21 July, 2017
Universities and Libraries SMU Students Launch Venture Fund for Students The fund is set up in conjunction by entrepreneurship community Kairos Asean and SMU’s Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (IIE), and is aimed at start-ups with at least one student founder. University of Michigan Launches Self-Driving Shuttle Service The University of Michigan is trialling its own selfdriving shuttle service, taking advantage of the state’s legalization of selfdriving cars without the need for a driver inside. MIT Libraries Machine Learning Studio MIT Libraries has set up a blog site to compile and share applications of data mining, machine learning, and related techniques in the Libraries.
Provosts' Perceptions of Academic Library Value & Preferences for Communication Source: College & Research Libraries (Preprint)
An accepted manuscript submitted to the College & Research Libraries’ journal describes a large-scale study of provosts’ perceptions of academic libraries in the United States. Amongst its findings, it notes that “provosts at all types of institutions perceive use data and user satisfaction data to have only moderate impact on a funding decision”. Read the full-text PDF here. More studies conducted by about libraries: 1. ASERL Webinar: Strategies Driving the Evolution of Academic Libraries: Findings from Ithaka’s US Library Survey
Librarians Doing DH: A Team and Project-Based Approach to Digital Humanities in the Library Source: Collaborative Librarianship
This case study describes how librarians from the Claremont Colleges Library used a project and team-based system to play a role in a Digital Humanities project. The article describes considerations and issues of time
NCSU Awarded Grant to Supplement the Creation and Sharing of Digital Scholarship North Carolina State University has been awarded a $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project aims to continue the NCSU Libraries’ pioneering work with large-scale, research visualization technologies to increase the impact of academic visualization environments and the scholarship created within them.
management and manpower, and explains why they chose to use a team based set up for this project. More about Digital Humanities: 1. Beyond the One-Shot: Intensive Workshops as a Platform for Engaging the Library in Digital Humanities 2. RLUK REPORT: Research Libraries & Digital Humanities Tools 3. Spatial Information Literacy for Digital Humanities: Leveraging Geospatial Information for African American History Education
Siemens partners NTU, SP Group and ST Electronics to help Southeast Asian companies digitalise Source: Computer World Singapore
The collaboration with NTU aims to develop and showcase data-driven innovations for urban infrastructure, such as innovative mobility solutions based on self-driving vehicles, and advanced data analytics for optimising the performance of green buildings. More about Smart Nations: 1. The Rise of Smart Cities 2. Government to Partner Industry to Spark Innovation and Build Capabilities in a Smart Nation 3. What Are the 10 Key Things That Make a City Smart?
Reproducibility Librarianship Source: Collaborative Librarianship
This article asserts that reproducibility is an emerging area that is lacking in formal librarianship support. The article outlines the framework used in New York University, where a new librarian position was created, and how it
facilitated collaboration between the University and Library to bring reproducible research practices into the norm. More about Scholarly Communications: 1. Developing an Open Journals Hosting Service: A Case Study From Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
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