NEWS
TWENTY academics making up the Edito- rial and Advisory Boards of the European Law Journal have resigned from their positions following a year of negotiations with the publisher, Wiley.
Agreement over how to appoint editors was reached but not formalised. A blog post signed by former editors and board members said: “We thought and still think that the intellectual project of the ELJ is ‘owned’ by the academic community of editors, authors, reviewers and readers.” A Wiley spokeswoman told The Times Educational Supplement it was “saddened by the decision”.
Israel tops list of
#1Lib1Ref 2020 ISRAELI librarians made 4,700 edits to Wikipedia pages in the three-week #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian One Reference) editathon putting the Hebrew language edit count ahead of the Serbian 4,100 edits and French librarians’ 2,750. English was fourth with 2,050 edits. Israel’s National Library had teamed up with Wikimedia-Israel with 76 Israeli librarians participating, mostly from the National Library of Israel. Director of Israel’s National Library Oren Weinberg said: “The fact that hundreds of millions of surfers around the world rely on, study and use Wikipedia requires us — as those who have access to information and sources — to help make it a deep, seri- ous and reliable source of knowledge.”
Newton work found in Corsica
A CORSICAN library has uncovered a rare first-edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philoso- phiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Director of conservation at the Fesch public library Vannina Schirin- sky-Schikhmatoff discovered the 17th Century manuscript in the library’s main room, “hidden in the upper shelves”. In 2016 another first edition sold for $3.7m.
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Resignations over journal ownership New build shows continued faith in library services
WARWICKSHIRE Libraries is set to build a brand-new library for the people of Nuneaton.
The move is part of Warwickshire’s continued investment in libraries and library services in the face of austerity measures imposed on local authorities over the last decade. The new library will be an anchor building for a major regeneration project in the town, with the council set to spend around £19.5m on developing the area. Ayub Khan, Head of Face to Face Ser- vices for Warwickshire County Council, said the regeneration project highlights Warwikshire’s commitment to library services, saying: “Warwickshire Coun- ty Council has shown real commitment to its library service in terms of both routine spending and money for new projects.”
Ayub points to other capital spending in the county that has seen new-builds and refurbishments take place across the library network. He said: “We are about to build our third new library since the recession (Alcester, Southam and now Whitnash), and plans for the new Nuneaton Library – part of a wider town centre regeneration scheme – are taking shape.
“[Nuneaton] is an ambitious project to replace the existing 50-year-old library with a new, state-of-the-art building accommodating the library, a business centre and cafe, plus meeting rooms, Registration Service and event space. The total cost – more than £19 million – has already been approved by the County Council’s Cabinet and Full Council sign- off in December.”
Ayub wants library investment to be celebrated, adding: “Warwickshire Libraries had to find savings of over £2m several years ago, and operating budgets have been tight ever since – but County Councillors have always shown faith in the service and supported its progress. I think this is for a variety of very good reasons which we can all use to argue our case.
“Research shows that public libraries bring wider benefits to local society, par- ticularly in terms of health and wellbe- ing. They also help people to gain knowl- edge and new skills and support the local economy.
“They welcome all-comers and all ages and enrich lives. In so doing, they can help other local services to access an enviably broad customer base, including the ‘hard-to-reach’.”
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