E-Lert # 340 / Cyberavis no. 340
Friday August 28, 2009 / le vendredi
28 août 2009
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
Leaders of Canada’s research library community participating
at more copyright roundtables and another town hall meeting
More directors of Canadian research libraries are participating
in the copyright consultations that will continue until September 13, 2009.
Ernie Ingles spoke on behalf of the University of Alberta at a roundtable
meeting in Edmonton on August 21; Leslie Weir (University of Ottawa) represented
the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) at a town hall meeting
held in Toronto on August 27; Victoria Owen (University of Toronto, Scarborough)
will speak for the Ontario Library Association (OLA) at a roundtable meeting
to be held in Peterborough on September 1. Audio files and transcripts of
the town hall and roundtable meetings will be posted on the government’s
Copyright Consultations website.
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Des dirigeants de la communauté des bibliothèques de recherche
au Canada participent à d’autres tables rondes ainsi qu’à
une autre assemblée publique sur le droit d’auteur
D’autres directeurs des bibliothèques de recherche au Canada
participent aux consultations sur le droit d’auteur qui continuent
jusqu’au 13 septembre 2009. Ernie Ingles a prit la parole pour la
University of Alberta à une table ronde à Edmonton le 21 août ;
Leslie Weir (Université d’Ottawa) a représentée
l’Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) à une assemblée
publique à Toronto le 27 août ; Victoria Owen (University
of Toronto, Scarborough) prendra la parole pour l’Ontario Library
Association (OLA) à une table ronde qui aura lieu à Peterborough
le 1er septembre. Les fichiers sonores et les transcriptions des tables
rondes et de l’assemblée publique seront affichés au
site
web des consultations sur le droit d’auteur du gouvernement.
As Google Settlement Hits Homestretch, Libraries Push for Changes
Andrew Albanese
Publishers Weekly, August 26, 2009
Libraries have ramped up efforts to have the deal altered as the Google
Book Search settlement deadline to object or file comments with the court
is fast approaching. The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) has called for changes
in the settlement plan, as did New York State librarian Bernard Margolis,
in a separate open letter to library community leaders. “This is a
pivotal moment in the history of access to recorded information, not unlike
the introduction of moveable type or the birth of the Internet,” wrote
Susan Benton, the ULC’s
new president and CEO, in a letter to the federal court overseeing approval
of the settlement. “It is important, therefore, that the needs of
the public at large shape the thinking of those responsible for guiding
this extraordinary advance.” *
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6685906.html
BNF et Google : l'insupportable tête-à-queue
Jean-Noël Jeanneney
Le Figaro, 26 août 2009
L'ancien président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France,
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ne cache pas sa colère de voir la BNF mener
des discussions avec Google pour sa bibliothèque numérique.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/debats/2009/08/27/01005-20090827ARTFIG00001-bnf-et-google-l-insupportable-tete-a-queue-.php
Financement de la recherche universitaire - Le «Groupe des
cinq» veut la plus grosse part du gâteau
Lisa-Marie Gervais, 25 août 2009
« Afin d'être concurrentiels à l'échelle mondiale, les recteurs des cinq plus importantes universités du Canada souhaitent se voir attribuer la plus grosse part des fonds à la recherche pour attirer les meilleurs étudiants aux études supérieures. C'est l'essentiel du message qu'ont livré les recteurs de l'Université de Montréal, de l'Université McGill, de l'Université de Toronto, de l'Université d'Alberta et de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique (UBC) au magazine Macleans dans une entrevue réalisée à la mi-juillet. Ils ont ainsi suggéré que les autres universités du pays se concentrent sur la formation au premier cycle, laissant à celles du «Groupe des cinq» (Big five) la tâche de faire diplômer le plus grand nombre d'étudiants au doctorat et à la maîtrise. »
No to a second-tier educational model
Roseann O'Reilly Runte
Globe and Mail, August 25, 2009
The present university system in Canada must be maintained. O’Reilly
Runte argues that, with the economy lagging, universities play an important
role providing additional education and training. Universities provide the
creative spark that sets up new ventures and attracts business. We need
to develop the brilliant ideas generated not only in Canada’s largest
urban centres, but also in small communities across the country.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/no-to-a-second-tier-educational-model/article1262807/
Five universities team up to push for the lion's share of research
dollars
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail, August 24, 2009
The leaders of the universities of British Columbia, Alberta, Toronto and
Montreal, and McGill have started a raging debate on the nation's campuses,
arguing that Canada needs an elite group of postsecondary institutions concentrated
on research and graduate education as part of a national strategy for higher
education. They have run up against criticism from peers, however, who consider
their efforts a less-than-subtle attempt to get a larger share of scarce
resources.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/five-universities-team-up-to-push-for-the-lions-share-of-research-dollars/article1261964/
[See also Karen Birchard, Canada's Elite Universities
Propose a National Strategy for Higher Education, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, August 17, 2009
http://chronicle.com/article/Canadas-Elite-Universities/48013/]
L'Encyclopédie de la vie s'anime
le Devoir, 24 août 2009
« Le site Internet de l'Encyclopédie
de la Vie, lancé en 2007 pour répertorier les 1,8 million
d'espèces vivantes connues, compte déjà plus de 150
000 pages (une par espèce), indiquaient les promoteurs de ce projet
de dix ans. Près de deux millions de personnes dans plus de 200 pays
l'ont consultée depuis l'ouverture du site début 2008, précisent-ils. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/08/24/263886.html
Tough questions in antitrust review confront Microsoft-Yahoo challenge
to Google
Joelle Tessler and Michael Liedtke
Washington Examiner, August 24, 2009
Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hope to tilt the balance of power in Internet
search away from Google Inc. by joining forces, but they must first convince
regulators that their plan won't hurt online advertisers and consumers.
European regulators are also expected to review the deal. As Microsoft and
Yahoo brace for probes that could extend into early next year, the outcome
is far from certain.*
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/54322062.html
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People
Noam Cohen
The New York Times, August 24, 2009
As the English-language version of Wikipedia surpasses three million articles,
the online encyclopedia’s freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.
Officials at the Wikimedia
Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say
that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will place a layer of
editorial review on articles about living people.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Open Access Mandate from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health
Research in British Columbia
Gavin Baker
Open Access News, August 22, 2009
The Board of Directors of the Michael
Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), adopted an Open
Access to Research Outputs Policy on July 6, 2009. The MSFHR is the
provincial support agency for health research in British Columbia and is
funded by the Government of BC.*
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/08/new-oa-mandate-from-bc-canada-health.html
EuropeanaConnect opens door to Europe's sound collections
August 18, 2009
Fourteen European Union member states have joined forces to create EuropeanaConnect,
an EU-funded project that will stream digital content from Europe's
sound collections into Europeana.eu. EuropeanaConnect will make 100 000
audio files available for download to mobile devices. It is one of several
projects channeling content to Europeana.eu which currently links
to nearly 5 million digital resources from Europe’s museums, archives,
libraries and audiovisual collections.*
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=520
Methodspace membership sees growth
August 17, 2009
Since it was launched less than six months ago, the online social
network for the research methods community, Methodspace, has gained
over 2000 members. The social network supports online discussion about
all aspects of research methodology. Users include students, researchers,
medical and business professionals, and teachers from over 100 countries representing
a broad range of disciplines, and including quantitative, qualitative and
mixed research methods.*
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=517
ARTICLES
FESTSCHRIFT Honoring Duane E. Webster
Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries 1988–2008
Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 9, Number 3, July 2009
This special issue takes stock of Duane E. Webster’s impact on the
field of academic and research librarianship through his work with the Association
of Research Libraries from 1970 to 2008. The articles were presented at
a special symposium held at Columbia University in the spring of 2008 in
honor of Mr. Webster – including the piece contributed by Mark Haslett
(University of Waterloo) entitled “Canada, Copyright, and the Common
Good.” *
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/toc/pla.9.3.html
Google Book Search? Try Google Library
Tom Krazit
CNET News, August 27, 2009
Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates are preparing to discuss the
implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that, if implemented,
will allow it to bring millions of books online. At issue are concerns over
privacy, quality, and Google's
intent with the project, the only one of its kind in the U.S. to receive
the legal authority to scan books that are out of print but under copyright
protection, and comprising 50 to 70 percent of all books published since
1923 according to the Internet
Archive. "There's a lot of questions about how they will balance
(their) mandate as a for-profit corporation and their mission to provide
universal access to information," says Angela Maycock of the American
Library Association.*
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10318843-265.html
Progressive signals? From the Tories? On copyright?
Ivor Tossell
Globe and Mail, August 26, 2009
Copyright roundtables have brought together the usual suspects in the Canadian
copyright debate: academics who want looser copyright, cultural groups concerned
that their livelihoods are being undercut, Internet giants craving more
traffic and less liability, videogame makers trying to stamp out piracy,
and law-and-order types who want to make freeloading hippies pay. The public
town-halls and online forums, on the other hand, have let more citizens
in, and their perspectives don't always line up with the institutional voices.
Online discussion has been boisterous, attracting over 800 comments so far.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/progressive-signals-from-the-tories-on-copyright/article1266140/
Canada needs new paradigm for research and innovation
Ron Freedman
Toronto Star, August 26, 2009
Doom and gloom warnings about major cuts to publicly funded research mask
a deeper malaise over the future of research in Canada according to Freedman.
Policy leaders have run out of new ideas about how to tap the creative potential
of the country's universities, colleges, research hospitals and, most important,
companies. Canada is stuck in a 20th century paradigm of research funding
that is proving increasingly unsuited to the 21st.*
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/686405
Comment Internet transforme les habitudes de lecture
Yves Miserey
Le Figaro, 26 août 2009
« En ouvrant les vannes de l'information à l'échelle
planétaire, Internet a complètement modifié certaines
façons de lire. Les changements sont déjà perceptibles
mais ils sont loin d'être terminés si l'on en croit l'étude
qu'Allen Renear et Carole Palmer, de l'université de l'Illinois,
consacrent aux nouvelles stratégies de lecture des chercheurs (Science,
14 août 2009). Les chercheurs lisent plus d'articles mais passent
moins de temps dessus. Pour classer la somme colossale de connaissances
produites chaque jour, ils utilisent des nouvelles bases de données
qui préfigurent l'Internet de demain. »
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2009/08/26/01008-20090826ARTFIG00236-comment-internet-transforme-les-habitudes-de-lecture-.php
Why are artists poor? Self promotion and making money in the new
digital economy
Andrew Keen
Telegraph, August 25, 2009
As the disruptive pace of technological change in the media business has
dramatically increased, the debate about the impact of the Internet on high
cultural artists and organizations has also intensified. With the old mass
media industries of television, newspapers, book publishing, recorded music
and movies being fundamentally restructured by the digital economy, it’s
become clear that the early 21st century digital revolution is having as
profound an effect on culture as the mid 19th century industrial revolution.*
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6087124/Why-are-artists-poor-Self-promotion-and-making-money-in-the-new-digital-economy.html
Internet et son potentiel démocratique
Franck Louvrier
Le Monde, 22 août 2009
« Après les élections américaines, qui avaient
démontré au monde la puissance mobilisatrice des réseaux
sociaux (Facebook et MyBarackobama.com), c'est la crise iranienne qui a
sensibilisé la planète au pouvoir d'information des sites
dits de "microblogging", dont Twitter.com est le premier à
toucher une audience internationale. Depuis les rues de Téhéran,
les témoignages en temps réel ont afflué sur Twitter
pour étancher la soif d'expression des jeunes Iraniens, et combler
l'appétit d'information de médias classiques empêchés
de faire leur travail sur place. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2009/08/21/internet-et-son-potentiel-democratique-par-franck-louvrier_1230562_3232.html#xtor=RSS-651865
Investigating Primary Source Literacy
Joanne Archer et al
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, article in press, August 21, 2009
Research on “primary source literacy” is still in its infancy.
Although the library community has produced decades’ worth of research
related to bibliographic instruction and information literacy, special collections
and archives practitioners have been slower to address these matters. Archer
et al present their results from a user study testing the effectiveness
of a Web guide designed to convey the concepts behind “primary source
literacy”. The authors also evaluated students' strengths and weaknesses
when conducting primary source research.*
What Qualifications and Skills are Important for Digital Librarian
Positions in Academic Libraries? A Job Advertisement Analysis
Youngok Choi and Edie Rasmussen
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, article in press, August 20, 2009
Choi and Rasmussen examine qualifications and skills required of professional positions involved in digital resources, services, and technologies as changing aspects of academic libraries. The authors collected data from job advertisements for digital library positions posted in College and Research Libraries News during the nine years from 1999 to 2007. The study results verify shifts in staffing needs and required qualifications, confirm that a digital librarian is an emerging position in academic libraries and suggests educational implications.*
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Institutional Repositories: Revised Staff and Skills Set
Mary Robinson
SHERPA, August 25, 2009
Additions to the 2009 version include advice on how the document can be
used in planning hosted repositories, and in addition to the JISC
recruitment toolkit
released earlier this year. The IR Staff and Skill Set document is not designed
to describe the skills set required of a particular repository position
but rather is a list of the entire set of skills, knowledge and abilities
required for the development and management of a successful institutional
repository.*
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/Staff_and_Skills_Set_2009.pdf
EAC-CPF Schema
Archivists have discussed the need for a standard structure for the recording
and exchange of information about the creators of archival materials. A
group of archivists met in Toronto, Canada, in March 2001 to create a high-level
model for such information and to draft a strategy and test it. The group
termed the model "Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons,
and Families" (EAC-CPF) to emphasize its important role in archival
description and its relationship with the Encoded Archival Description standard.*
http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
The Hill Times: Articles on politicians’ behaviour and advice for lobbyists
Hot tips for lobbyists on information-gathering (W. T. Stanbury, August 3, 2009) – “Lobbyists are frequently advised to get in early to have the best chance of getting what they want from government. Getting in early is the challenge.” ; Coping with uncertainty and risk: advice for lobbyists (W.T. Stanbury, July 27, 2009) – This article considers uncertainty and risk from a lobbyist’s perspective. Stanbury recommends recognizing uncertainty, contingency planning, anticipating other players’ actions and reactions, and gathering more and better information. ; Importance of uncertainty in trying to understand politicians’ behaviour (W.T. Stanbury, July 20, 2009) – Stanbury examines the nature, sources and consequences of pervasive uncertainty in the political arena.
Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s
Learning
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, January 2009
The trajectory for academic and life success is established in the preschool
and primary years, when children develop new habits for learning and social
development. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children as young
as eight years old spend as many hours engaging with various “screens”
as they do in school. While health and development experts as well as concerned
parents are increasingly asking whether this is a harmful phenomenon in
so much as it may promote a sedentary lifestyle, the primacy of digital
media in children’s lives is here to stay. Although health concerns
are valid, further study on the potential of digital media to aid learning,
especially for low-income children, is long overdue.
http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/pdf/pockets_of_potential.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Tackling Technology Together: Best Practices Exchange 2009
Albany, New York, September 2-4, 2009
The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) brings together archivists, attorneys,
information technology professionals, librarians, educators, product developers,
records managers, and others interested in the management and preservation
of digital information in state government. Attendees will discuss experiences,
successes, failures, and lessons learned in efforts to manage the digital
assets of state governments. Small-group exchange sessions will cover four
broad tracks related to digital information in the state government environment:
finding funding, creative collaboration, educating each other, and living
without closure – e.g. moving from project to program, defining
“finished” in the digital age, planning for an unknown future,
etc.
http://www.bpexchange.org/2009/
Canadian Science Policy Conference / Conférence sur le Politiques
Scientifiques Canadiennes
Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2009 / 28-30 octobre 2009
This conference represents a measured first step towards building a robust
science policy network in Canada. Such a system will be critical for producing
the next generation of policy-makers who understand S&T issues, as well
as scientists who understand how to integrate their research into a broader
societal context for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/
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Cette conférence représente un premier pas vers la création
d’un réseau canadien robuste se concentrant sur les politiques
scientifiques. Ce système est nécessaire pour produire la
prochaine génération de décideurs qui saisissent les
enjeux reliés aux sciences et technologies, ainsi que des scientifiques
qui comprennent comment intégrer leur recherche dans un contexte
social élargi pour le bénéfice de tous les Canadiens.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/fr/
Classification at a crossroads: multiple directions to usability
The Hague, October 29-30, 2009
The "Classification at a Crossroads" conference will address
the potential of classification, UDC in particular, to support information
organization, management and resource discovery in the networked environment,
and will explore solutions for better subject access control and vocabulary
sharing services. Some specific topics the conference will cover are: classification
and semantic technologies; classification in supporting information integration;
verbal and multilingual access to classification; classification and library
systems; visual representations/interface to classification; and experiences
with classification outside the traditional library environment.*
http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm
EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado, November 3 – 6, 2009
These are challenging times when the need for uncommon thinking is unprecedented.
Participants at EDUCAUSE 2009 will be able to tap into an expansive pool
of the best thinking in higher education IT. This year’s conference
promises to deliver one of the richest, most member-driven programs ever,
keenly focused on providing the kind of tangible benefits attendees can
take back to campus and use all year long – for example: more perspectives
and insight with lightning rounds built into every track; more global viewpoints
and a 100% increase in sessions featuring international speakers; more diversity
of opinion: increased numbers of sessions spotlighting multiple presenters;
numerous networking opportunities; and increased focus on some of the most
complex issues in higher learning such as cloud computing; emerging technologies;
distributed, cooperative, and blended learning environments; the latest
on P2P regulations; green and sustainable IT; and much more.*
http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=399
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
