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Collection of the Day: Digital Photographic Archive of Historic Havana
From Hampshire College: Plan Maestro Office was created in 1994 with the mandate to create a master plan for the renovation and preservation of historic Havana and for the visual documentation of the city as the planning authority of the Oficina del Historiador. Listed in 1982 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the Old City […]
Law Library of Congress Launches a New Online Collection of U.S. Military Legal Resources
From In Custodia Legis: A new collection is now available on the law.gov website: Military Legal Resources. This collection includes material from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia. [Clip] Selections of their physical library collection have been digitized and made available to the public online, including […]
Brill Publishes Open Access Reference Work on the History of Medicine with the Wellcome Trust
From a Brill Announcement: In conjunction with Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust, London, Brill proudly presents the new Open Access reference work A Literary History of Medicine – The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah Online (LHOM). Thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, A Literary History of Medicine Online […]
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New York State: Rochester-area Libraries Increase Understanding of Poverty
From The Daily Messenger: The Pioneer Library System is partnering with the Rochester Regional Library Council and the Wayne-Finger Lakes School Library System to offer a poverty simulation training for librarians, government workers, and direct service providers. The Poverty Simulation, facilitated by Coordinated Care Services of Rochester, is an exercise designed to help community leaders […]
Reference: SIPRI’s Arms Trade Treaty Database Now Covers East Asia and South East Asia
From SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) SIPRI is pleased to announce that it has expanded and improved its online database for Mapping Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)-Relevant Cooperation and Assistance Activities to include East Asia and South East Asia. The database now contains information on over 440 cooperation and assistance activities aimed at building capacity in areas […]
Reference: History: Smuggled Diplomatic Diaries From Dawn Of Cold War To Be Made Freely Available Online
From the University of Lincoln (UK): An extraordinary collection of diplomatic diaries smuggled from Moscow to Paris as Communism swept across the East almost 70 years ago will be digitized and made freely available online for the first time. The writings of Fu Bingchang (1895-1965), China’s ambassador to the USSR from 1943-49, offer a remarkable […]
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Canada: U of Manitoba, Union Disagree Strongly on Library Staff Cuts
From the Winnipeg Free Press: Association of Employees Supporting Education Services (AESES) president Laurie R. Morris told union members that the U of M has made “drastic cuts” worth more than $2 million in salaries. University libraries alone have lost more than 25 per cent of their staff, Morris told union members in an internal […]
New Research on Privacy: “Online Tracking: A 1-Million-Site Measurement and Analysis”
From researchers at Princeton University, a new research paper (draft) titled, “Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis” by Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan From the Abstract We present the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking conducted to date, based on a crawl of the top 1 million websites. We make 15 types […]
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Reference: Interactive Web Version of U.S. Climate Atlas Now Available Online
From the NCEI: We’ve updated the U.S. Climate Atlas and created a new interface to provide you easier access to it. Unlike the previous version, which was only available on CD-ROM, the new Atlas is available through an interactive website that you can freely access anywhere there’s an internet connection. With the website, you can […]
Cultural Heritage: How Do People Use Europeana? A New Statistics Dashboard Launches (Beta)
From Europeana: [The Europeana Statistics Dashboard is a] tool for our partners that allows us to be fully open and gives granular insight into how each collection is performing on Europeana Collections. Europeana helps cultural institutions across Europe share their digital collections with a wider audience. We collect data from thousands of institutions from all […]
