Popular Links : every Librarian should read

 

Popular Links : every Librarian should read

1. University copying books for teaching is not copyright violation: Delhi HC 
2. Open-access plan draws online protest
3. Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?
4. Norway's petabyte plan: Store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive
5. University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions
6. Technology hasn’t killed public libraries – it’s inspired them to transform and stay relevant
7. EU passes controversial copyright law that could hit the likes of Google and Facebook
8. Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
9. Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
10. The ancient library where the books are under lock and key
11. The General Data Protection Regulation: What Does It Mean for Libraries Worldwide?
12. More libraries are going fine-free. That’s good for everyone.
13. Fake News Course
14. Three reasons Wikipedia needs libraries, and vice-versa
15. Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes
16. Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons
17. The Natural Enemy of the Librarian
18. How Technology Is Changing The Way Blind People Get Visual Information
19. Modern libraries: Moving from a transactional to a relational library
20. Why Wikipedia Works
21. The Link to Content in 21st-Century Libraries
22. Welcome to the Post-Text Future
23. Silicon Valley Won’t Save Books
24. How the Index Card Cataloged the World
25. Professor Stephen Hawking's PhD viewed two million times
26. The Fallacy of Open-Access Publication
27. Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'
28. 26 Facts about Libraries
29. What Are Libraries For?
30. The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
31. Creating the Catalog, Before and After FRBR
32. In the ‘Fake News’ Era, Americans Increasingly Value Libraries
33. German universities plan for life without Elsevier
34. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
35. This Is the Future of Libraries in the Digital Age
36. Explorations of a Very-large-screen Digital Library Interface
37. The War on the Freedom of Information Act
38. Why Kids Need Data Literacy, and How You Can Teach It
39. Getting serious about open access discovery—Is open access getting too big to ignore?
40. University of Missouri to push cheaper textbook plan
41. Open access campaigners toughen stance towards publishers
42. How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing
43. Dewey Decimal System
44. Book publishing in the digital age
45. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources
46. No ink required: paper can be printed with light
47. Knowledge Management – Automated Content Generation and Curation
48. How to Measure Impact
49. Libraries are dying – but it’s not about the books
50. Smartphones Can't Replace Libraries

credit to  https://librarycognizance.blogspot.com/2019/01/50-popular-links-every-librarian-should.html

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One Librarian, one reference #1Lib1Ref 2020

In 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation is launching the fifth edition of One Librarian One Reference (#1Lib1Ref) which will be held from 15^th of January to the 5^th of February 2020!

This event invites librarians from all over the world to add a reference to the article of their choice on the online encyclopedia. Indeed, the Wikimedia Foundation estimates that if each librarian spent 15 minutes to add a source to an article with a " reference needed" banner, it would be possible to improve the reliability of 350,000 articles.

Why should Librarians get involved?

• Because you will improve the quality of articles and their reliability on Wikipedia, and so improve access to information for library users.
• Because you will contribute to the discovery of books, authors sometimes little known in specific fields.
• Because this is an occasion for your users to learn about references and sources and encourage them to get themselves involved in Wikipedia.

Other gaps to fill?

Libraries all around the world have already been involved in #1Lib1Ref, and many (D.B. Weldon Library, St.Cloud State University Library, Waterloo Library, Penn State University Libraries) have also become involved in other wiki projects, particularly to promote the diversity of content on Wikipedia.

This includes the Gender Gap project (to promote female contents on Wikipedia), the representation of LGBT+ communities but also the development of content related to non-Western communities. 

To promote knowledge sharing and the representation of different cultures and opinions, we are encouraging you to contribute!
 

What are the first steps?

Librarians can be individually involved in adding references, but you can also set up workshops or events on the subject to raise awareness and teach users how to source articles!

To edit references on Wikipedia yourself, you will find below the first necessary steps (also available here)

Step 1: Create a Wikipedia account in the language of your choice if you do not already have one.

Step 2: Select an article.

Step 3: Consult the footnotes with references and see if you can add a source that would cross-reference this or that information.

Step 4: Add your reference! (Here, some instructions to add a reference).

To organise an event with your community, feel free to consult this page with the organisation guide!

source
The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Refhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Help
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Help

One Librarian, one reference #1Lib1Ref 2020
https://www.ifla.org/node/92696


One Librarian, one reference #1Lib1Ref 2020
Wikipedia melancarkan kempen 2020 # 1Lib1Ref dengan pustakawan
https://tinyurl.com/tqmsjlt
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