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This new service comes from Amazon Web Services and is named Glacier. It might be of interest to some of you who have an interest/need for off-site storage of data. At the bottom of this post you’ll find a link to a few common use studies for the service including archiving research and scientific data […]
New Cisco Forecast Projects the Internet Will Be Four Times as Large (1.3 Zettabytes) in Four Years
|From Cisco: Today, Cisco issued results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. The VNI Forecast update covers 2011-2016, and quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected to travel public and private networks, including […]
A New Web Page Loaded With HathiTrust Instructional Materials Now Available
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Heather Christenson from the California Digital Library Blogs: The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has just announced a new HathiTrust Resources and Guides Web page. Here you can find overviews, instructional materials, and guides covering HathiTrust and its services. These resources have been created by the HathiTrust Communications Working Group and by HathiTrust partner libraries… Materials […]
New Research Report & Podcast from ACRL: “Scenarios for the Future of the Book”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Podcasts, Publishing
|From an ACRL Blog Post: ACRL [Association of College & Research Libraries] has released a new research report, Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Scenarios for the Future of the Book, to help librarians reexamine their assumptions, which may be grounded in the current e-book zeitgeist. Authored by David J. Staley, director of the Harvey Goldberg […]
Research Article: “Beyond Citations: Scholars’ Visibility on the Social Web” (Preprint)
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Profiles, Resources, School Libraries
|Title Beyond Citations: Scholars’ Visibility on the Social Web Authors Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Stefanie Haustein Central Library, Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany) Isabella Peters Department of Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University (Germany) Jason Priem School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA) Hadas Shema Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan […]
We’ve written many times about how wonderful and important the C-SPAN Video Library. This online library contains just about everything that has ever aired on C-SPAN back to when the network launched in 1987. In many cases, every word in each program is searchable along with the metadata. All video can be viewed online. This […]
OverDrive Says Developer APIs Will Become Available in July
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|OverDrive APIs that were supposed to launch in April are now set to become available in July. From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: OverDrive’s product and development teams have been hard at work developing a suite of APIs (application programming interfaces) that will enable approved vendors to deeply integrate OverDrive-hosted catalogs and nearly 1 million […]
Free Online: California Historical Society Releases Golden Gate Bridge Multimedia e-Book for iPads
|From the Contra Costa Times: The California Historical Society has released a multimedia eBook for iPads that captures the history and story of the Golden Gate Bridge through artwork, photographs, video, memorabilia, stories, images and more. The free iPad eBook is titled, A Wild Flight of the Imagination: The Story of the Golden Gate Bridge. […]
A Roundup of R.M.S. Titanic Resources
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Resources, Roundup
|New on Search Engine Land (where I’m a contributing editor) is a post listing a bunch of Titanic-related resources (databases, video, images, etc.). As you know, Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the ships sinking. The roundup includes resources from the Library of Congress, BBC, National Archives (UK), NARA, C-SPAN, and others. Direct to Article: […]
via Reuters: The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitized collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and Hebrew manuscripts […]