October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
Direct to World Digital Library Info About National Library of Albania National Library of Albania Website (in Albanian) National Library of Albania Catalogues (in English) Source: World Digital Library @WDLorg
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
Direct to Full Text Paper (4 Pages; PDF) Authors: Jaime Teevan, Amy Karlson, Shahriyar Amini, A.J. Bernheim Brush, and John Krumm Abstract: People often search for local information (e.g., a restaurant, store, gas station, or attraction) from their mobile device. We show, via a survey of 929 mobile searchers at a large software company, that […]
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
From JISC: Open access research is now more accessible as JISC has developed a new search engine to help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK’s open access repositories. JISC has funded the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) to create an innovative new search facility which searches not just […]
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
From Nielsen Wire: Nielsen’s recent Social Media Report revealed the size of the audience and the degree of consumption across social networking platforms in the U.S., and now new research by NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey Company, further explores the reasons U.S. social media users visit these sites. Not surprisingly, the top drivers of social media use […]
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
Via the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Newsletter: Providing nearly 700,000 species, 35 million pages of scanned literature and over 600,000 photos of living creatures, the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has recently launched a new version of its free online system in response to requests from the general public, citizen scientists, educators and professional biologists around the world […]
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
This is a repost of an item we shared about a month ago. Title: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews Auhtors: Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research, and Cyndi Shein, Getty Research Institute The report provides an overview of social metadata, including an environmental scan of 76 social metadata sites and a […]
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October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
From the U. of South Carolina Libraries Web Site: Whoever said nothing is “as dead as an old newspaper” never would have made headlines as a futurist, and never could have dreamed of life in the digital age. But thanks to the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP), a project at the University of South […]
October 3, 2011 by Gary Price
All of the following apps are free. (Added to Roundup on October 5) 1. New: Bureau of Labor Statistics App (iOS and Android Apps) The free app displays real-time updates to the unemployment rate, Unemployment Insurance initial claims, the Consumer Price Index, payroll employment, average hourly earnings, the Producer Price Index, the Employment Cost Index, […]