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The segment aired on Thursday morning during the ABC Radio National Future Tense program and runs approximately 10 1/2 minutes. You can stream the audio and/or download the mp3 audio. A text transcript is also available. Jill Cousins, Europeana’s executive director, is interviewed. From the interview: Antony Funnell [Host]: Jill Cousins from Europeana, have you […]
In a New Scientist article, Google’s Dan Russell talks about his job, discoverability of ideas, and more. Dan also mentions a super interesting fact that we’ve heard from him before (it’s worth repeating) and something that many of us have shared during presentations for years, the POWER of the Control+F (find) feature. It’s one of […]
Reports from Wiki Conference India. Wikipedia rivals traditional encyclopedias in accuracy (Q & A Interview with Jimmy Wales, via Livemint) Wikipedia hosts India conference amid expansion push (via BBC News) Outside the campus a small group of protesters demonstrated against the depiction of the map of India on Wikipedia, which they say is an inaccurate […]
From the Bowdoin University Digital Commons: Between 2008 and 2011, the Bowdoin College Library conducted an oral history project to create a collection of spoken recollections and personal impressions from individuals who have known George J. Mitchell in a variety of ways. These oral histories document his life and career from early childhood onward, with […]
Video Now Online of NARA's "What's Next in Social Media" Forum
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|Direct to Video (via YouTube) The program runs 93 minutes NARA’s “What’s Next in Social Media” (aka Seventh Annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications, Technology, and Government Forum) took place on November 4, 2011 at the National Archives in Washington, DC. It featured a great panel moderated by Alex Howard (@digiphile), Gov 2.0 Correspondent, […]
Journal of Electronic Publishing (14.2, Fall 2011) Direct to Complete Table of Contents (With Abstracts) Direct to Individual Articles Editor’s Note by Aaron McCollough Some Thoughts on Poetry and Pornography as Experimental Twins by Richard Nash Two Future Binaries by Michael S. Hennessey WYSIWYG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers and Scholars by W. […]
From the C-SPAN Web Site: Book TV will be LIVE streaming the 62nd annual National Book Awards from New York City on Wednesday, November 16 at www.booktv.org. Our coverage begins with red carpet interviews of the non-fiction finalists followed by the entire awards ceremony. The event is hosted by John Lithgow at Cipriani in New […]
U.S. History: A New Digital Collection from Duke U. Libraries Looks at Life in the Jim Crow South
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|From the Duke University Libraries Announcement: One hundred oral histories of life in the Jim Crow South, complete with transcripts, have been digitized and made available on the Duke University Libraries website and iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store. From 1993 to 1995, dozens of graduate students at Duke and other schools […]
Jennifer Bergen from PCMag.com offers a look at 8 enhanced e-book titles. Enhanced ebooks can include video, film clips from news reels or major motion pictures, drawings, author interviews, original music, diagrams, photos, and more. In most cases, you can think of an enhanced ebook as an ebook with that extra bonus disc of features […]
Audio/Text Transcript: Peter Brantley Interviewed on Public Radio About Libraries and eBooks
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|Chicago Public Radio has aired and posted a seven minute interview with Peter Brantley from the Internet Archive and their awesome Open Library project. The interview begins with a brief discussion about some of the current issues involving ebook lending and libraries before discussing the Open Library “In-Library eBook Lending Program” that began in February […]