January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
From a FEMA Announcement: The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is an award-winning, free, national online source for sophisticated climate data down to the neighborhood level. ClimRR provides easy access to climate data to integrate future conditions into Hazard Mitigation Plans, land use plans, infrastructure design, and FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). ClimRR data is available […]
January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL Technical Development: Year in Review Boston Library Consortium, NISO Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Announce Membership Agreement EBSCO EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024 DataCite Meet Maria Gould, DataCite’s New Product Director Google Chrome Browser Adds Three New Generative […]
January 16, 2024 by Gary Price
AI North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction Releases: “Generative AI Implementation Recommendations and Considerations for PK-13 Public Schools” Maps Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View (via Folger Shakespeare Library) Laboratories The 4D Research Lab: 3DModelling And Virtual Reconstruction for Research and Education (via Europeana Pro) Open Science Open Science Indicators (OSIs) : New Year, New Dataset (via […]
January 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Record: The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — began restoring access to its online catalog on Monday following a ransomware attack last October. [Clip] The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, […]
January 7, 2024 by Gary Price
The interview with Dr. Hayden appears in the Winter 2024 (Vol. XL, No. 2 ) issue of Issues in Science and Technology. From the Description: Carla Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to lead the Library of Congress. In addition to preserving millions of books, newspapers, films, photographs, audio recordings, maps, […]
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November 27, 2023 by Gary Price
From the City of Pittsburgh: The Records Management Division of the Office of the City Clerk and City Council is pleased to announce the launch of a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to the public to browse and research online: https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/. The website features recently […]
November 13, 2023 by Gary Price
American Library Association (ALA) Video: ALA President Emily Drabinski Interviewed by ABC News About Attacks on Reading and Book Censorship Boston Public Library Why We Need Public Libraries Now More than Ever (via Boston Magazine) Center For Research Libraries (CRL) CRL Board Announcement on Strengthening Global Collections GIS/Maps This Easy-to-Use Tool Will Let You Make […]
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September 21, 2023 by Gary Price
From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau today released 2020 Census population counts and sex-by-age statistics for 300 detailed race and ethnic groups, as well as 1,187 detailed American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes and villages. These data come from the 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A). Previously, the […]
September 17, 2023 by Gary Price
From the University of Illinois: JooYoung Seo, a professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is developing a data visualization tool that will help make visual representations of statistical data accessible to researchers and students who are blind or visually impaired. The multimodal representation tool is aimed at the accessibility of statistical graphs, such […]