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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

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NewsBreaks
Happy Library Lovers Month!
by Brandi Scardilli
According to Days Of The Year, which has been documenting international holidays since 2009, February is Library Lovers Month. It makes sense--Valentine's Day is tomorrow, so people are already primed to celebrate love in all its forms. Why not extend those feelings to an institution that Pew Research Center says is favorable to 77% of U.S. adults?

Weekly News Digests
Clarivate Analytics Brings Back the Institute for Scientific Information
Clarivate Analytics announced that the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ... will be re-established in its Scientific and Academic Research group. This incarnation ... will develop bibliometric and analytical approaches by leveraging Web of Science data and patent data from the Derwent World Patent Index.
The Library of Congress Promotes Free-to-Use Content Sets
The Library of Congress (LC) rolled out Free to Use and Reuse Sets to help improve the visibility and availability of public domain and rights-clear content. This collection features themed sets of materials, such as travel posters, presidential portraits, and Civil War drawings. ...
SAGE Studies Educational Video Usage
SAGE published a white paper, "Assessing the Impact of Educational Video on Student Engagement, Critical Thinking and Learning: The Current State of Play," which explores the following questions. ...
eLife Becomes a Member of NPRC (Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium)
eLife, which receives a substantial number of neuroscience-related submissions, joined NPRC (Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium), an alliance of journal publishers that is working to reduce the time and effort involved in the peer review process of publishing neuroscience research.
Presidential Budget Request for FY2019 Still Gives IMLS Short Shrift
Kathryn K. Matthew, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), released a statement on the president's proposed FY2019 budget. He released a budget request to Congress on Feb. 12 that calls for the "orderly closure" of IMLS.
Semantic Enrichment and the Information Manager: Turning Content into Insight
"Information managers must balance the needs of multiple internal constituencies to support information discovery and manage subscription usage and budgets," according to Copyright Clearance Center's new white paper. "The challenge is that more than 90% of organizational data is unstructured, as is nearly all the peer-reviewed scientific research." Download the white paper to find out how semantic enrichment can help structure that data.

NewsLink Spotlight
Oscar Nominees Through a Librarian Lens
by Brandi Scardilli
The next Oscars ceremony is coming up on March 4, so let's take a look at this year's Best Picture nominees and how they have been interpreted to relate to what's currently going on in the world.

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Bookshelf
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50


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Editor: Brandi Scardilli
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