Via the U.S. Census: Summary profiles for geographic areas have been updated with the most recent information from frequently requested statistics from various Census Bureau programs including the 2010 Census, 2010 American Community Survey and 2007 Survey of Business Owners. These easy to access and easy to use tables are now available for the nation, [...]
Acquisitions: Yale’s Beinecke Library Acquires Eugene O’Neill’s “Lost” Play
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From the Yale Library: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired Eugene O’Neill’s “lost” one-act play, “Exorcism” (1919). The play, along with a facsimile of the typescript, will be published in a cloth edition by Yale University Press in February 2012, and will feature an introduction by the noted American [...]
ARL Announces 2011-2012 Board of Directors
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From an ARL News Release Washington, DC—Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, Johns Hopkins University, began a one-year term as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on October 13, 2011, during the ARL Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. He succeeds Carol A. Mandel, Dean of the Division of Libraries, New [...]
Greater Western Library Alliance Strongly Supports ARL’s Position On Recent USGPO Decisions
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From a Web Post: The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) joins the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in advocating for the reversal of several recent decisions regarding the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). GWLA members emphatically believe that the future of the FDLP lies in collaborative projects, including shared and multi-state regionals, [...]
Letter: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Strongly Supports ARL’s Position on Recent GPO Decisions
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ASERL Strongly Supports ARL’s Position on Recent GPO Decisions (1 page; PDF) From the Letter: ASERL members support free and open public access to information contained in FDLP collections. ASERL believes that the future of the FDLP lies in collaborative projects, including shared and multi-state Regionals and new models for digitization and preservation, such as [...]
Reference: New Statistical Brief from U.S. Census: Poverty: 2009 and 2010
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New from the U.S. Census. This brief, based on the 2009 and 2010 American Community Survey results, compares poverty rates for the nation, states and large metropolitan statistical areas. The report also summarizes the distributions of income-to-poverty ratios for states and the District of Columbia. Direct to Full Text: Poverty: 2009 and 2010 (7 pages; [...]
Debuts Friday: Digitization: "Ann Arbor Library Set to Publish 'Old News'"
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From the Ann Arbor Chronicle: On Friday, the public will get online access to 18,000 articles, 3,000 photos, and an index with over 160,000 names – the initial phase of a massive digitization of The Ann Arbor News archives being undertaken by the library.[Clip] Andrew MacLaren – one of the librarians who’s been working on [...]
New From the C-SPAN Video Library: MP3 Audio Files Available for All Programs
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Yet another new service (this one is low cost) from the award winning, essential, and wonderful (yes, we like it a LOT) C-SPAN Video Library. From the Video Library Blog: The C-SPAN Video Library is now offering MP3 audio files of all programs that are for sale. These files are 99 cents per program and [...]
"Google Releases 50 New Features for Presentations in Google Docs"
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From VentureBeat: …Google has turned its focus toward making Presentations more than a lackluster alternative to PowerPoint. The company tackled the aesthetic usability of Presentations with this latest slew of 50 updates… [Clip] In order to try out the [new] features Google is unveiling, go to your documents, select settings, click the Editing tab and [...]
Journalism: Reference Tools: The TON Pitch Database
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From The Open Notebook (The Story Behind the Best Science Stories) To tell a compelling story to readers, you first need to sell it to an editor. This database contains dozens of successful feature pitches to a wide range of publications, each with a link to the corresponding published story, and many with additional annotations [...]
