E-Lert # 337 / Cyberavis no. 337
Friday August 7, 2009 / le vendredi
7 août 2009
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ
DE L’ABRC
Deadline extended for CARL research grants applications
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) offers two research
grant opportunities available to librarians working in a research setting
and to students of Library and Information Studies. The grants are the CARL
Research in Librarianship Grant and the CARL E-Learning Research
and Development Grant. The submission deadline for research proposals
has been extended to August 31.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/about/grant/grants-e.html
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Date limite prolongée pour application aux subventions de recherche de l’ABRC
L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC)
offre deux bourses de recherche aux bibliothécaires qui œuvrent
dans un contexte de recherche et aux étudiants en bibliothéconomie
et en sciences de l’information. Il s’agit de la subvention
de recherche en bibliothéconomie et de la subvention de recherche-développement
pour l’apprentissage en ligne. La date limite pour soumettre les propositions
de recherche a été prolongée au 31 août.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/about/grant/grants-f.html
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Utiliser Facebook et aider la science
06 août 2009
« Le leader mondial des micro-processeurs, l'Américain
Intel a conçu un logiciel qui permet aux utilisateurs du site de
socialisation Facebook de consacrer une part de la puissance de leurs ordinateurs
à la recherche scientifique. Intel s'est associé à
l'ONG GridRepublic pour créer cette application dévoilée
et baptisée «Progress Thru Processors» (Le progrès
via les processeurs). »
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200908/04/01-889746-utiliser-facebook-et-aider-la-science.php
University of Alberta helping develop new literary database
Simon Yackulic
The Gateway, August 5, 2009
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation has approved over $1 million in
funding for a project that promises to radically modernize the study of
Canadian literature. The University of Alberta is at the forefront of the
effort to digitize and consolidate centuries of Canadian historical writings
in a scholarly database along with contemporary works.*
http://www.gateway.ualberta.ca/articles/news/2009/08/05/u-a-helping-develop-new-literary-database
Final proposed Accessible Information and Communications Standard
August 5, 2009
The final proposed standard has been submitted to the Minister of Community
and Social Services for consideration as law. The proposed standard outlines
how businesses and organizations may soon be required to create, provide
and receive information and communications in ways that are accessible for
people with disabilities.*
http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/accesson/business/information/
Digital economy can lift Europe out of crisis, says Commission
report
August 4, 2009
The European Commission's Digital Competitiveness report shows that Europe's
digital sector has made significant progress since 2005. 56% of Europeans
now regularly use the internet, 80% of them via a high-speed connection
(compared to only one third in 2004). Europe is the world leader in broadband
internet, and it is the world's first truly mobile continent with more mobile
subscribers than citizens with a take up rate of 119%. Europe can advance
even further as a generation of "digitally savvy" young Europeans
becomes a strong market driver for growth and innovation.*
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=5146&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=tpa-7
ALA Council calls on libraries to follow accessibility standards
in purchasing
August 4, 2008
The American Library Association (ALA) Council recommends that all libraries
purchasing, procuring, and contracting for electronic resources and services
require vendors to certify that they comply with widely accepted accessibility
standards. These standards include federal regulations based on Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).*
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/august2009/accessibility_council.cfm
Google Library Project Settlement
July 29, 2009
The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research
Libraries, and
the Association of Research Libraries wrote to follow-up on their
May 27, 2009 meeting with Antitrust Division staff concerning the proposed
settlement of the Google Library Project litigation. The library association
representatives believe that the Antitrust Division itself should take a
proactive role in the implementation of the settlement.*
http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/GOOGLEDOJ.pdf
Government of Canada Invests in Digitization of Canadian Multicultural
Newspapers
July 30, 2009
Canadian Heritage has announced funding for Athabasca University's "Connecting
Canadians: Canada's Multicultural Newspapers" initiative. The project
will digitize and deploy to the Web up to 20 multicultural newspapers on
an open access basis.*
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/pc-ch/infoCntr/cdm-mc/index-eng.cfm?action=doc&DocIDCd=CR090593
National Broadband Maps
July 24, 2009
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/720.nsf/eng/h_50010.html
ARTICLES
Pour une réforme équitable du droit d'auteur
Olivier Charbonneau
Le Devoir, 6 août 2009
« Le gouvernement canadien a lancé une consultation publique
sur la réforme de la Loi sur le droit d'auteur. Ce sujet soulève
rapidement les passions, les nouvelles possibilités qu'offre le monde
virtuel n'aidant en rien les choses. Non seulement les violations prennent
une ampleur planétaire, mais nous tous, simples citoyens, anciennement
réservés au rôle de consommateurs, pouvons maintenant
agir à titre de créateurs et de diffuseurs culturels grâce
aux nouveaux outils numériques. Un examen des enjeux s'impose donc
du point de vue de cette nouvelle réalité. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/08/06/261761.html
Copyright: Let's take ownership: Outdated legislation hinders Canada's
digital engagement
Mira Sundara Rajan
Globe and Mail, August 4, 2009
Canada is badly in need of copyright law reform. It is an issue that Canadians
should care about deeply, and in which we should be engaged. As it applies
to digital technology, Canada's copyright law is significantly behind the
times. The Canadian Copyright Act was last amended in 1997 – before
the file-sharing era, before Internet use was as widespread as it is now,
and before the recent tidal wave of global change that has swamped the music,
movie, and software industries. The shortcomings of Canadian copyright law
have been apparent for a long time, but successive governments' attempts
to reform the law have failed.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/copyright-lets-take-ownership/article1238407/
Reinventing academic publishing online. Part I: Rigor, relevance
and practice
Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 8, August 3, 2009
Current computing practice abounds with such innovations as online auctions,
blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games. Few if any
genuinely new theories, however, have taken root in the corresponding “top”
academic journals. Whitworth and Friedman chronicle the inevitable limits
of what they describe as a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with
trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self–involvement
and inaccessibility. They predict an social upheaval in academic publishing
as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by
the few to knowledge managed by the many.*
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2609/2248
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers
Neal Beagrie et al
Ariadne, Issue 60, July 2009
Data has always been fundamental to many areas of research, but it is in
recent years that it has become central to more disciplines and inter-disciplinary
projects, and has grown substantially in scale and complexity. There is
increasing awareness of its value in addressing modern global challenges
such as climate change, and the possibilities being unlocked by rapid technological
advances and their application in research. The article presents the results
of a survey that was undertaken between March and October 2008 and conducted
as an online questionnaire with a series of nine focus groups at the Universities
of Bristol, Leeds and Leicester (three at each institution). A series of
qualitative interviews and a workshop carried out with Oxford researchers
are also discussed *
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/beagrie-et-al/
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace
July 11, 2009
Library and publishing innovators offered concrete data and strategies
for “Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication
marketplace,” at the SPARC-ACRL forum held at the Chicago meeting
of the American Library Association. The forum took a bird’s eye view
of the scholarly communication marketplace and suggested tactics for navigating
through tough times.*
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala09/
Final OLE Project Report
July 26, 2009
A draft of the final report on the OLE Project is available for community
feedback. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library
Environment project (OLE Project) convened a multi-national group of libraries
to analyze library business processes and to define a next-generation library
technology platform. The OLE platform is predicated on Service Oriented
Architecture and a community-source model of development and governance.*
http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-report/
Author's Rights, Tout de Suite
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., 2008
Author's Rights, Tout de Suite gives journal article authors a quick introduction
to key aspects of author's rights. The guide includes references to online
documents and links to pertinent Web sites to foster further exploration
of this topic.*
http://www.archive.org/details/AuthorsRightsToutDeSuite
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Europeana plenary 2009: Creation, Collaboration & Copyright
The Hague, Netherlands, September 14-15, 2009
The 2009 Europeana plenary will bring ideas and inspiration to the
next level, and explore different possibilities for content re-use, mash-up
and APIs as well as public domain and associated copyright issues.
Author of the book We Think and the recent essay The Art of With, Charles
Leadbeater, will provide the keynote address.*
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/guest/plenary/
Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop
Camrose, Alberta, December 3, 2009
This workshop focuses on inquiry-based approaches to information literacy
where the end point of instruction is not the mastery of information-handling
skills (locating, accessing, and evaluating information), but rather a constructivist
approach that emphasizes the development of deeper knowledge and understanding.
The workshop also introduces an instructional design approach based on Carol
Kuhlthau's Information Search Process model, which provides a conceptual
instruction framework that fosters students' information-to-knowledge journey.
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/augustana/infolit/workshop/
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
