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• University of Connecticut: UConn Archives to House Maurice Sendak Artwork

  21-02-2018 23:43 via infodocket.com
  From the University of Connecticut:
  The finished artwork for his published books, and certain manuscripts, sketches, and other related materials created by Maurice Sendak, considered the leading artist of children’s books in the 20th century, will be hosted and maintained at the University of Connecticut under an agreement approved today by UConn’s Board of Trustees.
  The Maurice Sendak Foundation will continue to own the artwork and source materials for books such as Where the W
  
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• Missouri and Kansas: “University Libraries Move Toward Workspaces, Digital Collections”

  21-02-2018 20:34 via infodocket.com
  From The Joplin Globe:
  As other college and university libraries shed print materials to make room for more modern amenities, the George A. Spiva Library at Missouri Southern State University has plenty of space, thanks to a 2001 expansion.
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  “Those resources don’t require a lot of space, so we’re putting more financial resources into electronic access and investing less into physical items,” said [James] Capeci, director of the MSSU library. “Not because we do
  
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• News Roundup (February 21, 2018)

  21-02-2018 20:14 via infodocket.com
  1. UBC (University of British Columbia) Library is Launching Project to Support Faculty in the Creation of Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
  2. Open Access: Iowa State University Joins Luminos (U. of California Press) Member Library Program
  3.  Missouri Gov. Greitens Bans Public Business On Encrypted Messaging App ‘Confide’ (via StateScoop)
  
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• Metadata: Persistent Identifiers: Results From 2017 ORCID Mandate Trial at Springer Nature

  21-02-2018 17:20 via infodocket.com
  From the ORCID Blog:
  To further support the uptake of ORCID, in 2017 Springer Nature engaged in a trial mandating ORCID identifiers for corresponding authors of primary research manuscripts at 46 journals across our portfolios.
  The trial ran from April 27 for 6 months and the mandate was applied at different stages of the manuscript processing: 14 Nature-branded research journals required iDs at acceptance, while 10 BioMed Central (BMC) and 22 Springer journals did so at initial submis
  
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• New From the Library of Congress: The Papers of President James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Digitized and Now Available From the Library of Congress

  21-02-2018 16:14 via infodocket.com
  From LC:
  The papers of President James Buchanan, who presided in the four years leading up to the Civil War, have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress, along with the papers of his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, who served as first lady in the White House. Buchanan was the nation’s only president who never married.
  The Buchanan collection includes approximately 1,600 items dating from 1825 to 1887.
  Buchanan’s papers include corres
  
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• Digital Collections: The Papers of President James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Digitized and Now Available From the Library of Congress

  21-02-2018 16:14 via infodocket.com
  From LC:
  The papers of President James Buchanan, who presided in the four years leading up to the Civil War, have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress, along with the papers of his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, who served as first lady in the White House. Buchanan was the nation’s only president who never married.
  The Buchanan collection includes approximately 1,600 items dating from 1825 to 1887.
  Buchanan’s papers include corres
  
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• ERROR

  21-02-2018 15:26 via infodocket.com
  infoDOCKET apologizes for posting this out of date item on February 21, 2018. 
  From Cornell University:
  Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, acting director of public service collections for the Library of Congress, has been named the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University. The appointment, effective Aug. 19, was made by Provost Don M. Randel.
  
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• New Article: “Text Mining 101″

  21-02-2018 15:03 via infodocket.com
  This new brief introduction to text mining (approx. 1800 words) was written by members of the OpenMinTeD project team.
  From the Article:
  What is text mining, how does it work and why is it useful? What is text mining, how does it work and why is it useful?
  The article is organized into the following sections:What Is Text Mining?
  Why Do We Need It?
  What Kind
  Of People Do Text Mining?How Is Text Mining Useful For Science?
  Wait A Minute, Text Mining, Is That How I Get Those Personalised Ads
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