According to the TinEye Blog post, the exact number of images added to the database was 33,324,483. With the newly added images, the total TinEye index is now at 2,067,849,651. A little more than a year ago the TinEye index was at 1,823,535,745 images. If you’ve never taken a look and/or used TinEye it’s MORE than [...]
Reverse Image Search Engine TinEye Adds More Than 33 Million Images to Index
Filed by on December 21, 2011
Library Copyright Alliance Sends Letter of Support to Six Member of the Hosue of Representatives Re: SOPA
Filed by on December 21, 2011
The letter was written by ARL’s Brandon Butler (on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance), has sent a letter to six member of the U.S. House of Representatives (and House Judiciary Committee) thanking them for their, “vigorous advocacy of First Amendment rights and the value of an open and secure Internet during last week’s markup [...]
WorldCat.org: Lowercase Boolean Opeartors No Longer Work
Filed by on December 21, 2011
A tweet and Facebook entry from the WorldCat team has announced that Boolean operators will now work ONLY when used in ALL CAPS. Lowercase versions of and, or, not have been added to the word exclusion list. Here’s an Updated WorldCat Word Exclusion (aka Stop List): English: a an and (lowercase) are as at be [...]
Cataloging: SkyRiver and Donohue Group Announce Partnership
Filed by on December 21, 2011
From a News Release: The Donohue Group Incorporated (DGI) and SkyRiver announce a collaboration whereby DGI will contribute full and in-process MARC records to the SkyRiver database. DGI’s clients include several publishers of nonprint and electronic content such as Playaway, Recorded Books, and AudioGo. These publishers have negotiated with SkyRiver to permit DGI to contribute [...]
Three U.S. Government Web Sites Launch New Features and Look
Filed by on December 21, 2011
Public Libraries: Palo Alto Library Foundation Donates $1.9M For Furnishings at Renovated Library
Filed by on December 21, 2011
From the Palo Alto Daily News: When construction wraps up at the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center next year, its contents will be just as new. The Palo Alto Library Foundation presented the city council with a $1.9 million check Monday night to fill the renovated facility with brand-new “furnishings, fixtures and equipment.” “I [...]
India: Delhi Announces Plans to Digitize City Archives
Filed by on December 21, 2011
From Asian Age: In an attempt to digitalise the archives in Delhi, the city government has signed an agreement with the National Institute of Smart Governance, Hyderabad, on Tuesday. The records includes 10 crore documents such as CID records, Gazettes, maps, manuscripts, photographs, negatives and records of eminent personalities. It will also include transfer of [...]
New Issue Alert: Information Standards Quarterly (Fall 2011)
Filed by on December 21, 2011
Information Standards Quarterly (Vol. 23, No. 4; Fall 2011;) The theme of this issue: Standards Implementation Benefits Via NISO: In the issue’s main feature article, Mary Jackson (Auto-Graphics, Inc.) quantifies the productivity benefits of implementing the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) standard and illustrates the savings with case studies and before and after workflow comparisons. [...]
Two Journals Mull Publishing Killer Flu Virus Details
Filed by on December 21, 2011
From Discovery News: Two top scientific journals said Tuesday they were mulling whether to publish details of a man-made mutant killer flu virus that has sparked concerns of mass deaths if it were released. A US government’s science advisory committee urged the US journal Science and the British journal Nature to withhold key details so [...]
New Collective Licence for International Non-Commercial Document Supply by the British Library
Filed by on December 21, 2011
From the BL News Release: The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) has agreed an extension of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Document Delivery Licence with the British Library that allows the licensed supply of articles to overseas non-commercial end-users via overseas not-for-profit libraries at a special fixed rate. The British Library plans to launch its International [...]
