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From the Office For National Statistics: Oliver retained the top spot this year, with Jack still the second most popular baby name. Charlie rose two places to number five, William climbed up one to number seven and George re-entered the top 10 at number nine, up from eleven last year. James fell one place to […]
Direct to Interactive Visualization This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress’ “Chronicling America” project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers. See Also: Journalism’s Voyage West: Visualizing US Newspapers, 1690-2011 (Animations) See Also: More Interactive Visualizations Source: Rural West […]
Social Media: Federal Agencies Need Policies and Procedures for Managing and Protecting Information They Access and Disseminate Federal agencies increasingly use recently developed Internet technologies that allow individuals or groups to create, organize, comment on, and share online content. The use of these social media services– including popular Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube– […]
Two Articles From New Issue IFLA's IT Div. Newsletter: "RFID—the Successor of the Barcode" & "Re-inventing the OPAC as a metadata hub"
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|The Following Articles Appear in the July 2011 Issue of the IFLA Information Technology Section Newsletter. Direct to Complete Issue (12 Pages; PDF) 1. “RFID—the Successor of the Barcode” (Found of Page 5 of PDF) by Leif Andresen A smooth and straightforward check-in/check-out process for books is key to the library business, and RFID can […]
Newspaper Digitization: "From the archives to digitized: Historic Vermont newspapers get new lease on life online"
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|From VTDigger.org: The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project last week added its first batch of digitized newspaper pages to a national database dedicated to providing searchable digital copies of historic newspapers from all over the nation. Tom McMurdo, the project librarian for the state effort, said there are currently 25 states involved in the National Digital […]
New Video: Project Highlights from EuropeanaLocal
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|Direct to Video (via YouTube). It runs 3:21 EuropeanaLocal was a Best Practice project funded by the EU under eContentPlus. It started in June 2008 and ended in May 2011. EuropeanaLocal made content from local and regional museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual institutions accessible through Europeana. Europeana made the EuropeanaLocal video available online less than a […]
From the NY Times: Few battles in history have been more scrutinized than Gettysburg’s three blood-soaked days in July 1863, the turning point in the Civil War. Still, there were questions that all the diaries, official reports and correspondence couldn’t answer precisely. What, for example, could Gen. Robert E. Lee actually see when he issued […]
Four new features are now live for users when conducting research using HathiTrust full text search database and collection builder tool. The Full-text Search index now includes bibliographic data, which is being used to: Improve results ranking Allow users to refine results using bibliographic facets Remember, a large number of items (including domain titles) from […]
"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne
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|Ariadne #64 (July, 2011) Main Articles in This Issue: Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. Image ‘Quotation’ Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples […]
The maps shows 373 centers that the feds hope to close over the next two years. From Computerworld: The targeted data centers range in size from a 195,000-square foot Department of Homeland Security facility in Alabama to four Department of Agriculture data centers, each of less than 1,000 square feet in size. If the White […]