• Jisc Report Looks at How to Mitigate Digital Carbon Footprints

Information Today reports that, “Jisc released a report, “Exploring Digital Carbon Footprints,” which “examines the impact of digital technology on the environment and offers practical steps that colleges and universities can take on their journey towards carbon net zero.” It was written by Scott Stonham, an independent technology analyst, and is designed to support IT and tech leaders when making decisions…”

• Brown Library, Together with Emory University, Releases Report on Digital Scholarly Publishing: “Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community”

According to infoDOCKET “In spring 2021, Brown University Library and Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry co-hosted a summit on multimodal digital monographs – born-digital publications that offer unique capabilities beyond conventional formats…
The resulting report, Multimodal Digital Publications: Content, Collaboration, Community, presents the summit findings — on matters of cross-institutional collaboration, community engagement, professional development, open access, peer review, metadata and discoverability, preservation, sustainability, and diversity, equity, and inclusion

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• National Archives Celebrates Title IX 50th Anniversary

• UArizona receives $1.18M for borderlands research and archive project

• Clarivate statement on OCLC lawsuit

• DEI in Libraries and Archives: Lessons Learned from a Reparative Description Project

• SPIE signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

• CAUL partners with Annual Reviews to pilot Subscribe to Open in 2022

• Kuwait University selects Sierra for their Central and Medical Libraries