Weekly News Roundup: May 15-21, 2016

May 22, 2016

Collections

Addressing the soaring cost of scholarly journals

Clio and Climate: On Saving and Researching a Climate History Archive

Ottawa students assemble essential library for Attawapiskat

Retro video games invade space at university libraries

SSRN—the leading social science and humanities repository and online community—joins Elsevier

Open Government / Access to Information

No peeking! Government records censored with Scotch tape, paper

The Open Data Delusion

Policy

Canada’s Copyright Lobby Revolving Door Raises Fairness Concerns Ahead of 2017 Review

Focus: Data doesn’t have borders

House of Commons Fast Tracks Copyright Bill To Implement Marrakesh Treaty

Privacy

Canada’s Privacy Czar: ‘Sometimes the Government Goes Too Far’

Google fights French ‘right to be forgotten’ order

The Profession

Extreme Librarian: Margaret Houghton, One of Hamilton’s Most Valiant Civic Defenders

GOP ekes out win on Library of Congress’ immigration terms

Library and Information Week, May 23-29 (Australia)

The Making of RDA

Next thing to go is books – The crisis in public libraries in rural Nova Scotia

Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) Librarians Receive Two Awards from ALA

Wrong & Silly: U.S. Congress Needs to Stay Out of Library of Congress Subject Headings

Research

Literacy and numeracy among off-reserve First Nations people and Métis: Do higher skill levels improve labour market outcomes?

Tendances et innovations dans la diffusion de la recherche

Trends and Innovations in Research Dissemination

Services

Sharp Dressed, Well Read: This Philly Library Lets Job Hunters Borrow Ties

UX Reality Check: 14 Hard Truths About Users

Spaces

La bibliothèque d’Halifax remporte un autre prix d’architecture

Halifax Central Library architects win Governor General architecture medal

New Ottawa library should go where people live, work, shop, consultation told

Première bibliothèque de conception net zéro au Canada

Public-sector design has to strike the right ‘Tone’, says president of Architects Association of Ontario

Statistics / Measurement

Accessing digital historical census boundaries just got a whole lot easier!

Our Librarian in Residence did the math: Find how much money you can save by using your local library

The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2015

Technology

Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years

CBC’s Ideas and U of T’s Munk School: innovation and privacy in the age of Big Data

Library Systems Report 2016

Beyond digital immigrants? Rethinking the role of parents in a digital age