Ford, Mellon, and MacArthur Foundations transfer sole ownership of historic Ebony and Jet Photo Archive to Getty and NMAAHC

The Getty Trust commits $30 million to digitize the Johnson Publishing Company archive, which features more than 4 million prints and negatives that chronicle 20th-century Black life.

Oxford University Press migrates books to Oxford Academic and expands accessibility to academic content

Oxford University Press announced the migration of its book content to Oxford Academic—the online platform for its academic research—and, separately, announced the expansion of its agreement with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to make its content more accessible.

OSTP memo directs U.S. Federal Agencies to make research free and accessible

In an 8 page memo titled "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research",  issued on 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directed federal agencies to begin adopting policies that would make taxpayer-funded research free and accessible to the general public. 

Reimagined WorldCat.org offers an improved user experience, more ways to engage, and better connections to libraries from where people start their searches

OCLC expands web visibility subscription options to improve impact and exposure for more libraries worldwide.

IFLA and UNESCO Launch an Updated Public Library Manifesto at the 87th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)

The IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto proclaims UNESCO's belief in the public library as a living force for education, culture and information, and as an essential agent for the fostering of peace and welfare through the minds of all people.

Couranto and CCC announce deeper partnership

In recognition of the challenges around information contract management, user access and entitlements, data licensing and copyright compliance, Couranto and CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) are partnering to further advance the working knowledge related to copyright compliance through practical information solutions.

Bibliometrics, higher education, and information professionals

Writing about university research rankings may not be everyone's cup of tea, but during the pandemic, it fit international librarian Ruth Pagell to a T. Rankings are relevant to librarians because almost all of them include at least one indicator based on bibliometrics from Clarivate or Elsevier. What a great opportunity for librarians to show off their expertise with different metrics!

To be or not to be? A library or an IT house or both?

At the National Library of Finland, re-envisioning its core roles led to interesting challenges for library management. Liisa Savolainen, Deputy Director, asked "To be or not to be? A library or an IT house or both?" when speaking in Dublin during an IFLA Satellite event sponsored by the Knowledge Management section and the Digital Humanities SIG. Spoiler alert: The answer is "both".

The role of the library in enabling blended learning

At Basingstoke College of Technology in North Hampshire, U.K., librarians have become learning facilitators and students turned into digital leaders, explains Scott Hayden. Library space was redesigned to support independent, flipped and blended learning.

Experience and Publish Scientific Videos with the TIB AV-Portal

The Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB) operates an open access platform, the TIB AV-Portal, on which scientific videos such as conference recordings, simulations, animations, lectures and visualized research data can be published and viewed free of charge.

Springer Nature Joins PubHive Document Delivery Service

Publisher collaboration to showcase research about Artificial Intelligence

Brill Transforms “Historische Anthropologie” to Open Access in Collaboration with the FWF

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) have issued a statement on the metadata rights of libraries

Metadata and the metadata services that describe library collections are critical in supporting content discovery, knowledge creation, and libraries' public missions. Metadata describing library collections is not typically copyrightable, and should be considered freely shareable and reusable under most circumstances. However, some industry players restrict libraries' rights to use such metadata through contractual terms and market influence. Such restrictive activity is out of alignment with libraries' needs and public, not-for-profit/educational missions.

A tribute to librarians in pictures

The tribute is in 3 languages, authored by marie lebert and illustrated by Denis Renard

Info Pros React to OCLC's Lawsuit Against Clarivate

Brandi Scardilli, writing in Information Today's NewsBreaks, analyzed some of the tweets that have surfaced regarding the legal action OCLC has taken against Clarivate, including comments from European librarians. Is this a feud between monopolies and is this an opportunity to advocate for open cataloging metadata?