E-Lert # 334 / Cyberavis no. 334
Friday July 17, 2009 / le vendredi
17 juillet 2009
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ/ COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
LibQUAL+ Canada 2010
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased
to announce that to date 45 institutions have agreed to participate in
the second round of the LibQUAL+ Canada consortial survey. This year institutions
will be able to choose from the full survey or LibQUAL Lite.
Survey registration will open in the Fall and the survey period will
begin in January 2010. Participants will be notified once registration
has opened. Thank you to Sam Kalb, Project Coordinator, for his work on
this project.
Complete list of participants: http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canLibQUAL/canlibs.htm
More on LibQUAL Lite: http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canLibQUAL/LibQUAL-lite.htm
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LibQUAL+ Canada 2010
C'est avec plaisir que l’Association des bibliothèques de
recherche du Canada (ABRC) annonce qu'à jour il y a 45 institutions qui
ont signalé leur intérêt à y assister au deuxième
sondage par consortium LibQUAL+ Canada. Cette année les participants
auront le choix d'utiliser soit le sondage complet, soit LibQUAL Lite.
L'inscription au sondage commencera en automne et la période de
la collection des données commencera en janvier 2010. Les participants
seront notifiés dès qu'il est possible de s'inscrire. Remerciements à Sam
Kalb, Project Coordinator, pour tout son travaille sur ce projet.
Liste des participants: http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canLibQUAL/canlibs-f.htm
En savoir plus sur LibQUAL Lite : http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canLibQUAL/LibQUAL-lite-f.htm
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Facebook needs to improve privacy practices, investigation finds
July 16, 2009
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada says Facebook must take greater responsibility
for the personal information in its care in order to comply with Canadian
privacy law after reviewing the results of an investigation into the popular
social networking site’s privacy policies and practices. “It’s
clear that privacy issues are top of mind for Facebook, and yet we found
serious privacy gaps in the way the site operates,” says Privacy
Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. The Privacy Commissioner’s report [français]
recommends more transparency, to ensure that the nearly 12 million Canadian
Facebook users have enough information to make meaningful decisions about
how widely they share personal information.*
http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090716_e.cfm
Français: http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090716_f.cfm
Les jeunes sont "accros" aux nouveaux médias
mais ne veulent pas les payer
Cécile Ducourtieux
Le Monde, 16 juillet 2009
« L'information tient de l'anecdote, mais elle est révélatrice
du désarroi dans lequel se trouvent observateurs et professionnels
des médias, face aux nouveaux modes de consommation qu'Internet
fait émerger. Vendredi 10 juillet, la banque américaine Morgan
Stanley, une des institutions de Wall Street, a cru bon de diffuser à ses
clients une note de recherche d'un genre particulier. Traitant de la consommation
des médias par les adolescents, elle a été en grande
partie rédigée par un garçon de 15 ans, Matthew Robson, à partir
de ses propres habitudes et de celles de ses copains. L'étude a
fait le tour du monde et la banque a reçu un déluge de courriels
d'investisseurs, ravis d'en savoir plus sur une population qui n'a pas
souvent la parole, mais constitue l'avant-garde de la révolution
technologique. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/07/16/les-jeunes-sont-accros-aux-nouveaux-medias-mais-ne-veulent-pas-les-payer_1219519_651865.html#ens_id=1219603
Springville company introduces new DVD to protect data 1,000+
years
Randy Wright
Daily Herald, July 16, 2009
Disks go bad for many reasons, even if they're not used. On Sept. 1, the
start-up company Millenniata will release a new archive disk technology
to preserve data at room temperature for 1,000 years. The process is much
like writing onto gold plates or chiseling information into stone. The
Millennial Disk looks virtually identical to a regular DVD, but it's special.
Layers of hard, "persistent" materials (the exact composition
is a trade secret) are laid down on a plastic carrier, and digital information
is literally carved in with an enhanced laser using the company's beefed-up
DVD burner - the Millennial Writer. Once cut, the disk can be read
by an ordinary computer DVD reader.*
http://heraldextra.com/news/local/article_b25c9a30-7242-11de-9feb-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story
Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes
Nell Greenfieldboyce
National Public Radio, July 16, 2009
An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original
footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were likely destroyed
during a period when NASA erased old magnetic tapes and reused them to
record satellite data."We're all saddened that they're not there.
We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight," says Dick Nafzger, a TV specialist
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who led the search team.*
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
Springer Launches Innovative Publisher-Based Image Collection
July 16, 2009
The international scholarly publisher Springer Science+Business Media
has launched SpringerImages (www.springerimages.com).
The collection of 1.6 million scientific, technological, and medical images
includes photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs, histograms, and other
illustrations. Although it covers all scientific subject areas, about 61%
of the collection focuses on medical and life sciences. Drawing on its
own vast collection of content, Springer provides multilayered, in-depth
indexing. SpringerImages includes a small but growing collection of open
access images, which are freely available to anyone, no registration required.*
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Springer-Launches-Innovative-PublisherBased-Image-Collection-55222.asp
Working with news publishers
Josh Cohen
Google Public Policy Blog, July 15, 2009
Google has posted a reply to the Hamburg Declaration regarding
intellectual property rights presented by an international group of news
publishers on July 9, 2009. Google puts the ball in the newspapers’ court
in terms of deciding what content to put on the Web and deciding how users
will access it.*
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/07/working-with-news-publishers.html
Democratic Group’s Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle
Brad Stone
New York Times, July 14, 2009
A group of influential members of the Democratic Party want to provide
every student in the country with electronic reading devices. Amazon.com
should like the name of their proposal: “A
Kindle in Every Backpack: A Proposal for eTextbooks in American Schools,” by
the Democratic Leadership Council, a left-leaning think tank, was published
on the group’s Web site.*
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/democratic-groups-proposal-give-each-student-a-kindle/
University of Alberta librarian
heads Canadian library group
University of Alberta Express News, July 6, 2009
Ernie Ingles, vice-provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta,
has been elected as president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
for a two-year term. Ingles hopes to strengthen the operational capacity
of the association, influence training and development of academic librarians
in the member libraries and respond appropriately to legislative developments,
particularly such as the need for fair Canadian copyright legislation. "CARL's
concern is that a new copyright bill reflects a balance between what creators
of intellectual property need in order to be successful and what users
need so that they are not penalized for trying to exercise their rights
in good faith. Hopefully we can get it right in Canada," Ingles said.*
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=10304
Ernie Ingles selected for “Alberta’s 50 Most Influential
People for 2009” list
Alberta Venture, July 1, 2009
Alberta Venture magazine cites Mr. Ingles’ role in the repatriation
of the Steele Collection and
the Collection’s potential impact on Western Canadian history. The
collection of Sir Samuel Steele, an iconic and influential leader during
the settlement of the Canadian West, will likely require that parts
of Canadian history be rewritten. Steele’s legacy as one of the first
officers of the North West Mounted Police had, until recently, been part
of a private collection in England. In June 2008, Steele’s
photos, letters, uniforms, medals and more were repatriated by the University
of Alberta under the leadership of vice-provost and chief librarian Ernie
Ingles.
http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=3445&page=4&year=
ARTICLES
International Journal of Digital Curation: Issue on data management
and preservation
Volume 4, Number 1, 2009
The number of complex, diverse data resources is growing rapidly due to
the compound effects of increasing speed and resolution of digital instruments,
pervasive data-collection automation and growing computing power. In spite
of all the above, there is no room for complacency; the data represent
an enormous wealth of opportunity to extract information, to make discoveries
and to inform policy. However, it still takes a heroic effort to discover
and exploit those opportunities. Research and progress, charted by the
Fourth International Digital Curation Conference is presented in the 10
articles of this issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation.
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc
Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain
The Register
Charles Eicher, June 26, 2009
The public domain is one of the greatest resources in human history. Eventually
all knowledge will become part of it, but it faces a new threat. Vast libraries
of public domain works are being plundered by claims of copyright. Some
call it “copyfraud.” Eicher discusses how large corporations
like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon have structured their businesses to assist
it and profit from it.*
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/
University Press 2.0
Phil Pochoda
The University of Michigan Press Blog, May 27, 2009
Michigan Press director Phil Pochoda discusses the transition to digital
publishing and the current challenges of university presses, focusing on
economic and cultural issues. With their traditional business model collapsing,
university subventions declining, and the increasing unwillingness and
inability of universities to tolerate press debt, the problem for many
university presses is not just how to manage the digital transition, but
how to survive it. Pochoda offers some thoughts on the direction presses
need to take to remain viable in the digital age while preserving the integrity
of scholarship.*
http://umichpress.typepad.com/university_of_michigan_pr/2009/05/university-press-20-by-phil-pochoda.html
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Campus Outreach to Scholarly Society Leaders, Editors, and Members
Association of Research Libraries, July 16, 2009
This guide is intended to assist libraries in developing positive, supportive
relationships with leaders, editors, and members of academic scholarly
societies affiliated with their institutions. It will support development
of faculty outreach programs at ARL member libraries by offering strategy
and tactics to successfully engage leaders at their institution. Learned
societies face many challenges in today’s technological, cultural,
and economic climate. They confront a profound paradigm shift in communication
practices – one sweeping away traditional practices. Research libraries
face similar challenges.*
http://www.arl.org/sc/faculty/coi/index.shtml
Battling Link Rot
Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive, June 30, 2009
Legal information is increasingly born in digital formats and disseminated
online. Even though this content is widely available to users with
Internet access, it is also at risk for permanent loss. Digital formats
are threatened by obsolescence as new technology replaces existing systems
and applications, and the lifespan of digital files remains uncertain given
the fragility of the physical media on which they are stored. Moreover,
access to free content posted online by government entities, agencies,
scholarly societies, and other organizations can be unexpectedly lost as
Web site files are removed and URLs are changed or inactivated. The Archive
is a collaborative enterprise for the preservation of web-published legal
materials. It is sponsored by Georgetown University Law Library and the
State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia.*
http://www.legalinfoarchive.org/
30th IATUL Conference Proceedings
Leuven, Belgium, June 1- 4, 2009
Stephen Abram, an inveterate library watcher and strategic technology
for libraries futurist, provided the keynote address. He challenged his
audience to consider some of the following questions: Can our libraries
be more open and innovative? Can we be more open to our users, our communities,
to core research processes, to new technologies? Can we be more open to
change? How? Are there technologies that we should be trying and piloting
to see if they improve the library's service quality and impact? Which
ones are worth investigating? What are the emerging learning technologies?
Are there different ways to build community or to attract new community
segments? In this session he shared the top technologies that we should
consider for innovation. Abram shared the results of new research on the
impact of librarians in their organizations. The slides from his presentation,
and the rest of the conference proceedings are on the IATUL Website.*
http://www.iatul.org/conferences/pastconferences/2009proceedings.asp
Proceedings of DigCCurr2009: Digital Curation: Practice, Promise,
and Prospects
Helen R. Tibbo et al
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1 – 3, 2009
DigCCurr2009 was held as part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital
Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr)
project. DigCCurr is a three-year (2006-2009), Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS)-funded project to develop a graduate-level curricular
framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare students
for digital curation careers in various environments. Papers and posters
presented covered such topics as curation of digital data in the humanities
and sciences, digital curation tools, funders’ perspectives on digital
curation, preservation of government records, and more.*
http://stores.lulu.com/DigCCurr2009
Reuse of material in the context of education and research
Paul Keller & Wilma Mossink
SURFfoundation, December 2008
The rise of the Internet and other new ICT tools have led to drastic changes
in the options for distribution and reuse of material for research. These
changes demand a reorientation in the rules for sharing educational and
research materials. SURFdirect and Creative Commons examined the different
Open Content licences that are available and that will make clear to users
what they are permitted to do with material held in repositories. *
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Reuseofmaterial.aspx
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
International Digital Libraries Conference
New Delhi, India, February 23 – 26, 2010
The theme of the ICDL 2010 is ‘Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information
Paradigm’ with a focus on the strengths and potential of digital
libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.
The conference aims to bring together a wide range of experts, researchers,
academics, and students and provide an international platform to address
issues relevant to digital libraries.*
http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/index.php
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
