MORE 'AWARDS' POSTS
From Nathan Yau’s Wonderful “Flowing Data” Blog: The annual Malofiej awards, for top graphics in journalism, were handed out last week. The best map of 2010 went to National Geographic for the World of Rivers. Every river system in the world was mapped and scaled by annual discharge. [Clip] Showing everything doesn’t always work with […]
Canadian Library Association: Stephen Abram Presented With the 2011 Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
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We can’t think of a more deserving person than Stephen for this award. Those who know him realized a long time ago that service to librarianship and Stephen Abram are synonymous. From meeting with info pros around the world to mentoring new librarians Stephen does whatever is needed whenever and wherever it’s needed. On top […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
Zotero, one of our favorite and most used online research tools (citation management, locally archiving web pages, and much more) has just released an update. If you’ve never used Zotero you might want to take a look. This powerful tool is also free but it’s an example of a resource that we would very likely […]
Here are a few resources that might be of interest: 1. FOI Day Reading List from the NYPL and Materials from the First Amendment Center (March 10, 2011) 2. Information About ALA’s Madison Awards that Will Be Presented Today & List of Past Winners 3. Freedom of Information Act Resources (via ALA) 5. FOIA.gov This […]
Associate Univesity Librarian (UMich) and Hathi Trust Executive Director John Wilkin Named LITA/Library Hi Tech Award Winner
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Congrats to John Wilkin! From an ALA Announcement: John Wilkin has been named the winner of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) sponsor the award. The award recognizes outstanding persons or institutions for their long-term contributions […]
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Cohen, Winner of the 2011 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
| Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
Congrats, kudos, and all the rest to Dr. Cohen on winning the 2011 Kilgour Award. LITA is pleased to announce the 2011 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, Daniel J. Cohen. Dr. Cohen is an associate professor of history and art history at George Mason University and […]
Congratulations to Karen Coyle! Recipient of 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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UPDATE: The full text of the report mentioned below is available online (free). Direct to: Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata (January, 2010) Congrats and Kudos to Karen! From an ALA Announcement: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Outstanding Publication Award recipient for 2011 is Karen Coyle for her “Understanding the […]
Recently Released: R&D Dashboard (U.S. Federal Investments in Science and Research)
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From the Dashboard Web Site (Interactive Resource) From the In response to the eGov Act of 2002 Section 207, the R&D Dashboard beta web site provides an initial look at U.S. Federal Investments in Science and Research from two agencies; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) from years 2000-2009. […]
From a Semanticweb.com Blog Post The BBC has published a new ontology which they are calling, simply, the Sport Ontology: “The Sport Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events.” The ontology should allow data to be published about the structure of sports tournaments, competition, disciplines that an event involves, […]
