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Friday November 20, 2009 / le vendredi 20 novembre 2009

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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC

CARL’s brief to the Canadian Copyright Consultation featured in Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy

The November 2009 edition of Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy (Volume 2, Issue 2) features 9 of the best submissions to the 2009 Copyright Consultation, including the brief submitted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). PDF

Mémoire de l’ABRC pour la Consultation sur le droit d’auteur du 2009 présenté dans Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy

L’édition du novembre 2009 de la revue Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy (Volume 2, Numéro 2) met en vedette 9 des meilleurs mémoires présentés à la Consultation sur le droit d’auteur du 2009, incluant celui présenté par l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC). PDF

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries Endorses New Strategic Plan

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is very pleased to announce that its members unanimously endorsed a new Strategic Plan (2010 – 2012) at CARL’s 2009 Fall General Meeting. PDF

L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada adopte un nouveau plan stratégique

L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) est très heureuse d’annoncer que ses membres ont entériné unanimement un nouveau plan stratégique (2010‑2012) à leur assemblée générale de l’automne de 2009. PDF

CARL Awards three Research in Librarianship Grants

This is the first year the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is issuing the Research in Librarianship Grant. Because of the generally high quality of the research proposals submitted in response to the grant announcement CARL issued over the summer, the CARL Library Education Working Group that reviewed the applications awarded three research grants of $2000 to Dean Giustini (University of British Columbia) for his project titled "Canadian academic librarians and their use of social media; a two-phase survey", to Laura Briggs (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) for her project titled “More than a Rubber Stamp? The Role of Collection Librarians in Curriculum consultations,” and to Kristin Hoffmann (University of Western Ontario) and Selinda Berg’s (University of Windsor) project titled “Co-op placements in academic libraries: Their role in the formation of librarians' professional identity.” PDF

L’ABRC attribue trois subventions de recherche en bibliothéconomie

C’est la première année que l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) accorde cette subvention. Étant donné la qualité généralement élevée des propositions présentées en réponse à l’annonce de la subvention, publiée cet été, le Groupe de travail de l’ABRC sur la formation en bibliothéconomie, qui a examiné les demandes, a attribué trois subventions de recherche de 2000 $ à Dean Giustini (University of British Columbia) pour son projet intitulé « Canadian academic librarians and their use of social media; a two-phase survey », à Laura Briggs (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) pour son projet intitulé « More than a Rubber Stamp? The Role of Collection Librarians in Curriculum consultations » et à Kristin Hoffmann (University of Western Ontario) et Selinda Berg (University of Windsor) pour leur projet intitulé « Co-op placements in academic libraries: Their role in the formation of librarians’ professional identity ». PDF

Hon. Claudette Tardif (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Congratulates Ernie Ingles on becoming President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Debates of the Senate (Hansard), 2nd Session, 40th Parliament,
Volume 146, Issue 63, Tuesday, October 27, 2009

“Honourable senators, I am pleased to rise today to congratulate Mr. Ernie Ingles, Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian of the University of Alberta, who was recently designated President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. For over 30 years, Ernie Ingles has been a key player in the Canadian library community. As part of his commitment to Canadian libraries, Mr. Ingles has been a member of numerous associations, such as the Bibliographic Society of Canada, the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, and has served as President of the Canadian Library Association.” Read the rest of the comments: HTML

L'honorable Claudette Tardif (leader adjoint de l'opposition) au sujet de Ernie Ingles et l’Association des bibliothques de recherche du Canada
Débats du Sénat (hansard), 2e Session, 40e Législature,
Volume 146, Numéro 63, mardi 27 octobre 2009

« Honorables sénateurs, je suis heureuse de prendre la parole aujourd'hui pour féliciter M. Ernie Ingles, vice-recteur et bibliothécaire en chef à l'Université de l'Alberta, qui a récemment été nommé président de l'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada. Pendant plus de 30 ans, Ernie Ingles a été un acteur clé de la communauté des bibliothèques du Canada. Dans le cadre de son engagement pour les bibliothèques canadiennes, M. Ingles a été membre de nombreuses associations, notamment de la Société bibliographique du Canada et du Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires des Prairies et du Pacifique, et a été le président de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques. » Lisez ce qui suit des commentaires : HTML

NEWS / NOUVELLES

Les éditeurs français hostiles au projet d'accord de Google avec des éditeurs américains
Agence France Presse, 20 novembre 2009

« Le Syndicat national des éditeurs français (SNE) considère que le projet d'accord conclu aux États-Unis par Google et les éditeurs américains «ne marque aucun progrès sur la question essentielle de la protection des oeuvres non anglo-saxonnes piratées par Google» pour son projet de bibliothèque numérique. «Le SNE reste constant dans sa position consistant à demander à Google de respecter le principe essentiel du consentement préalable des auteurs et des éditeurs avant l'utilisation de leurs oeuvres», écrivait hier dans un communiqué le syndicat, qui rassemble quelque 500 éditeurs. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/277580/les-editeurs-francais-hostiles-au-projet-d-accord-de-google-avec-des-editeurs-americains

La recherche publique contrôlée par l'industrie?
Pauline Gravel
Le Devoir, 19 novembre 2009

« Les critiques fusent depuis qu'un vice-président de Pfizer a été nommé au conseil d'administration des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC). La recherche publique en santé au Canada serait-elle en voie d'être contrôlée par l'industrie? Pour plusieurs, cette nomination a du moins toutes les apparences d'un conflit d'intérêts. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/277554/la-recherche-publique-controlee-par-l-industrie

Ocean Observatory Data Heads For Saskatchewan
Canada Views, November 19, 2009

“The Pacific Ocean is about to flow into the Canadian Prairies” with a newly inked agreement that will see a duplicate set of all the scientific data being collected by the world-leading VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatories sent to an advanced data storage system at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). This vast data library is too valuable and irreplaceable a resource to be stored in only one place, says Benoît Pirenne, associate director for information technology with NEPTUNE Canada. Under the new agreement, data from the two observatories will be continuously copied and stored at both sites—in Victoria and Saskatoon.*
http://www.canadaviews.ca/2009/11/19/ocean-observatory-data-heads-for-saskatchewan/

DataONE to deal with data deluge
November 18, 2009

Researchers at the University of California are partnering with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE, a global data access and preservation network for Earth and environmental scientists that will enable breakthroughs in environmental research. DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) is one of two $20 million awards made this year as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) DataNet program. The collaboration of universities and government agencies coalesced to address the mounting need for organizing and providing access to vast amounts of highly diverse and inter-related but often incompatible scientific data. Resulting studies will range from research that illuminates fundamental environmental processes to identifying environmental problems and potential solutions.*
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22398

Kindle comes to Canada with a $330 price tag
Gillian Shaw
Vancouver Sun, November 18, 2009

Canadians will now be able to buy Amazon's popular digital electronic book reader. Amazon.com announced Canadian availability, in time for the holiday shopping season, but “Santa will have to have dig deep to pay added duties and exchange that will push up the cost of the $259 US wireless device.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Kindle+comes+Canada+with+price/2236177/story.html

ARTICLES

Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto
Chris Bourg et al
OCLC Research, November 2009

Scholarly communication and practice have undergone radical transformations. Cloud computing, open access publishing and online social networking are transforming research practices. Researchers ask a wider range of questions, use diverse data and methods, produce new forms of scholarly output, and engage in innovative forms of research and publication. This manifesto
focuses on roles the academic library could assume in order to better support the research process.*
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-07.pdf

Skilling up to do data: whose role, whose responsibility, whose career?
Graham Pryor
The International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 2, Volume 4, 2009

Pryor discusses the roles necessary for effective data management and the kinds of expertise needed by the researchers and data specialists to fill those roles as they were explored at a workshop of data creators and curators. Delegates of that workshop challenged the Digital Curation Centre and the Research Information Network to identify the training needs and career opportunities for the cohort that finds itself working in data management – sometimes by design but more often by accident. Pryor also revisits previous investigations into the roles and responsibilities required by a “data workforce”, presents a representative spectrum of informed opinion from the DCC Research Data Management Forum, and makes some recommendations for raising capability, capacity and status.*
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/126/133

Policy Briefing: Innovation
The Hill Times, November 16, 2009

Some of the articles in this policy briefing: Transforming science and technology into innovation (Elliot A. Phillipson) – Canada must move beyond debates on the value of targeted vs. basic research; without both our innovation system will continue to underperform./ Canada must place good policy above partisan politics on innovation, science, and technology (Heather Munroe-Blum) – “No other modern jurisdiction subjects its development of sustained and effective investment in research and scholarship to the vicissitudes of politics and government transition than Canada and its provinces seem to thrive on. This brings about stuttering uncertainty.”/ Time to open up knowledge generation to people untrained in science (Elena Brief) – It is to the benefit of science and society to engage the public in supporting and questioning scientific knowledge even if that very engagement unsettles boundaries between what is and what is not deemed valid knowledge.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/section/pb

RESOURCES / RESSOURCES

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access
Primary Research Group, 2009

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access presents data on how U.S. and Canadian faculty view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report answers, among others, the following questions: Who cooperates with requests from librarians to participate in repositories and who does not? Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or academic department? A survey of more than 550 higher education faculties in the United States and Canada was conducted to gather the data which is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.*
http://www.primaryresearch.com/

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Level of Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library
Primary Research Group, 2009

Faculty present their opinions on where academic libraries should place priority. They also render judgments on journals, books, e-books, workstations and other information technologies, library facilities and even additional librarians. Some of the report’s findings are: 28.44% of faculty said that they were highly satisfied with their academic library's level of physical comfort; satisfaction was high on the issue of the library staff's capacity to deliver help when needed; more than 47% said that they were highly satisfied and 38.53% said that they were satisfied with their library's capacity to deliver help when needed; only 14.33% of the faculty in the sample said that they were highly satisfied with the adequacy of their college library's materials collection for their own personal scholarly pursuits. *
http://www.primaryresearch.com/

Copyright Watch

Details of copyright law used to matter only to a few in the creative/publishing industries. Now, with the growth of the Internet, there are many more publishers, and sharers of copyrighted works in the online environment. Copyright Watch is a user-friendly resource of national copyright laws to help citizens of the world undertake comparative research. It is also intended to help raise awareness of the importance of balanced copyright law in the information society, and draw attention to points of commonality and of difference in countries' laws and legal traditions.*
http://www.copyright-watch.org/home

EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS

WILU 2010 : Design Play Learn ~ Créer Jouer Apprendre
Hamilton, Ontario, May 12-14, 2010 ~ 12-14 mai 2010

The WILU 2010 Organizing Committee invites the submission of proposals for presentation at the 39th annual WILU (Workshop on Instruction in Library Use). This year's conference will be hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, from May 12-14, 2010 with the theme "Design Play Learn". The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2009.
http://wilu2010.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/call-for-proposals

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Le comité organisateur de WILU 2010 vous invite à soumettre une proposition de communication pour la 39e édition de l'Atelier annuel de la formation documentaire, plus communément connu sous son acronyme anglophone WILU, qui aura lieu à la McMaster University du 12 au 14 mai 2010. Le thème de cette année, « Créer Jouer Apprendre », permettra un examen, entre autres, des pratiques exemplaires du design pédagogique et de la pédagogie du jeu. La date limite pour soumettre une proposition de communication est le 15 décembre 2009.
http://wilu2010.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/demande-de-communications

*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source