Digital Art: July and August’s Oil Paintings and Pastel Drawings

In July and August, I transformed photos into oil paintings and pastel drawings using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size download images (typically 8 x 10 in. or 8 x 12 in.) and descriptions of the processing steps involved are freely available on Flickr. The images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Digital Oil Painting of the Arrow River

Digital Pastel Drawing of the Yukon River

Digital Pastel Drawing of Rain at Sunset in Coconino National Forest

Digital Oil Painting of the Corbiere Lighthouse in Moonlight

Digital Oil Painting of Echo Cliffs

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NCSU Libraries Fellow, 2019-2021 at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting a NCSU Libraries Fellow, 2019-2021.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program provides the launching pad for your career in a leading research library. As a Fellow you will experience the rewards of working with a diverse clientele, including outstanding faculty and students in nationally ranked academic programs. You will gain experience in a highly collaborative work environment with access to key decision makers throughout the organization. You will also develop expertise in a functional area of academic librarianship while contributing meaningfully to an innovative initiative of strategic importance. In addition to a competitive salary, the Libraries provides Fellows a generous professional development stipend.

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"Monographs on the Move?: A View on ‘Decoupling’ and Other Prospects"

Andrew Lockett has published "Monographs on the Move?: A View on 'Decoupling' and Other Prospects" in Insights.

Here's an excerpt:

In the context of the recent debate about the movement towards a monographs mandate for the UK, this opinion piece considers the logic of ‘decoupling’ that underlies it. It also looks at the real opportunities to improve on the current extraordinarily durable high-price system for publishing long-form research. Thinking around decoupled monograph publishing has positioned academic authors as the individual consumers of diverse publishing services (a wide array of which are fast emerging) in the face of significant scholarly caution. Furthermore, a danger of renewed market dominance by price-makers in an open access environment remains, with the risk of inequitable outcomes that may mirror problems that have arisen in journals. Opportunities may also arise for new local initiatives, especially collective and community-based publishing, with academic libraries likely to be in the middle of a fast-changing and contested environment for publishing monographs.

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Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian at Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is recruiting a Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian is responsible for providing expertise and leadership in development, implementation, and assessment of digital collections and metadata systems, policies, and procedures to support discovery, access, management, and preservation of Bryn Mawr and Tri-College collections. The position plays a key role in supporting the implementation, administration, and enhancement of Islandora, the newly selected platform to host and preserve Tri-Co digital assets.

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"The Open Access Citation Advantage: Does It Exist and What Does It Mean for Libraries?"

Colby Lil Lewis has published "The Open Access Citation Advantage: Does It Exist and What Does It Mean for Libraries?" in Information Technology and Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

The last literature review of research on the existence of an Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) was published in 2011 by Philip M. Davis and William H. Walters. This paper reexamines the conclusions reached by Davis and Walters by providing a critical review of OACA literature that has been published 2011, and explores how increases in OA publication trends could serve as a leveraging tool for libraries against the high costs of journal subscriptions.

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Biill Changes Will “Foster a Robust Public Domain”: "Public Knowledge Welcomes House Passage of Revised Music Modernization Act"

https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-welcomes-house-passage-of-revised-music-modernization-act

See also: "Public Knowledge Welcomes Senate Passage of Revised Music Modernization Act"

https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-welcomes-senate-passage-of-revised-music-modernization-act

Research Data Management Librarian at University of Houston

The University of Houston is recruiting a Research Data Management Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Research Data Management Librarian will lead the planning, implementation, and assessment of research data management services. Such services may include instruction, consultations, and partnerships with faculty and researchers on data management plans, data management tools and strategies, and metadata standards. Reporting to the Head of Liaison Services within the University Libraries, this position is part of the Liaison Services Department and will collaborate with subject librarians to integrate data management best practices across disciplines, in research labs, and research centers.

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"’Publication Favela’ or Bibliodiversity? Open Access Publishing Viewed from a European Perspective"

Pierre Mounier has published "'Publication Favela' or Bibliodiversity? Open Access Publishing Viewed from a European Perspective" in Learned Publishing.

Here's an excerpt:

As a future infrastructure to support open scholarly communication across Europe, OPERAS aims to coordinate a range of publishers and service providers to offer researchers and societies a fully functional web of services to cover the entire research lifecycle.

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Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is recruiting a Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The incumbent will serve a leading role in developing and executing a research reproducibility support program across disciplines in addition to supporting critical duties in the Libraries’ evolving Research Data Management services portfolio, partnering with colleagues across library departments (Data Services, Science, Digital Scholarship Services, Reference and Instruction Services, etc.) to offer research reproducibility support for faculty, students, and staff in the form of in-depth consultations, workshops, courses, and other targeted outreach and development initiatives.

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"Embracing Change: The MIT Press and the Future of University-based Publishing"

Amy Brand has published "Embracing Change: The MIT Press and the Future of University-based Publishing" in Learned Publishing.

Here's an excerpt:

This article provides a high-level overview of current strategic priorities and objectives at the MIT Press, focused mainly on the book side of the house.

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Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology at University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The AUL for Digital Initiatives will develop and lead Library initiatives that rapidly increase the digitization of the Library's collections, enhance discovery, delivery, accessibility, and usability of resources within and beyond our collections, and, together with the AUL for Scholarly Resources, ensure preservation of our digitized collections. The AUL will partner with fellow members of the Library’s Leadership Team, Library staff, faculty, students, campus units, the California Digital Library, our sister UC campuses, and others.

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Assistant/Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library at University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside is recruiting an Assistant/Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsibilities: Under the general direction of the University Librarian, the AUL for the Digital Library:

  • Provide vision, strategic direction, leadership, and management for the Digital Library, which includes Cyberinfrastructure/Library Information Technology Solutions, Digital Library Initiatives, and Digitization Services;
  • Provide strategic leadership and management for the planning, design, implementation, and operation of technology services, systems, and infrastructure for the UCR Library, which includes but is not limited to the library online catalog and component parts; web and access systems, digitization lab software; and the core server, database, storage, backup and web infrastructure;
  • Provide strategic leadership and management for advancing digital initiatives and information technology services through rapid identification, assessment, and adoption of new technologies and methodologies in support of the Library’s mission to support the teaching, learning, and research mission of the university;

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"Facilitating and Improving Environmental Research Data Repository Interoperability"

Corinna Gries et al. have published "Facilitating and Improving Environmental Research Data Repository Interoperability" in Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Environmental research data repositories provide much needed services for data preservation and data dissemination to diverse communities with domain specific or programmatic data needs and standards. Due to independent development these repositories serve their communities well, but were developed with different technologies, data models and using different ontologies. Hence, the effectiveness and efficiency of these services can be vastly improved if repositories work together adhering to a shared community platform that focuses on the implementation of agreed upon standards and best practices for curation and dissemination of data. Such a community platform drives forward the convergence of technologies and practices that will advance cross-domain interoperability. It will also facilitate contributions from investigators through standardized and streamlined workflows and provide increased visibility for the role of data managers and the curation services provided by data repositories, beyond preservation infrastructure. Ten specific suggestions for such standardizations are outlined without any suggestions for priority or technical implementation. Although the recommendations are for repositories to implement, they have been chosen specifically with the data provider/data curator and synthesis scientist in mind.

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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation

ARL has released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation.

Here's an excerpt:

This Code was made by and for the software preservation community, with the help of legal and technical experts. It provides librarians, archivists, curators, and others who work to preserve software with a tool to guide their reasoning about when and how to employ fair use, in the most common situations they currently face. It does not provide shortcuts in the form of prescriptive "guidelines" or rules of thumb. Nor does it seek to address all the possible situations in which software preservation professionals might employ fair use, now or in the future.

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