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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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Climbing Into the Future at Muncie Public Library
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Every library innovates in its own way based on its resources, patron demographics, and funding. At the ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition, these projects are celebrated during an awards ceremony. Information Today, Inc. is one of the companies sponsoring an award, and this year, it went to an initiative that promotes gamified STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) learning for young patrons.
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OCLC Commissions Report on Library Funding Support
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OCLC is partnering with the Public Library Association (PLA) and the ALA Office for Library Advocacy to update OCLC's 2008 report, "From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America."
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Atypon Hosts OA Earth and Space Science Preprints
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The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon will join forces to create the Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), an open community server for preprints and conference presentations, including posters and related multimedia.
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JoVE Science Education Adds Laboratory Videos
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JoVE launched Lab Safety and Lab Animal Research Collections as part of its Biology Series and expanded its Chemistry Series in JoVE Science Education, a video library of easy-to-understand demonstrations.
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Accessible Archives Joins COUNTER
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Accessible Archives, Inc. announced that it has joined COUNTER as a full member and will become fully compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5. ...
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eLife and CKF Develop Open Source Submissions Platform
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eLife teamed up with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF) to build a fast, user-driven, open source submission and peer review platform.
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SAGE Campus Begins Offering Data Science Courses
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by Marydee Ojala
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SAGE launched a new educational endeavor in September 2017, offering online data science courses aimed at social science researchers. Called SAGE Campus, it will kick off with five courses. ... The courses run for 4 weeks, and students have access to them for an additional 2 months. They are interactive and practical, offering more than a series of video lectures and readings.
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If you are interested in sponsoring the NewsLink newsletter throughout the year, please contact account executive LaShawn Fugate for details: lashawn@infotoday.com.
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