Popular Mechanic takes a brief look at research projects at: + Google + Yahoo + VW + GM Each one page report looks at one specific project. The Google piece focuses on Google Goggles and mentions of a couple of other image recognition tools (Word Lens and omoby). The Yahoo article discusses the C.O.R.E. Visualization [...]
A Sneak Peek Look at Four Silicon Valley Labs (Including Google and Yahoo)
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U.Va. Library's New Streaming Oral History Project Tells the Legal Story of the Civil Rights Struggle
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From U. Va. Today: In March 1985, civil rights leader and former Howard University president James M. Nabrit did an extended interview for an oral history project led by then-University of Virginia English professor William Elwood. Cigar in hand, Nabrit – a former NAACP lawyer who worked with Thurgood Marshall and others to fight segregation [...]
OCLC Adds 500,000 Records to WorldCat From China Academic Library and Information System
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From OCLC: OCLC has added 500,000 records to WorldCat from the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), a nationwide academic library consortium with a mission to promote, maintain and improve resource sharing among Chinese university libraries and other libraries and institutions. These records represent Chinese publications between 1987 and 2001. The records have been [...]
Statistics: How Americans are Spending their Media Time… and Money
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From Nielsen: Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. But how they’re consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is changing. Demonstrating that consumers are increasingly making Internet connectivity a priority, 75.3 percent pay for broadband Internet (up from 70.9% last year); 90.4 percent pay [...]
Some New Canadian Book, eBook, and Library Statistics Available in New National Book Count
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From the National Post: The results of the second annual National Book Count were released on Thursday. For the second year in a row, book sales and libraries loans were tracked by a partnership of booksellers and library systems and combined by the National Reading Campaign, a group of “readers, parents, writers, editors, librarians, bookstore [...]
Europe: More Than 10 Million Digitized Newspaper Pages Coming to Europeana
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From LIBER: A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service. The European Newspapers project (funded under EC’s CIP 2007 – 2013) aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The [...]
Reed Elsevier Reports 2011 Results
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From The Bookseller: The academic publisher saw its underlying sales grow by 2% to £2,058m for the year to 31st December 2011, from £2,026m in 2010, while its underlying operating profit increased by 4% to £768m from £724m, due to “increased efficiency” at the company. The science and technology field performance particularly stood out, with [...]
Reference: New Interactive Site/Database Features Info About Wyoming's Electrical Generation Facilities
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From WyoFile: The Wyoming State Geological Survey recently launched an interactive web site featuring electrical generation in the Cowboy State. Among the offerings is a map of electrical generation facilities and an extensive database of each facility ranging from the Happy Jack windfarm in Laramie County to the 2-megawatt capacity Old Faithful fuel-oil facility in — [...]
Digital Comics: Sales Triple in 2011 & Yale U. Classics Scholar Adds New Content to Comic Series
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From ICv2: ICv2 has released its estimate for the digital comics market in 2011: $25 million. That’s over triple the sales in the channel in 2010, when ICv2 estimated the digital comics market at $8 million. That’s a total for the English language market, as sales are not restricted by territory and a significant percentage [...]
New Jersey: Three-Year Study Asserts Benefits of School Libraries on Student Learning
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From NJ.com: The New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) released findings on Wednesday of a three-year study conducted by the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) at Rutgers University, which explored the values of quality school libraries to education in New Jersey. “The findings show that New Jersey school libraries and school [...]
