News Roundup
News and New Resources
1. First Presidential Debate on YouTube: Nearly 2 Million Concurrent Viewers and Over 3 Million Live Watch Hours (via YouTube Blog)
To put these numbers into context, we took a look at 2012 debate viewership on YouTube. Compared to 2012, last night’s debate had 14x larger live viewership, 5x higher watch time, and 4x more peak concurrent viewers. And views on all debate-related videos exceeded 88 million.
See Also: Trump-Clinton Debate Seen By Record 80.9 Million TV Viewers: CNN (via Reuters)
See Also: How the Cable News Networks’ Ratings Fared for the First Presidential Debate (via FishbowlDC)
2. Preview: Crossref Plans to Release New DOI Display Guidelines in the Next Couple of Weeks
3. Two New Apps: Google News Lite Mode App Launches for Slower Internet Connections (via Search Engine Land) & YouTube Go App “Reimagines” Video Service For The Next Generation Of Viewers (via YouTube Blog)
4. Belgium’s Liberaal Archief Joins Flickr Commons
5. Cornell University Library Announces Grants to Help Digitize Glass Models, Punk Fliers
Findings
6. More Text, Less Talk: Millennials Would Rather Delete their Phone App Than Delete Snapchat (via Business Insider)
7. Top 10 Pay TV Services in U.S. Collectively Lost 663,000 Television Subscribers in Q2 2016 Quarter, Were Down By 437,100 Year On Year (via informitv Multiscreen Index)
Updates
8. Software: VuFind 3.1 Releases
9. Ex Libris Collaborates with Rosetta Users for Release of Rosetta 5.1
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Roundup, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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