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Weekly News Digest
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November 21, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Sage Adds a Social Justice-Focused Film Distribution Company to Its Portfolio
Sage announced that it “has acquired GOOD DOCS LLC, a film distribution company promoting social justice through powerful documentaries. This partnership adds over 370 films to Sage’s library of video content, providing educational resources and promoting critical thinking on important societal issues.” GOOD DOCS becomes a subsidiary of Sage, and its content will be integrated into Sage Video collections.“GOOD DOCS provides a remarkable library of documentary film content to the educational market, which we know instructors, students, and academic librarians value very highly,” says Michael Carmichael, Sage’s senior director. “In GOOD DOCS, we also have found a key partner that promotes anti-racism, social justice, and equity through its powerful, thought-provoking films, which aligns very closely with the mission of Sage Video too. We cannot wait to work with the GOOD DOCS team.” For more information, read the press release.
AM Releases the First Module of Its American Committee on Africa Collection
AM published Module I of its new primary source archive, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which is a comprehensive resource for researching African liberation movements in the mid-to-late 20th century during the first decades of ACOA’s work. “Established in 1953 by George M. Houser, the ACOA operated out of New York with a mission to support African self-determination and educate the American public on African affairs,” AM states. The collection offers “a wealth of rare materials that highlight the ACOA’s involvement in liberation movements, from campaigning for economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa, to advocating for independence movements across the African continent. Students, researchers, and educators will gain access to documents that bridge African liberation movements and US Civil Rights struggles, underscoring a critical period of social change, anti-colonialism, and Cold War politics.”For more information, read the news item.
Exact Editions Adds Institutional Subscriptions to Jacobin and Catalyst
Exact Editions is now offering institutional subscriptions to Jacobin, “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.” The latest issue of the magazine “analyses the potential economic policy of a second Trump term, how working-class identity politics are used by the right, as well as a breakdown of JD Vance and Project 2025.”Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a peer-reviewed academic journal that is a sister publication to Jacobin, is also now available via Exact Editions’ institutional subscription. It “aims to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target, and compliments Jacobin’s ardent examination of left-wing ideology.” For more information, read the press release.
ULC Rolls Out the 2024 Library Insights Survey Report
The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) shared the following:In the summer of 2024, [ULC] asked its 187 member libraries across the U.S. and Canada to complete the second-annual Library Insights Survey (LIS), gathering data from the 2023 calendar year to build on insights from 2019-2022. Today, ULC releases the latest urban library data and trends in the 2024 Library Insights Report. ULC’s annual Library Insights Survey captures trends in patron engagement with library programs and services. … ‘This year’s data demonstrates a continued strong rebound with impressive growth in overall library usage and an unmistakable shift in how patrons use and regard the library as a vital third place,’ said Brooks Rainwater, President and CEO of [ULC]. ‘Increasing visits, higher program attendance and demand for spaces like meeting and study rooms underscore the library’s value as a flexible, inclusive community space.’ For more information, read the press release.
hoopla Digital Studies How Patrons Respond to Digital Library Services
hoopla Digital published “new data on how patrons interact with and feel about digital library services and found patrons want more instant access to content.”The press release continues, “The survey, conducted among 1,000 U.S. library cardholders who have used a digital library service (including eBooks, audiobooks, music, movies, TV, comics and manga) within the past 12 months, explored library patrons’ sentiment, behaviors and pain points in finding digital content at their local libraries. Altogether, the results show content discoverability and building a collection optimized for modern patrons’ digital needs is critical for libraries.” For more information, read the press release.
Thomson Reuters Expands Partnership With Oracle for Better E-Invoicing
Thomson Reuters “is enabling turnkey integration with ONESOURCE Pagero and Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Designed to transform the e-invoicing landscape, and supported by early partners like Accenture, this integration aims to help streamline e-invoicing processes, particularly in countries with stringent mandates.” The company notes, “For multinational organizations, e-invoicing is already mandatory or becoming so in jurisdictions across Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia. U.S. companies that implement e-invoicing now will be better positioned for cross-border trade, reducing the likelihood of costly penalties from doing business with international partners already following e-invoicing mandates. This collaboration aims to deliver enhanced value to customers, allowing for compliance while improving operational efficiency.”For more information, read the press release.
Library of Congress Gets an Archive of Burt Bacharach's Personal Papers
The Library of Congress (LC) acquired the papers—plus photographs, letters and telegrams, passports, and more—of the late venerated songwriter Burt Bacharach as a gift from his wife, giving the institution its first collection from a Gershwin Prize for Popular Song winner. “Bacharach’s songs are best known for influencing popular music starting in the late 1950s,” the LC says. “Bacharach was best known for his songwriting scores for various films and popular artists such as ‘Alfie,’ ‘Arthur’s Theme,’ ‘Close To You,’ ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose,’ ‘I Say a Little Prayer,’ ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,’ ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,’ ‘This Guy’s in Love with You’ and ‘What the World Needs Now is Love’ to name a few. His work is recognized with three Academy Awards and eight Grammy Awards, including the 2008 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.”For more information, read the press release.
The MIT Press Looks at How to Move Forward With OA Policies
The MIT Press published “comprehensive report that addresses how open access policies shape research and what is needed to maximize their positive impact on the research ecosystem.”“Access to Science & Scholarship 2024: Building an Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy” comes from a National Science Foundation-funded workshop held in September. “While open access aims to democratize knowledge, its implementation has been a factor in the consolidation of the academic publishing industry, an explosion in published articles with inconsistent review and quality control, and new costs that may be hard for researchers and universities to bear, with less affluent schools and regions facing the greatest risk. The workshop examined how open access and other open science policies may affect research and researchers in the future, how to measure their impact, and how to address emerging challenges,” the MIT Press shares. For more information, read the press release.
Law Library of Congress Examines Biosafety and Biosecurity in the G20 Nations
In Custodia Legis, the Law Library of Congress’ blog, announced the following:A new report comparing biosecurity laws is now available on the Law Library of Congress website. The report examines how Group of Twenty (G20) nations define ‘biosafety,’ ‘biosecurity,’ and related terms in legislation, codes, regulations, and guidelines. According to the report’s comparative summary, G20 nations have multiple approaches for defining biosecurity-related legal terms. … The report lists key multilateral treaties involving biosafety and biosecurity and identifies which G20 nations are signatories to specific treaties. For more information, read the blog post.
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