July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From the City of Chicago: Mayor Rahm Emanuel was joined this morning by Chicago Public Library (CPL) Commissioner Brian Bannon at the Albany Park Library branch to announce a significant expansion of Chicago Public Library early learning spaces across the city. Thanks to a $2.5 million grant from Exelon Corporation to the Chicago Public Library […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From DataSF: Data can feel dry, boring and academic. At the same time, everyone loves a good story. But every story has a rich vein of data threaded throughout, describing a pattern and illuminating a path forward. It’s only when we link the data narratives that underlie our stories, that we are able to make […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
Here’s a new report published and released online today (July 31, 2015) by CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources). Title The Once and Future Publishing Library Authors Ann Okerson Center for Research Libraries Alex Holzman Alex Publishing Source Council on Library and Information Resources CLIR Publication No. 166 ISBN: 978-1-932326-53-6 Abstract The report explores […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From the NARA Blog: NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) has enjoyed a successful partnership with Ancestry since 2008. NARA has also partnered with Fold3, Ancestry’s sister site, since 2007. In the month of June alone, NARA records received 8.8 million views on Ancestry.com, and 2.5 million views on Fold3.com. We are renewing our partnership […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
The following full text article appears in the latest issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Title Retraction Policies of Top Scientific Journals Ranked by Impact Factor Authors David B. Resnik, JD., PhD National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health Elizabeth Wager, PhD Sideview Grace E. Kissling, PhD National Institute […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From OCLC: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Senior Research Scientist, has been elected President-elect of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the 2016 administrative year, and President for 2017. Connaway has been a member of ASIS&T for 25 years. She has served in a variety of leadership positions within the organization, including co-chair […]
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July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Newslog: ITU members have achieved first-stage approval (‘consent’) of the first ITU-T standard on Big Data. The standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well as its ‘system context’, a high-level view of a cloud-based Big Data system and its relationships with other […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
From a Joint Announcement: Today [July 29, 2015], the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana and WWF heralded a new era of fisheries transparency with the launch of an online database detailing 15,264 EU vessels authorised to fish outside EU waters between 2010 and 2014. The figures have been made public by the NGOs for the […]
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July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
The following full text reference resource was published online earlier this month by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Title Energy Primer: A Handbook of Energy Market Basics (Also Embedded Below) Author The Division of Energy Market Oversight, Office of Enforcement Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Source FERC.gov Publication Date July 2015 Direct to Full Text (128 […]
July 31, 2015 by Gary Price
The following full text article appears in Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Title Don’t Make Me Type: A Study of Students’ Perceptions of Library Catalogues on Tablet Computers Author Erik Gordon Christiansen University of Alberta Source Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research Vol. 10, […]