April 30, 2011 by Gary Price
Articles Include in This Issue: Curation Micro-Services: A Pipeline Metaphor for Repositories by Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze, David Minor Building a DDC-annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata Mathias Lösch, Ulli Waltinger, Wolfram Horstmann, Alexander Mehler Preserving repository content: practical tools for repository managers Miggie Pickton, Debra Morris, Stephanie Meece, Simon Coles, Steve Hitchcock Archival […]
April 30, 2011 by Gary Price
Here’s an EXCELLENT intro presentation about linked data by Jon Voss, founder of LookBackMaps, that’s also full of links to explore. Voss delivered the presentation on April 29, 2011 at the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums) Bootcamp prior to the opening of the Great Lakes THAT Camp taking place in East […]
April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
Here’s another example of a database being built with the help of crowdsourcing. It is becoming clear that crowdsourcing is moving from an experiment in the use of online social networking to a useful and relatively inexpensive way to assist in the creation of a database. As you’ll read, this project is looking for people […]
April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
LITA (Library & Information Technology Assn.) has released results from their recent elections and at the same time we’ve learned that several members of the association have been elected as ALA Councilors-at-Large. Congrats, kudos, mazel tov and all the rest to those elected. Newly Elected LITA Board Members (via a LITA Blog Post) Zoe Stewart-Marshall, […]
April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
Congratulations Maureen! From ALA: Maureen Sullivan, an organization development consultant, has been elected to the 2012-13 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA). Sullivan defeated Susan Stroyan, information services librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill. Sullivan received 5,259 votes. Stroyan received 3,642 votes. [Clip] “I am humbled and honored to have been […]
April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
From a MLA Announcement: The Executive Council has approved the creation of the office of scholarly communication. This new office will be responsible for a range of activities intended to promote scholarship among our members and within the larger academic community and will incorporate and expand the work of the book publications unit. Kathleen Fitzpatrick […]
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April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
Direct to CLIR Issues (March/April 2011) Articles Include: Symposium Focuses on Deep Collaboration CLIR Holds First of New Participatory Design Workshops DLF Joins National Digital Stewardship Alliance Medical Heritage Library Awarded NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant Sloan Foundation Awards CLIR Grant for Research on Building Data Curation Skills CLIR and Stanford Receive Mellon Grants for […]
April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
New Research From DigiTimes: Demand for e-book readers remained strong in first-quarter 2011, with global shipments soaring 236% on year to 4.8 million units. Digitimes Research believes global e-book reader shipments will reach 27 million units in 2011. Among the brand-name vendors, Amazon will continue to be the market leader with an 60% share of […]
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April 29, 2011 by Gary Price
From Westchester.com: More than 9,000 historical photographs and maps stored in archival vaults have been digitized and placed online as part of the newly launched Westchester County Archives’ Digital Collections. “Every aspect of government needs to be continually improving,” said County Executive Robert P. Astorino. “This digitization project is an example of how technology can […]
April 28, 2011 by Gary Price
A new report from the Colorado Library Research Service. by: Zeth Lietzau and Jamie Helgren Direct to Full Text (56 pages; PDF) From a Report Summary (With Charts): Libraries’ online presence is a constant topic of conversation, with anecdotal insights dominating the discussion. A broader picture of what libraries across the country – and throughout […]