March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
From OCLC Abstracts: Titled “Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?” the pilot phase of this JISC-funded, collaborative international project began in January and will continue through the middle of 2011. Project directors are Mr. David White, Co-Manager (Development), Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL), part of the University of Oxford, and Dr. […]
March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
Look out Google Scholar. Get ready for the academic/scholarly search war to begin very very soon. We think many info industry database providers will also have an interest in a new service from Microsoft. Here’s why. Since October 2009 we’ve been covering, speaking about and paying very close attention to Microsoft Academic Search. The product […]
March 31, 2011 by fulltextreports
Is Google Stuck in ‘Perpetual Beta’? Last month, Motorola’s Xoom tablet launched on the Verizon Wireless network. Soon after, complaints began to surface that the tablet’s operating system — designed by Google — was prone to crashes when running third party applications. Experts say that while Google’s typical strategy of launching new products and then […]
March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
On the OCLC Digital Cooperative Blog Mike Teets writes that the OCLC Innovation Lab experiment that began in June, 2010 allowing users to search WorldCat directly from Twitter has ended. Users created their query and also included the #Ask4Stuff hashtag in their tweet. #Ask4Stuff will no longer be available beginning tomorrow (April 1, 2010). From […]
March 31, 2011 by fulltextreports
…the SLA Baseball Caucus announces its new website! Motto? “Hitting it out of the park for our members since 1993.”
March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
Wolfram|Alpha has made the announcement earlier today they’ve added a QR code generator to their database service. Yet another service that makes W|A a resource that should always be considered to provide answers (not links) to a variety of questions and other info needs. Each code can have up to […]
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March 31, 2011 by fulltextreports
New Study Of iPad Users Identifies Obstacles For The Daily (PDF) To attract a large number of users and generate substantial subscription revenue, The Daily—the news-based application released by News Corporation in February exclusively for Apple’s iPad™ platform—will need to overcome a few obstacles with iPad owners who consume news online. These obstacles include the […]
March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
From the Editorial: Altogether, Judge Chin argued that the agreement would grant Google a virtual legal monopoly over the online book search. That is too high a price to pay. Google’s loss means that, for now, its search results will show only snippets of text from books that are under copyright but out of print. […]
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March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
From the Canada at a Glance Web Site: Canada at a Glance presents current Canadian demographic, education, health and aging, justice, housing, income, labour market, household, economic, travel, financial, agricultural, international trade and environmental statistics. Updated yearly, this booklet is a very useful reference for those who want quick access to current Canadian statistics and […]
March 31, 2011 by Gary Price
The Houston Chronicle’s Editorial Board deserves recognition for this editorial from just about every info pro organization. Read it and make sure to save or bookmark to reread on “rainy days.” From an Editorial in the Houston Chronicle: If librarians seem distracted these days, you can’t blame them. They’re worried that they’ll lose jobs. As […]