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Google News & New Resources Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Resources, Roundup
|Google Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011) Note: Items in this roundup were published between August 16, 2011 and September 6, 2011. 1. [Oops!]: “Closed, Says Google, but Shops’ Signs Say Open” (via NY Times) 2. See Also: Google Aims to Close Google Maps Loophole (via PC World) 3. “Google Customer Support Surprise: Phone Reps Handling […]
Library of Congress and Smithsonian Launch Civil Rights History Project Website
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From LC: The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) have launched The Civil Rights History Project at www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/. The portal presents the results of a nationwide inventory of oral-history interviews with participants in the civil rights movement. The research, […]
Preservation: "Library of Congress Announces Agreement with Small Press Expo For Acquisition of Independent Comics and Cartoon Art"
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, News, Preservation, Profiles
|From LC: The Library of Congress [recently] announced an agreement with Small Press Expo that will allow the Library to acquire independent comics and cartoon-art forms—material that it does not receive through copyright deposit. The Small Press Expo (SPX) is an annual festival in Bethesda, Md., for alternative comic creators. The festival brings together more […]
From Mashable: Google+ was meant to be an identity service, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend, shedding some light on Google’s reasoning behind Google+’s controversial real-name policy. Google’s requirement that members of its social layer, Google+, use only their real names has been a point of contention for several weeks — especially for people […]
From a National Digital Public Library Announcement by John Palfrey, Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey on the DPLA: I wanted to share with you a video about some of the Boston-area Beta Sprint projects that was created this summer by two Berkman Center interns, Ben Naddaff-Hafrey and Meredith Whipple. In their words: “We’re interns at the Berkman […]
Acting General Counsel releases report on social media cases The National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel today released a report detailing the outcome of investigations into 14 cases involving the use of social media and employers’ social and general media policies. In releasing the document, Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon said, “I hope that […]
Last week we reported that BookLamp.org was expected to go live on Tuesday. Well, it’s now Tuesday AM in the U.S. and the service, the result of an “exploratory project” at the U. of Utah is live. Direct to BookLamp.org Our post from last week has background you might want to have before using BookLamp. […]
A 17 Item Roundup of News From and About Google and Google+
Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Reports, Roundup
|UPDATED (Monday, August 15, 2011): Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion; Patents Seen as a Leading Reason for Deal Time once again for another in our series of Google news roundups. We missed last week so this is going to be full of items in addition to several Google items we posted as soon as […]
Direct to Video: “Here’s What Normal People Really Think Of Google (via Business Insider) We’ve said it many times and we will say it again, although Google+ has been successful (very successful) to this point with early adopters and tech geeks, it in no way reflects what the non-geek user (aka “the masses”) think or […]
From The Charleston Advisor: Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing is interviewed for his views about EBSCO’s May 2011 acquisition of the H.W. Wilson Company. The interview covers topics such as the future of the H.W. Wilson Company and its various products, the future of the H.W. Wilson brand, plans […]