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"In Electric Discovery, Scholar Finds Trove of Walt Whitman Documents in National Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Interviews, News, Profiles
|From an Article in The Chronicle Of Higher Education by Jennifer Howard: Kenneth M. Price, a professor of English and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, uncovered the 3,000 or so documents over the last couple of years at the Archives. David S. Ferriero, […]
Coming Soon From Factiva: iPad App, a New UI, Customizable “Snapshot” Views, More Content
Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From a Dow Jones Announcement: iPad App Coming in May The Factiva iPad app and new content features will all be available in nine interface languages including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Russian. The Factiva iPad app will be available in May. [Clip] Live on April 30th The new Snapshots capture a personalized view […]
Video: Archived Presentations from the WebWise 2011 Conference Available Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Profiles
|A tweet from @tweetMETRO reminds us to remind you that all of the presentations from the WebWise 2011 conference are archived and available online. The conference is a signature event from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). WebWise 2011 took place last month in Baltimore. Direct to Archived Video Presentations Here are some […]
A hat tip and thank you to Due Process: Georgetown Law Library Blog for letting us know about the release of an iPhone app from the Oyez Project. The Oyez Project web site provides access to audio from current and historic audio of U.S. Supreme Court (USSC} oral arguments and other media along with in-depth profiles […]
Law Professor James Grimmelmann Discusses Google Book Search Settlement Decision on Bloomberg TV
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Profiles
|Professor James Grimmelmann from the New York Law School has been one of the legal experts the media has been turning to for comments about the Google Book Settlement since it was announced about 10 days ago. A smart move by the media. Grimmelmann and his students have done an outstanding job providing analysis and […]
No Kidding: Most U.S. Government Transparency Web Sites To Go Dark
Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles, Resources
|From Federal News Radio: Many of the Obama administration’s top open government initiatives are set to be turned off by May 31. Government sources confirm that the Office of Management and Budget is planning to take seven websites dark in two months because of a lack of funding. One government official, who requested anonymity because […]
Dr. Suber was interviewed by Richard Masters for Science Media Watch. The interview opens with Suber’s definition of open access: First of all, OA is impossible without the internet, the way I define OA entails the internet. Even if you wrote some literature and gave it away on the street, it’s not strictly OA because […]
Via Free Government Information: Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) was interviewed by C-SPAN at the at the 2011 Virginia Book Festival and the interview begins airing today. Sunday, March 27th at 5:12pm (ET) Sunday, March 27th at 11:15pm (ET) Monday, March 28th at 5:12am (ET) The program […]
Interview With Colleen Cook, McGill’s Trenholme Dean of Libraries
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From an Interview by Neale McDevitt, McGill Reporter “It’s not just a sound bite, but I have the best job on campus,” said McGill’s new Trenholme Dean of Libraries Colleen Cook, earlier this week in an interview with the McGill Reporter. “Whether they are undergraduate students, graduate students or faculty – whether they are chemists […]
Twitter celebrated its fifth birthday this week and one of its co-founders, Biz Stone, sat down with Tavis Smiley from PBS for an interview on Wednesday night (March 23rd). The video is now available online. Here’s the Blurb from the Tavis Smiley Show/PBS Web Site: Biz Stone, co-founder and creative director for the uberpopular microblogging […]