new legal landscape,
however, is not a mirror image of the old way of working, and it is fraught
with challenges. Complicating matters is current practice which has not
changed with the times. “What we’ve had are traditional rules
about discovery being applied to electronic documents. It simply hasn’t
worked well,” says Kelly Friedman, a partner with Ogilvy Renault LLP
in Toronto. One reason for the disconnect, she noted, is volume. “You’ve
had this real data explosion and that affects discovery.” *
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=28&number=48&article=4
Google is watching you
Robert Sibley
Ottawa Citizen, April 26, 2009
We live in a surveillance society, and, like it or not, we are under constant
monitoring. Oddly, this is nothing new as Sibley points out. And now there's
Google Street View. The Internet behemoth recently put its camera cars on
the streets of a dozen or so Canadian cities, including Ottawa. With their
pole-mounted panoramic cameras, the cruising cars snapped pictures of whatever
was to be seen at that particular moment.*
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Google+watching/1535329/story.html
Sciences et démocratie - Pour qui, la recherche?
Marie-Ève Maheu
Le Devoir, 25 avril 2009
Le développement du savoir dans les universités québécoises
est en péril, affirment les chercheurs. Non seulement l'argent manque,
mais l'orientation de la recherche est de plus en plus pervertie et éloignée
des citoyens, avance Cécile Sabourin, présidente de la Fédération
québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université
(FQPPU).*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/25/247364.html
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Steven Johnson
The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2009
The digital-books revolution offers great promise and opportunity. The
question remains whether we recognize the book itself when that revolution
has run its course. In our always-connected, everything-linked world, it
is easy to forget that books are the dark matter of the information universe.
While we now have access to terabytes of data at our fingertips, we have
nonetheless drifted further and further away from one of the world’s
most valuable archives of knowledge: the tens of millions of books that
have been published since Gutenberg's day. That's because the modern infosphere
is both organized and navigated through hyperlinked pages of digital text,
with the most-linked pages rising to the top of Google Inc.'s all-powerful
search-results page. But there is good reason to believe that this strange
imbalance will prove to be a momentary blip. 2009 may prove to be the most
significant year in the evolution of the book according to Johnson.*
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html
Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP): Journal
of the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) Inc. - Open Access issue
Volume 39, Number 1, March 2009
Articles presented in this OA-themed issue are written by economists discussing
their experience with open access and by also by economists directly involved
in open access publishing. Themes cover the transition the publishing industry
is currently undergoing, the surprisingly low cost of publishing an open
access journal, the impact of open access and various open source aspects
of the open access movement.*
http://blog.repec.org/2009/04/24/the-economics-of-open-access-publishing/
Dialogue
Quarterly newsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC)
Spring 2009
Some of the items covered: the Virtual world of Second Life; The social
economy: a different kind of currency; Q&A with Meric Gertler (University
of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science) on what draws people and industries
to some city-regions over others.*
http://www.sshrc.ca/newsletter/2009spring-printemps.asp
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Professional writing and publishing: Resources for librarians
Laurie L. Putnam
C&RL News, Volume 70, Number 4, April 2009
Putnam presents a sampling of sites useful to librarian-writers. Whether
one is writing for a scholarly journal or a blog, there’s likely to
be a tool here that can help manage the writing process, answer a grammar
question, or lead to a suitable venue for publication. This is a collection
of well-worn reference guides, shelved with some dynamic blogs, podcasts,
and online communities.*
http://www.cro2info.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/prowritepublish.cfm
Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
Karen Calhoun et al
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2009
In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.org,
and conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide. The findings suggest
two traditions of information organization at work - one from librarianship
and the other from the Web. While librarians’ perspectives about data
quality remain highly influenced by their profession’s classical principles
of information organization, end users’ expectations of data quality
arise largely from their experiences of how information is organized and
presented on popular Web sites. Calhoun et al conclude with recommendations
for a data quality program that balances what end users and librarians want
and need from online catalogs.*
http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/fullreport.pdf
Technology proximity between firms and universities and technology
transfer
Martin Woerter
KOF Swiss Economic Institute Working Paper, Number 222, April 2009
Woerter investigates the technological orientation of firms and universities
and their propensity to have knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities.
He considers the technological potential for KTT and how it is used, emphasizing
differences between smaller and larger firms. Examination of the data
collected on the technology activities of firms (patent statistics), the
technology activities of universities, and survey data on technology transfer
activities suggests – especially for smaller firms – that great
technology proximity fosters transfer activities with different universities.*
http://www.kof.ethz.ch/publications/science/pdf/wp_222.pdf
Open Access to Research Outputs: Final Report to Research Councils
UK (RCUK)
SQW Consulting and LISU, Loughborough University, September 2008
The purpose of this report is to identify the effects and impacts of open
access on publishing models and institutional repositories in light of national
and international trends. The report presents options for the [U.K.] Research
Councils to consider, such as maintaining the current variation in Research
Councils’ mandates, or moving towards increased open access, eventually
leading to a “Gold Standard.” *
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/news/oareport.pdf
[See commentary on this report at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/04/new-oa-report-from-rcuk.html
and also at http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/563-Pre-Emptive-Gold-Fever-Strikes-Again.html]
On the Move With the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies
Ellyssa Kroski
Library Technology Reports, Volume 44, Number 5, 2008
Kroski looks at the mobile Web landscape including, mobile devices, mobile
Web applications, library mobile initiatives, and discusses how libraries
can create a mobile experience for users. The mobile Web is the World Wide
Web accessed through hand-held, mobile devices ranging from a cellular phone
to an iPod Touch for example. It constitutes the entirety of the Internet
and is not limited to websites which have been specifically designed for
mobile viewing.*
http://eprints.rclis.org/15024/1/mobile_web_ltr.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Get It Where You Can: The Changing World of Collections and Acquisition
St. Catharines, Ontario, May 8, 2009
Limited funds, patron urgency, and new technologies are some factors driving
innovations in resource sharing. Academic libraries have demonstrated ingenuity
in addressing these challenges and as a result more efficient models are
developed. Buy-on-demand, direct consortial borrowing, and streamlined ILL
are some models that are proving to be very effective. *
http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/upconf.html
What to Expect at the 2009 Fourth Annual Conference on Open Repositories
Conference (OR09)
Sun in Education Web Seminar
May 13, 2009, 9:00 am PT; 12:00 pm ET
Tune in for a 60 minute preview of highlights from conference plenary presentations.
Dr. John B. Howard, OR09 Program Chair, Associate University Librarian,
Arizona State University Libraries, will discuss several themes represented
in presentations and panels at this year’s conference including: the
role of repositories in emergent data management networks, repositories
and the cloud, and strategies for innovation and sustainability in repository
applications.*
http://www.education-webevents.com/
Digital Preservation – the Planets way
Copenhagen, Denmark, June, 22-24, 2009
Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services)
is hosting the first in a series of three-day training events in Europe
at The Royal Library, Copenhagen. Digital Preservation – The Planets
Way will examine preserve digital content preservation needs, required action
and the Planets approach to addressing digital preservation issues. Planets
is a joint European project co-funded by the European Commission as part
of Framework Programme 6 and delivered by a Consortium of 16 National Libraries,
Archives, research and technology institutions.*
http://www.planets-project.eu/events/copenhagen-2009/
Towards a Digital Mathematics Library
Grand Bend, Ontario, July 6-12, 2009
Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed
mathematical literature ever published, properly linked, validated and verified.
Experts estimate the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge ever published
amounts to approximately 100,000,000 pages - an amount easily manageable
by current information technologies. Following success of DML
2008, workshop's objectives are to formulate the strategy and
goals of a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current
successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects. David
Ruddy (Project Euclid, Cornell University Library, US) will
provide the keynote address entitled Getting from Here to There: Assembling
the Pieces of the Digital Mathematics Library.*
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009.html
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
