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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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| Why It's So Hard to Get Mickey Mouse Into the Public Domain |
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by George H. Pike
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| The Walt Disney Co. has been heavily advertising the 90th birthday of Mickey Mouse since mid-2018. Well, happy birthday, Mickey! Mickey Mouse has a fair amount of significance in copyright law in that he sometimes gets the blame for the continuing extension of the terms of a copyright. |
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| YouTube Aims to Curtail Misinformation on Its Platform |
| The YouTube team posted on its blog that it has made hundreds of changes to its recommendations system in the past year, including recommending videos on a wider set of topics. |
| The FOLIO Aster Release Updates and Improves Its Open Source LSP |
| The FOLIO project announced the FOLIO Aster Release, the first in a series of named releases that is designed to clarify the features and functionality of its open source library services platform (LSP) and ensure it adheres to accessibility guidelines. |
| HighWire and Cenveo Publisher Services Join Forces for Workflow Management |
| HighWire partnered with Cenveo Publisher Services to provide a one-stop workflow solution to academic publishers. |
| The Egyptian Knowledge Bank Taps Clarivate Analytics Tool to Manage the Country’s Research |
| Clarivate Analytics and the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) will use Clarivate Analytics' Converis as a way to implement a national research management system. |
| ProQuest Rolls Out the ProQuest One Academic Research and Teaching Product |
| ProQuest introduced ProQuest One Academic, the first in a series of solutions to help libraries serve their learning and research mandates faster and more powerfully. |
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| The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| In a Campus Technology article from Dec. 12, 2018, Dian Schaffhauser reports that according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, "library collections in higher education now contain more digital items than physical." Let's take a look at what academic library staffers have to say about the state of ebooks in their libraries today. |
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How to Maintain Library Staff Tech Competency (2:27) Hamilton Public Library chief librarian/CEO Paul Takala discusses strategies to keep library staff equipped for a rapidly changing future in this clip from his presentation at Computers in Libraries 2019.
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| ITI Blogs |
If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader: ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide. ILI365/InfoToday Europe Blog – infotoday.eu – news and ideas for, and by, innovative info pros from around the world, throughout the year. Streaming Media Blog – www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog – the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem, from glass to glass. |
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This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc. Editor: Brandi Scardilli Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com |
