From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. [...]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
Filed by Gary Price on February 27, 2011
Filed Under: Archives, Digitized Archives & Libraries, History
"Full-Text Search Capability Not Without Problems, Scholars Say"
Filed by Gary Price on February 27, 2011
by Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois News Bureau From the Article: The perception that plugging a few keywords into Google will yield a universe of relevant information is somewhat mistaken, say Kathryn LaBarre and Carol L. Tilley, professors of library and information science at Illinois. [Our emphasis] “There’s a lot of excitement about the availability [...]
Filed Under: Info Literacy & Search, Info Organization and Cataloging, Metadata
Research Paper: "Who Says What to Whom on Twitter"
Filed by Gary Price on February 27, 2011
The paper was written by Shaomei Wu, Cornell University; Jake M. Hofman, Yahoo! Research; Winter A. Mason, Yahoo! Research; Duncan J. Watts, Yahoo! Research and will be presented at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’11) at the end of March. From the Abstract: We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in [...]
Filed Under: Research, Social Media
