"Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities" @ Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10/24/rethinking-data-discovery-for-libraries-and-digital-humanities/
Trois nouvelles librairies ajoutées dans le Sillon:
- Librairie - L’Eternel Retour (Paris)
- Librairie - Le Pied Š Terre (Paris)
- Librairie - Autour du Monde (Metz)
Les librairies que nous avons sélectionnées ne sont pas de simples commerces, mais des refuges pour l’esprit et l’imaginaire. Elles incarnent l’amour du livre et la passion de ceux qui les tiennent, où chaque rayon semble pensé pour éveiller la curiosité et nourrir l’âme.
Open Access: Bibliothek der Association for Computing Machinery öffnet sich
Ab Januar 2026 sollen alle Publikationen der ACM Digital Library öffentlich zugänglich sein. Das soll Wissen zugänglicher machen und Innovation fördern.
Research Library at NASA's Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday (Eric Niiler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p52#a251231p52
Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 532 nodes and 1730 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…
Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …
"The Continuing Relevance of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to Library Collections"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8614 (
"The Economics of Libraries"
https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libraries/Martorana-Rizzo/p/book/9781032364285 (erscheint im April)
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"Logo design and visual identity in academic libraries: An empirical study of chinese university websites"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103214
"In digital environments, university library websites have become key interfaces for academic service delivery an…