MORE 'ONLINE-RESEARCH-REFERENCE' POSTS
From Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land: Yahoo has announced some significant changes to their Yahoo Image and Video Search tools. They include a deal with sourcing Getty Images most recent collections plus an upgraded user interface design with added features to Yahoo Image and Video Search. Barry’s post also includes plenty of screenshots. See […]
Gale Launches New Database Suite: National Geographic Virtual Library
| Associations and Organizations, Gale, Libraries, Maps, Resources
From Gale: Gale and the National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, today announced an extended agreement to create additional library products as part of a new product suite, National Geographic Virtual Library. Earlier this year, Gale announced the National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, for libraries, which included all […]
A New Powerful Review/Collection Development Resource from Media Source: Book Verdict
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
Congrats to my Media Source colleagues on the launch of the new Book Verdict resource. This new subscription service provides searchable access to more than 30o,000 book and media reviews from more than 20 years of LJ, SLJ, The Horn Book, and Junior Library Guild. New reviews will be added to the database weekly. From […]
Reference: World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Launches New Digital Library
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
From the WADA Web Site: WADA has launched a new Digital Library designed to make WADA’s education and information tools more accessible to its stakeholders. The Library will assist stakeholders in developing their education programs by pin-pointing tools available for the target groups they wish to reach. Results of a survey of 597 WADA stakeholders […]
Yesterday, ICANN, an international organization in charge of Internet domain names, announced the names and applicants for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). We have coverage here. Today, MarkMonitor, a company providing intellectual property services including domain name registrations and monitoring for many companies (including Google), has released a gTLD application information database. The database […]
Reference: U.S. Department of Education Releases New and Updated College Cost Data
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Reports, Resources, School Libraries
From the U.S. Department of Education: The U.S. Department of Education continued to increase transparency around the cost of college by updating several lists on its College Affordability and Transparency Center today, highlighting institutions with the highest and lowest tuition and net price, and those schools where prices are rising the fastest. In addition, this […]
Reference: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Book Bindings Database
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
From a Letter to Colleagues Shared on Book_Arts-L. Discovered via Twitter. The Folger Bindings Image Collection provides access to high resolution images and descriptions of bindings from the rare book and manuscript collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Bindings are chosen from the collection for photography and description not only because of decorative tooling but […]
From the U.S. Census Web Site: The Census Bureau today released a menu-driven, interactive Web page permitting users to access for any state a series of graphs showing percentages of adults who voted and registered in every congressional and presidential election between 1996 and 2010. In addition to graphs showing voting and registration trends over […]
From a LIBER Blog Post: The DART-Europe E-theses Portal, hosted by UCL Library Services in association with LIBER, is a metadata aggregation that aims to provide one-stop access to Europe’s open access research-level theses. DART-Europe now gives access to over 300,000 full-text research theses from 424 Universities in 23 European countries. The 300,000th thesis to […]
New Article: “Beyond Simple, Easy, and Fast: Reflections on Teaching Summon”
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
The following article appears in the just released June 2012 issue of C&RL News. Title Beyond Simple, Easy, and Fast: Reflections on Teaching Summon Authors Catherine Cardwell Ohio Wesleyan University Vera Lux Bowling Green State University Robert J. Snyder Bowling Green State University Source College and Research Libraries June 2012 (73.6) From the Article In […]
