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Friday June 4, 2010 / le vendredi 4 juin 2010

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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC

Ryerson University Library and Archives joins CARL as its 32nd member

At the 2010 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), members unanimously voted to welcome the Ryerson University Library and Archives (RULA) as the 32nd member of the Association. PDF

La Ryerson University Library and Archives se joint aux rangs de l’ABRC et devient le 32e membre de l’Association

À l’assemblée générale annuelle 2010 de l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC), les membres ont unanimement voté en faveur de l’acceptation, dans leurs rangs, de la bibliothèque et des archives de la Ryerson University (Ryerson University Library and Archives; RULA), qui devient le 32e membre de l’Association. PDF

NEWS / NOUVELLES
Ontario to appoint provincial chief scientist
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 24, Number 8, June 4, 2010

Ontario is pushing ahead with plans to establish a chief scientist for the province following premier Dalton McGuinty's announcement while on a life sciences trade mission to Israel. The new position — a first for Canadian provinces — would help to identify commercialization opportunities, especially those relating to its three R&D priorities — life sciences, green energy and clean water and provide advice on how to achieve better alignment of the various players in the innovation system.

Canadian Library Association Gives Passing Grade to New Copyright Legislation - User Rights Still Tempered by Digital Locks
June 3, 2010

The Canadian Library Association (CLA) finds much to applaud in the government’s newly announced copyright legislation, Bill C-32. CLA is heartened that Bill C-32 gives users some new rights, but is disappointed that longstanding rights, the heart of copyright’s balance, as well as the new rights, are all tempered by the over-reach of digital locks.
http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=9532

AUCC welcomes new copyright bill
June 3, 2010

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada welcomes the federal government’s efforts to modernize the current copyright law. The proposed legislation strikes a fair balance between creators and users of copyright works and will facilitate online learning. AUCC will study the bill in more detail and looks forward to expressing its views on the proposed legislation during hearings of the House of Commons Industry Committee, and drawing to the government’s attention the areas of the bill it finds require amendment to ensure appropriate balance in the legislation.*
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2010/copyright_06_03_e.html

The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable
Michael Geist, June 2, 2010

The government has introduced the Copyright Modernization Act, the long-awaited copyright reform bill. It is nearly two years since C-61 was introduced and nearly a year since the national copyright consultation, yet discouragingly some things are still unchanged. Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore seems to have won the internal fight over Industry Minister Tony Clement for a repeat of C-61's digital lock provisions and against a flexible fair dealing approach and the new bill reflects those policy victories. The bill does contain some important extensions of fair dealing, including new exceptions for parody, satire, and education.*
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php
[Of related interest, Michael Geist, An unofficial users’ guide to the coming copyright bill, Toronto Star, May 24, 2010 http://www.thestar.com/business/article/813657--geist-an-unofficial-user-s-guide-to-the-coming-copyright-bill]

Ottawa modernise sa loi sur le droit d'auteur
Lia Lévesque
La Presse, 2 juin 2010

Les Canadiens pourront continuer d'enregistrer leurs oeuvres préférées à des fins personnelles en vertu du projet de loi sur les droits d'auteur déposé mercredi, mais uniquement si cette oeuvre n'est pas protégée par une serrure numérique. La protection qu'assure cette serrure numérique est au centre du projet de loi modernisant la Loi sur le droit d'auteur, qu'ont présenté mercredi à Montréal les ministres fédéraux de l'Industrie, Tony Clement, et du Patrimoine canadien, James Moore.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/201006/02/01-4286257-ottawa-modernise-sa-loi-sur-le-droit-dauteur.php

Ian Wilson Receives Honorary Degree
June 1, 2010

The University of Saskatchewan Library congratulates Ian E. Wilson on the occasion of the awarding of an honarary Doctor of Letters degree at Convocation on June 1, 2010, at the University of Saskatchewan. Wilson is the Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. In presenting Ian E. Wilson at the ceremony, Dean Vicki Williamson noted: "During a long professional career, Ian Wilson has been focused on safeguarding the integrity of Canadian's public records while at the same time encouraging Canadians to use and learn from them.”*
http://library.usask.ca/spotlight/wilson

New Dean of Library Services / University Librarian Announced for SFU
May 31, 2010

Dr. Charles Eckman has been appointed Dean of Library Services/University Librarian at Simon Fraser University for a five-year term commencing September 1, 2010. Dr. Eckman comes to SFU from the University of California at Berkeley, where he is responsible for a broad portfolio in his role as Associate University Librarian. Mr. Eckman has developed policies and procedures to match user needs to collections access and preservation, and has worked with faculty and library colleagues to chart a sustainable future for scholarly communication.*
http://blogs.sfu.ca/departments/fraserlibrary/?m=201005

ORION launches Canada’s first R&E backup storage service
Exchange, May 31, 2010

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) launched Canada’s first backup storage service dedicated exclusively to research and education institutions. The new service is expected to bring significant benefits and efficiencies to universities, colleges and other research and education facilities across Ontario.
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2010/week22/Monday/053103.html

Library of Congress and Columbia University Agree to Develop Geospatial Data-Preservation Clearinghouse
May 28, 2010

Digital maps, satellite images and other forms of geospatial data are critically important for responding to disasters, protecting the environment and a host of other matters. Evolving technology and other threats, however, put much of this information in danger of being lost. The Library of Congress and Columbia University have announced an agreement to build a web-based clearinghouse of information about best practices for preserving geospatial data.*
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-133.html

Marvell backs ambitious $100 OLPC tablet
Donald Bell
CNet News, May 27, 2010

Following on the success of the OLPC XO-1 laptop, the One Laptop Per Child foundation is planning to build a working $100 tablet for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2011. Marvell Technologies announced that it will partner with the OLPC foundation to create the hardware for the proposed tablet, currently named the XO-3.*
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006211-1.html

Gadgets for Disabled Computer Users
Toby Shuster
Take Part, May 27, 2010

We often take for granted the ability to surf the Internet, email a friend, or pay a bill online. But many people have disabilities that inhibit them from using computers. Fortunately, there are technologies both currently on the market and in development that will make computing easier for those who are disabled.*
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/05/25/8-gadgets-for-disabled-computer-users

$2.5-M gift will allow Library to share wealth of hidden treasures
May 26, 2010

The McMaster Library has received $2.5-million from the Lewis and Ruth Sherman Foundation - the largest private donation in the library's history - to digitize its extensive research collections, ensuring they will be accessible to a vast audience. The gift will be used to establish The Lewis and Ruth Sherman Foundation Digitization and Preservation Centre, which will be located in Mills Memorial Library.
http://library.mcmaster.ca/news/6277

Harvard’s paper cuts
Tracy Jan
The Boston Globe, May 24, 2010

A thin, tattered book, an 1899 dissertation on Homer, written in French, is tucked into one of the more than 40 shelves devoted to the epic poet in the stacks of Widener Library. Collecting obscure works like this one has helped Harvard amass the world’s largest university library collection. But the days of accumulating every important title and artifact under the scholarly sun are over for Harvard’s labyrinthine system of 73 libraries.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/05/24/for_harvards_library_an_arduous_digital_shift/

New Queen’s University Librarian Appointed
May 19, 2010

Queen’s University Library will have new leadership on July 1, 2010. Paul Wiens, who has served as University Librarian so ably for nearly two decades, will be stepping down to begin an administrative leave followed by retirement. Martha Whitehead, currently Associate University Librarian, will become University Librarian for a three year term.
http://library.queensu.ca/news/archives/1419

City Librarian Paul Whitney Announces Retirement
May 18, 2010

Vancouver Public Library Board Chair Joan Andersen has announced that City Librarian Paul Whitney will be retiring from the Library effective December 31, 2010. Under Whitney’s leadership the Library has received national and international recognition for initiatives in fostering community development work with marginalized individuals, outreach to pre-school children and service to the print disabled.
http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/news/details/city_librarian_paul_whitney_announces_retirement

Investment in digital economy holds key to Europe's future prosperity, says Commission report
May 17, 2010

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have driven half of the productivity growth in Europe over the past 15 years. Six out of ten Europeans regularly use the internet. However, if Europe wants to fully exploit the potential benefits of the digital economy, it must step up a gear and provide faster broadband and an internet people trust, improve citizens' skills, and encourage even more ICT innovation. The European Commission will propose specific measures in these areas with its Digital Agenda for Europe, a flagship of the Europe 2020 strategy, to be launched shortly.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=5789

ARTICLES
Behold, our digital future
Bernard Courtois
Globe and Mail, June 2, 2010

From smart phones to GPS systems, digital tools shape modern life. Bernard Courtois, chief of the Information Technology Association, asks whether Canada is prepared to take the lead on the global stage.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/business-categories/biz-categories-technology/behold-our-digital-future/article1589878/

North American Digital Copyright, Regional Governance and the Persistence of Variation
Blayne Haggart
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 1-3, 2010

Using an historical institutionalist perspective Haggart examines the North American implementation of two U.S.-backed treaties –the WIPO Internet treaties – to demonstrate the subtle regional dynamics and dominant domestic politics that have led the three NAFTA countries to adopt very different policies based on the same treaty. Referring specifically to the most controversial part of these treaties – the provision of legal protection for digital locks placed on digital materials – Haggart argues that the differential implementation of the treaties by the three countries is the result of the NAFTA’s guarantee of market access and the persistence of domestic copyright and parliamentary institutions.*
http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2010/Haggart.pdf

D-Lib Magazine - Special Issue on Digital Libraries in China
May/June 2010, Volume 16, Number 5/6

This issue is devoted to the topic of digital library efforts in China. The editors have gathered contributions from a group of authors who speak authoritatively on current projects in China. Four of those articles, describing current and past projects from a non-technical perspective, appear in this issue while some of the more technical articles will appear in later issues this year.*
http://www.dlib.org/

The Coming Data Explosion
Richard MacManus
ReadWriteWeb, May 31, 2010

One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects are connected to the Internet - is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more "things" in the world are connected to the Internet, it follows that more data will be uploaded to and downloaded from the cloud.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_coming_data_explosion.php

L'iPad amorce l'ère de l'accès à l'information dans le quotidien
Bruno Guglielminetti
Le Devoir, 31 mai 2010

l'iPad recouvert d'un étui de protection, il ressemble à s'y méprendre à un agenda Quo Vadis de grande taille. Mais évidemment, une fois l'étui ouvert et l'appareil en marche, on est loin d'un simple agenda. On retrouve alors, en plus d'un agenda, une fenêtre sur le monde de l'information, du divertissement et de la productivité. Tout ça à partir d'une tablette, par l'entremise de sites Web ou par des applications qui pullulent sous la créativité de milliers de développeurs à travers la planète.
http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/289894/technologie-l-ipad-amorce-l-ere-de-l-acces-a-l-information-dans-le-quotidien

Crowd Science Reaches New Heights
Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2010

Highly-regarded astronomer Alexander S. Szalay hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade. Instead, the professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University learned how to write software code, build computer servers, and stitch millions of digital telescope images into a sweeping panorama of the universe. Along the way, thanks to a friendship with a prominent computer scientist, he was instrumental in reinventing the way astronomy is studied, guiding it from a largely solo pursuit to a discipline in which sharing is the norm.*
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rise-of-Crowd-Science/65707/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The Humanities go Google
Marc Parry
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2010

Stanford University English professor Matthew L. Jockers may be the first to assign 1,200 novels in one class. Lucky for the students, they don't have to read them. As grunts in Stanford's new Literature Lab, these students investigate the evolution of literary style by teaming up like biologists and using computer programs to analyze an entire library. It's a controversial vision for changing a field still steeped in individual readers' careful analyses of texts. Nevertheless, for any discipline where research focuses on books, some experts say, academe is at a computational crossroads.*
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Planetarium - Planets Newsletter Issue 10
May 28, 2010

Planets’ tenth and final newsletter underlines the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) which will take over when Planets winds down by 31 May 2010. The appointed director of OPF - Bram van der Werf - is introduced. Also featured is an article on risk management in digital preservation, with the spotlight on the final results of Planets and the future directions in digital preservation. A series of case studies illustrates the use of Planets in archives and libraries, and the newsletter contains a news round up and a list of Planets’ publications and presentations at events.*
http://www.planets-project.eu/docs/newsletters/Planetarium10_Planets_Newsletter_May2010_2.pdf

Aggregating Web Resources
Michael Witt
American Libraries, May 27, 2010

The Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange specification defines a set of new standards for describing and exchanging aggregations of web resources. This presents an exciting opportunity to revisit how digital libraries are provisioned. ORE and its concept of aggregation, that a set of digital objects of different types and from different locations on the web can be described and exposed together as a single, compound entity as Witt explains, could present the next major disruptive technology for librarians tasked with developing and managing digital collections.*
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/ore

We’re laggards when it comes to new digital economy, despite doing many things right
David Crane
The Hill Times, May 24, 2010

There was an understandable level of frustration at this year’s Canada 3.0 conference in Stratford, Ontario, where creativity is a vital part of the local economy. Canada 3.0 is a university-business-led grassroots movement that’s campaigning to vault the country into a leading position in matters of digitization. While many participants welcomed the release of the government consultation paper – Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage - they also voiced frustration over the considerable time the government has taken to produce the consultation paper, and questioned how much longer it will take to flesh out and implement a clear digital strategy for Canada.*

My seven questions for Heritage Minister Moore on copyright
Michael Geist
The Hill Times, May 24, 2010

Canadian Heritage Minister James may have led the charge to a return to digital lock provisions in copyright reform and while he has declined to comment on the substance of an impending bill, the approach raises difficult questions. Thousands of Canadians have expressed concern over the government’s plans, as there have been mounting fears that the results from last summer’s copyright consultation could be shelved in favour of a repeat of the highly-criticized Bill C-61. The primacy of digital locks was the foundational principle behind C-61. Geist warns that when a digital lock is used to “control copying, access, or stifle competition, the lock supersedes virtually all other rights.”*

The End of Braille?
Brooke Gladstone
On the Media, May 21, 2010

Fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million legally blind Americans now read Braille, down from around half in the 1950s. Reporter Rachel Aviv wrote about the dying language earlier this year in The New York Times Magazine.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/05/21/05

A field trip to the Internet Archive
Rob Pegoraro
The Washington Post, May 18, 2010

Many people think of the Internet Archive only as the home of the Wayback Machine, the site that lets one see what pages looked like years ago. But the archive is also of the real world, a nonprofit organization that makes its home in a former church. Pegoraro discusses the tour Archive founder Brewster Kahle provided him and the conversation he had with him about its work - an increasing amount of which has little to do with old Web pages.*
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/05/a_field_trip_to_the_internet_a.html

Knowledge = Information in Context: on the Importance of Semantic Contextualization in Europeana
Stefan Gradmann
Europeana White Paper 1, April 2010

Europeana is much more than a machine for mechanical accumulation of object representations but that one of its main characteristics should be to enable the generation of knowledge pertaining to cultural artifacts. The rest of the paper is about the implications of this initial statement in terms of information science, on the way we technically prepare to implement the necessary data structures and functionality and on the novel functionality Europeana will offer based on these elements and which go well beyond the 'traditional' digital library
paradigm.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32110457/Europeana-White-Paper-1

RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship
Charles Henry et al
Council on Library and Information Resources, CLIR pub 147, June 2010

The Idea of Order explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transformation of research collections management. The volume comprises three reports: "Can a New Research Library be All-Digital?", "On the Cost of Keeping a Book," and "Ghostlier Demarcations." *
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub147abst.html

The 2010 report on R&D in ICT in the European Union
Geomina Turlea et al
EC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, May 2010

This report presents all the data available on ICT R&D private and public expenditures in Europe, at sector, country and company levels, and from an international perspective (benchmarking). It provides data up to 2007. The second part of the report includes a thematic analysis on ICT R&D internationalization.*
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=3239

The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition
Primary Research Group

Primary Research Group is updating its study - The Survey of Academic Libraries - and seeks participants from academic libraries in the United States and Canada. Participants are listed; data is confidential and not linked to specific institutions. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report when it is published. The survey is open through June 28.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZCVNBYK

Aspects juridiques de la publication scientifique : Guide pratique à l'attention des membres de la communauté universitaire
Laurence Thys
Conseil Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française, 2009

Depuis plusieurs années, les universités et académies universitaires de la Communauté française de Belgique sont engagées dans une politique dynamique en faveur de l’Open access. Il est apparu que la communauté universitaire était peu sensibilisée aux aspects de propriété intellectuelle de la publication scientifique, généralement parce qu’elle en méconnait soit les principes légaux, soit les enjeux. Ce guide a été rédigé pour donner aux chercheurs un aperçu des droits qui sont susceptibles de protéger une oeuvre en espérant qu'alors, ils n’y renonceront plus systématiquement au profit des éditeurs.
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/4277

SCONUL Shared Services: Business Case
Society of College, National and University Libraries [UK], 2009

SCONUL obtained funding from HEFCE to undertake a Shared Services feasibility study into the Library Management Service (LMS) and related systems landscape in UK Higher Education. The study has provided an opportunity to review the role that shared services might play in individual library strategic plans and in enhancing library services across the UK HE sector.*
http://helibtech.com/Shared+Services

EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
2010 LIBER Annual Conference
Aarhus, Denmark, June 29 – July 2, 2010

Registration is open for the 2010 LIBER Annual Conference. The deadline for early registration is 30 April 2010. The joint hosts are Aarhus University and the State and University Library of Denmark. Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information, USA), Heather Morrison (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Lee Dirks (Microsoft), Jon Orwant (Google), and Brian Lavoie (OCLC) will provide key addresses.
http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/liber2010/liber-2010

*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source