E-Lert # 335 / Cyberavis no. 335
Friday July 24, 2009 / le vendredi
24 juillet 2009
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ/ COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
Karen Adams representing CARL at copyright roundtable
The Government of Canada is hosting a nationwide consultation on copyright modernization that includes a series of round table and town hall meetings from July 20 to September 13, 2009. Karen Adams (University of Manitoba) will speak on behalf of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) at a roundtable in Winnipeg on August 5.
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Karen Adams représentera l’ABRC à une table ronde sur le droit d’auteur
Le gouvernement du Canada mène des consultations à l’échelle nationale sur la modernisation du droit d’auteur avec une série de tables rondes et d’assemblées publiques du 20 juillet au 13 septembre 2009. Karen Adams (University of Manitoba) prendra la parole pour l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) à une table ronde sur la réforme du droit d’auteur à Winnipeg le 5 août.
NEWS / NOUVELLES
WIPO Launches On-line Tool to Facilitate Access to Targeted Scientific
Information
July23, 2009
At WIPO’s headquarters, a new public-private partnership to provide
industrial property offices, universities and research institutes in under
developed countries with free access and industrial property offices in
certain developing countries with low cost access to selected online scientific
and technical journals was launched. The Access
to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi) program was rolled
out in partnership with various prominent science and technology publishers.
The World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) provided advice and expertise gained
from their similar programmes offering access to journals in their respective
fields of activity.*
http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0025.html
California Digital Library Offers Web Archiving
Service
Erica Hendry
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 23, 2009
The California Digital Library’s Web
Archiving Service enables faculty, students, researchers, and librarians
to create archived collections of Web sites that could otherwise be removed
or deleted. The library's Web archiving service manager, Tracy Seneca, says
the frequency with which Web pages disappear is an "inherent vulnerability"
for faculty and students presenting papers and research. It's difficult
to validate online sources because cited links die, on average, three or
four years after they were created.*
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/California-Digital-Library/7438/
Fissures Evident in Panel on Google Settlement
Norman Oder
Library Journal, July 23, 2009
Fissures in the library community regarding the proposed Google Book Search
settlement were evident on July 11 when the ALA Washington Office hosted
a Breakout
Session at the ALA annual conference in Chicago. (Video is available
on the Washington Office's District
Dispatch blog.) Nancy Kranich, chair of the ALA Committee on Legislation
Copyright Subcommittee, said “the settlement has great potential;
we all agree that’s a good thing,” However, she also said that
ALA is concerned with the absence of competition and the potential to compromise
fundamental library values such as equity of access, patron privacy, and
intellectual freedom.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6672661.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=490036441
University of Calgary 'moving
to the next level' with new digital library
Nick Lewis
Calgary Herald, July 22, 2009
When it opens in fall 2010, the University of Calgary's new Taylor Family
Digital Library will be on the cutting edge of research library collections,
facilities and services in Canada bringing together traditional resources
such as printed books and periodicals with modern media, including digital
video, e-books and touch-screen information kiosks. On a tour of the unfinished
site, federal Industry Minister Tony Clement marveled at it and all it will
offer the next generation of university students. "Clearly, the University
of Calgary is moving to the next level and is ready for the 21st century,
not only for its students, but for the brain gain of our country,"
Clement said.*
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/moving+next+level+with+digital+library/1815353/story.html
[Press release on
U. of Calgary Website]
CRTC takes steps to improve access to communications services for
Canadians
July 21, 2009
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
announced new requirements to facilitate access to telecommunications and
broadcasting services. Building on existing initiatives, the requirements
consist of concrete measures for the more than four million Canadians living
with disabilities. Certain measures will be implemented immediately, and
others will gradually be put into practice given the current economic climate.*
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2009/r090721.htm
[Français: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/fra/news/releases/2009/r090721.htm]
Government of Canada Launches National Consultations on Copyright
Modernization
July 20, 2009
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable James
Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, launched a
series of nationwide consultations to solicit Canadians' opinions on the
important issue of copyright reform. The consultations will run until September
13, 2009, and will include a number of different avenues for Canadians to
participate, including an online discussion forum
and a submission centre for posting detailed submissions.*
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Of-Canada-1019288.html
Key Messages from the AUCC on Copyright Reform / Messages clés
de la AUCC au sujet de la réforme du droit d’auteur
July 20, 2009 / 20 juillet 2009
Following the announcement by the Honourable Tony Clement , Minister of
Industry, and the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage
and Official Languages, on nationwide copyright consultations, the Association
of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has issued a set of key messages
on copyright reform.* PDF
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Suite à l’annonce de l’honorable Tony Clement, ministre
de l’Industrie, et l’honorable James Moore, ministre du Patrimoine
canadien et des Langues officielles, au sujet des consultations nationales
du droit d’auteur, l’Association des universités et collèges
du Canada a préparé une série des messages clés
concernant la question de réforme du droit d’auteur.* PDF
IT industry hopes to become carbon-neutral
Chelsea Murray
Telegraph Journal, July 20, 2009
The global IT industry emits three per cent of the world's greenhouse gas
emissions - an amount equal to that of the airline industry, and the planet's
one billion computers together emit one billion tons of carbon waste annually.
These numbers double every four years. "Computers don't emit CO2 directly
- they don't have a tailpipe," says Bill St. Arnaud, chief of research
for non-profit networking corporation Canarie Inc., "but the power
they consume is enormous." Many countries, including the United States,
still use dirty coal-fired plants to deliver that power.*
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/733861
Elsevier Announces the “Article of the Future”
July 20, 2009
Elsevier announced the ‘Article of the Future’ project, an
ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how a scientific
article is presented taking full advantage of online capabilities, providing
readers individualized entry points and routes through content while benefiting
from the latest advances in visualization techniques. Editorial, production
and IT teams at Cell Press in collaboration with Elsevier’s User Centered
Design group have produced the prototypes
using content from two previously published Cell articles. Elsevier and
Cell Press are inviting feedback from the scientific community on the concepts
and implementations.*
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01279
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
Brad Stone
The New York Times, July 17, 2009
In George Orwell’s “1984,” government censors erase all
traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down
an incineration chute called the “memory hole.” Amazon recently
dropped “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,”
down the memory hole. The online retail giant remotely deleted some
digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had
downloaded them.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
[see also “Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others” HTML;
“Kindle Swindle?” HTML]
University Presses Stepping Up e-Book Efforts
Calvin Reid
Publishers Weekly, July 17, 2009
A coalition of presses from New York University, Rutgers, Temple and the
University of Pennsylvania, are using a planning grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation to hire a technical consultant for a six-month study into
the feasibility of a collaborative scholarly e-book publishing program.
According to the details of the grant, the new program would target the
library market, and then supply e-books to students. The project will
consider at variety of payment/delivery models—from purchase/subscription
to rental models, bundling and print-on-demand.*
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6671767.html?nid=2673&source=title&rid=490036441
Accès aux archives notariales du XXe siècle
14 juillet 2009
« La Chambre des notaires du Québec et BAnQ ont conclu
un accord qui permet à cette dernière de mettre une quantité
impressionnante d'archives notariales du XXe siècle à la disposition
du public. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle d'importance pour tous ceux qui attendaient
avec impatience la possibilité de consulter cette source documentaire
d'une richesse exceptionnelle pour la recherche historique et généalogique.
Les chercheurs avaient déjà accès sans aucune restriction
aux archives notariales des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles conservées
par BAnQ. »
http://www.asted.org/_uploadedcontent/pdf/1303-02-cms.pdf
Library of Congress test drives cloud storage
Dave Rosenberg
CNet News, July 14, 2009
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10286280-62.html
ARTICLES
Les bibliothécaires, combien de divisions ? Rencontre sur
les lieux d'échange et de débat de la profession
Yves Alix et Gaël Revelin
Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, Tome 54, Numéro 4, 2009
« Issu d'une rencontre entre le rédacteur en chef du
BBF, revue institutionnelle, et un jeune blogueur, cet article propose une
synthèse de leurs échanges portant sur la profession de bibliothécaire,
ses associations, ses outils d'information, ses lieux et ses temporalités
de débat... Il met en évidence des points de convergence manifestes,
mais aussi une rupture générationnelle réelle, dans
les pratiques, entre le monde du papier et celui d'internet, par lequel
devra passer la revivification nécessaire de l'information et des
débats professionnels. »
http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2009-04-0017-002.pdf
Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?
Stephen Pinfield
Learned Publishing, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2009
Analyzing three dissemination models, arXiv, PubMed Central, and the RIOJA
project, Pinfield discusses the potential for repositories and journals
to work on a complementary basis and to form a coherent, Open Access scholarly
communication system. The key issues associated with the widespread adoption
of these models include repository infrastructure development; changing
ideas of the 'journal', 'article', and 'publication'; version management;
quality assurance; business and funding models; developing value-added features;
content preservation; policy frameworks; and changing roles and cultures
within the research community.*
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2009/00000022/00000003/art00002
College 2.0: When computers leave the classroom so does boredom
Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24, 2009
College leaders usually brag about their tech-filled "smart"
classrooms, but a dean at Southern Methodist University is proudly removing
computers from lecture halls. José A. Bowen, dean of the Meadows
School of the Arts, challenges his colleagues to teach without machines.
Particularly, Mr. Bowen aims to discourage professors from using PowerPoint,
as it is frequently used as a crutch rather than a creative tool. He's not
the only one raising questions about PowerPoint; a study
published in the April issue of British Educational Research Journal suggests
that 59 percent of students in a new survey reported that at least half
of their lectures were boring. PowerPoint was one of the dullest methods
they saw. Although computers have undoubtedly led to improvements in teaching,
some skeptics argue that technology has not revolutionized the classroom
experience for the majority of college students, despite millions of dollars
in investment and early predictions that going digital would prompt professors
to rethink their lectures and herald a pedagogical renaissance.*
http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/
Taking a Different View of Libraries in Transition: the Mobile
Web
Michael Ridley
Access, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2009
We have learned how to use the web browser as a window for library resources and services, and likewise we have to learn to use the smartphone as the primary device for interacting with our users and for presenting the information they seek. Accessing the library through the mobile web, however, isn’t simply a matter of shrinking the screen; effective use of the mobile environment requires us to rethink how we connect with our users.*
Giving Away Academic Books Online Can Actually Help Print Sales
David Wiley
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21, 2009
In an economy where sales of everything are down, an increasing number
of authors and publishers, especially in academic fields, are distributing
their books free on the Internet. While this might seem to contradict common
sense, current research suggests that this is not a bad idea. National Academies
Press, for example, makes its publications freely available online. Michael
Jensen, director of publishing technologies, says this has increased reader’s
ability to find the books, and in turn has increased sales. Other academic
publishers are also finding that twinning free digital versions of their
monographs with print on demand versions also offers the potential to expand
their reach and impact.*
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/David-Wiley-Giving-Away/7278/
Governance and recordkeeping around the world
Volume 3, Number 2, July 2009
The July Issue is available on the Library and Archives Canada website.
Some of the stories covered this month: Court Ruling: Government [Ontario]
can't use technology as excuse to deny information; Australia's online history
“facing extinction”; [UK] Data Centres almost at full capacity;
Government [UK] seeks advice on data archiving.*
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/007001/f2/007001-090700-e.pdf
Lost in the cloud
Jonathan Zittrain
The New York Times, July 19, 2009
Earlier this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome.
This is part of a larger trend moving users further away from running code
and storing their information on PCs toward doing everything online with
whatever device is at hand. The cloud, however, comes with major challenges.
There are dangers in entrusting one’s data to others, and data stored
online has less privacy protection both in practice and under the law. The
most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the
cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate. This freedom is at risk
in the cloud, according to Zittrain, where a platform vendor has much
more control over whether and how to let others write new software.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20zittrain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Gary Fung: “I’m doing this for the future.”
Robert Thompson
Financial Post Magazine, July 13, 2009
As a teenage undergraduate from Richmond, B.C., studying engineering at
the University of British Columbia in the late 1990s, Gary Fung was fascinated
by the possibilities peer-to-peer software offers - particularly Napster,
the notorious music file-sharing service that was sued out of existence
in 2001. Fung maintains his fascination with peer-to-peer technology. The
record industry remains in panic mode. But other things are different. The
movie and television industries, for instance, have joined the music business
in fear of wanton file sharing. Fung, no longer watching from the sidelines,
has jumped into the fray, and in the eyes of the entertainment industry
poses one of its biggest threats.*
http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/story.html?id=1764340
The E-Reader Market of the Future
Kinley Levack
EContent, July 10, 2009
With the buzz about the e-reader market it is easy to forget that these
“new” devices have been in the works for decades. Although it’s
probably the best-known device, the Kindle is “not the only game in
town.” The competition currently includes Sony Reader Digital Books,
STAReBOOK, Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Fujitsu FLEPia, Readius, and Onyx Boox,
among others. Plastic Logic, Ltd. will be introducing its version of an
e-reader to the market by January 2010, and Hearst Communications,
Inc. is reportedly working on its own e-reader, via a startup called FirstPaper.*
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/The-E-Reader-Market-of-the-Future-54521.htm
Americans favor science, but less than before
The Christian Science Monitor, July 9, 2009
The share of Americans who view science as the nation’s greatest
achievement has dropped sharply, even as the public continues to hold scientists
in high regard. A new Pew Research Center poll indicates that 27 percent
of Americans consider the nation’s greatest achievements to be in
science, medicine and technology, more than any category other than “don’t
know.” That’s down from 47 percent in a similar study a decade
ago, the center reported. The decline comes even as technology spreads out
connecting people worldwide via the Internet.*
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/09/americans-favor-science-but-less-than-before/
RESOURCES
/ RESSOURCES
Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning:
a Report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC)
Stuart Hampton-Reeves et al, 2009
The environment in which research is disseminated and used has changed
radically. The task of modern higher learning institutions is to better
understand this transformation and support new ways of accessing content.
It is now beyond doubt that the internet has revolutionized the way that
research content is discovered, accessed and used. Content which once needed
specialist skills to find is now widely available and searches which once
took days of painstaking work can now be done in a matter of seconds. A
recurring theme of the study was the emphasis that users place on accessibility
of research content over its academic authority. The research also looked
at the obstacles users face in using research: obstacles could be technological,
epistemological and/or institutional.*
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/studentsuseresearchcontent.pdf
Guide pratique pour l’élaboraion : d’un thésaurus
documentaire
Michèle Hudon
Les Éditions ASTED, 2009
« Dans un environnement dominé par le Web et les technologies
de l’information, la nécessité de travailler avec des
langages documentaires structurés et efficaces demeure présente.
On continue d’utiliser des thésaurus spécialisés
pour la gestion de documents et de collections traditionnelles ou numériques.
Le développement et la mise à disposition de thésaurus
originaux décrivant des champs de recherche et d’activités
pointus ou en expansion permettent une organisation plus efficace et un
repérage de meilleure qualité dans les collections de documents
qui portent sur des sujets nouveaux ou qui offrent de nouvelles perspectives
sur des thèmes connus. »
http://www.asted.org/_uploadedcontent/medias/content_1292_1213.pdf
Higher Education Empirical Research Database
The Open University
The Higher Education Empirical Research Database is sponsored by the Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Higher
Education Funding Council for England (and formerly the Higher Education
Academy, Universities UK and GuildHE (until 2009). Some of the themes currently
included in the HEER database are: access and widening participation; business,
community and regional issues; course design and structures; the graduate
labour market; research, staffing, and students - characteristics, experiences,
expectations. Relevant published research is identified through the regular
scanning of: key higher education journals; official reports from UK and
international policy bodies; statistical sources (e.g. HESA, OECD); society
for Research into Higher Education Abstracts; and websites of relevant higher
education organizations.*
http://heerd.open.ac.uk/
The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)
Four Open Educational Resources community pioneers offered their insights
into the transformative potential of OERs at the SPARC-ACRL Forum that took
place during the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in
Denver, CO. Comprising journals, full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials
or techniques that are critical in the learning environment, OERs are a
logical extension of what the library community supports in the Open Access
movement. The webcasts featured on this page highlight examples of how different
constituencies are advancing OERs on campuses, and offered suggestions for
library support.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala09mw/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Webinar Next Week on the Google Library Project Settlement
July 29, 2 pm ET
"The leaders involved with the crafting of the Google Library Project
Settlement will share with the publishing industry the benefits of the agreement
for publishers and authors. If approved by the Court in October, the agreement
will create one of the most far-reaching intellectual, cultural, and commercial
platforms for access to digital books for the reading public, while granting
publishers unprecedented opportunities and protections.” The webinar
is presented in collaboration with Google, The Association of American Publishers,
and Publishers Weekly. HTML
Engaging faculty and students through the Sparky Awards; Creative
partnerships at Penn State
SPARC, August 5, 2009, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
This year, Penn State is syndicating the Sparky Awards specifically to
motivate students to get engaged on issues related to the value of information
sharing – including copyright and new media – and has created
an unparalleled team of partners to spearhead the effort. Learn how new
and creative campus collaborations can help you to engage more faculty and
students and broaden the conversation on the topic of access to information
– a crucial one in this economic climate.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/09-0722.shtml
Reaching Out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Research Institutions
- Web Conference
Association of Research Libraries, August 6, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
ET
The 60-minute webcast will complement the recently released guide
on outreach to administrators, editors, and members of academic scholarly
societies. Successful campus outreach encourages society leaders to
engage in positive change that advances the scholarly communication system,
promotes new research modes, and offers a path forward in a time of paradigm
shift. The Web conference is free, but advance registration is required.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/coi-announce-july20-final.pdf
Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index
for Libraries
Presented by Serials Solutions, August 18, 2009, 12:00 p.m. ET
“Why can’t I search the library the way Google searches the
Web?” Librarians have been fielding this question for over a decade
as popular general search engines have set new expectations for service,
searching and responsiveness. The complexity of multiple formats and the
sheer scale of library collections present formidable barriers to simple,
speedy, single search box interfaces. However, a new unified search index
technology - the core of the groundbreaker Summon web-scale discovery service
- offers the promise of answering that question with “You can.”
HTML
Investir le monde numérique; Premier Congrès des
milieux documentaires du Québec
Montréal, Québec, 11 au 14 novembre, 2009
« Les quatre journées d’échanges et de réflexions
du Congrès seront consacrées au thème Investir le monde
numérique. Alors que le web fêtera bientôt ses 20 ans,
les milieux documentaires ont dépassé l’étape
de la compréhension et de l’adaptation à la culture
numérique. Tant par la disponibilité des contenus que par
la relative stabilité des outils et des infrastructures du numérique,
les acteurs des milieux documentaires ont la responsabilité d’intégrer
ces nouvelles formes de représentation des savoirs dans leur pratique
et dans leurs services. Il s’agit d’un changement de paradigme
très important qui sollicite l’audace de tous les professionnels
et techniciens des milieux documentaires. »
http://congres2009.asted.org/home.php?lid=2
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
