July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
From the Library of Congress: Today, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site adding more than 600,000 historic newspaper pages, including first-time contributions from Iowa, Michigan, and West Virginia. Other new additions include content from Hawaii, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
From the Ransom Center: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of the McSweeney’s publishing company. Founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s is considered one of the most influential literary journals and publishing houses of its time. McSweeney’s publishes books, Timothy […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation Deeplinks Blog: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of organizations and law schools today launched the newest tool in the fight against patent trolls: Trolling Effects. [Our emphasis] The online resource aims to unite and empower would-be victims of patent trolls through a crowdsourced database of demand letters […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
Here’s a selection of public library news items from around the country. All of the stories were posted online during the past week except where noted. Alabama Florence: Unpaid fines leave libraries suffering (via TimesDaily) Arizona La Paz County: New committee formed to explore library district (via Parker Pioneer) California Santa Maria Library benching its benches […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
Here’s the sixth selection in our series featuring papers that will be presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2013 next month in Singapore. Our first five selections are linked at the bottom of this post. Today’s Selection (#6) Title Translating Standards into Actions: A Case Study on Implementation and Training Authors Mary Ellen […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
Deloitte released findings from their “Back to School” and “Back to College” shopping studies the other day. You can access the reports here (PDF). Deloitte surveyed parents of K-12 and college students about a number of topics including the amount they plan to spend, use of social media to find deals, etc. Included in the […]
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July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
Here’s info about a new web tool, a bookmarklet to be specific, we thought some of you might be interested in learning about and using. It’s free. The developers would appreciate any feedback you might have. We plan to give it a trial soon. Thanks to LIBER (Association for European Research Libraries) for alerting us […]
July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
From Minnesota Daily (Student Paper at U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul): Electronic books, or e-books, are gaining popularity among college-aged students and educators, including those at the University of Minnesota. While e-books currently account for only 6 percent of textbook sales at University Bookstores, that number is growing, said assistant director Martha Hoppe. While colleges […]
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July 31, 2013 by Gary Price
An impressive list of new content and enhancements recently made to the Congress.gov site (aka the replacement for THOMAS) was made available. What’s New (July 2013) Committee Reports (New) Committee Reports were added and date back to 1995 with the beginning of the 104th Congress. Committee Reports are available for global search with facets for Congress, Chamber, […]
July 30, 2013 by Gary Price
From a Lincoln U. Announcement: In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web. The decision by Lincoln University to make content openly […]