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From the EDUCAUSE Web Site: Gamification is the application of game elements in non-gaming situations, often to motivate or influence behavior. The rewards or the spirit of competition can spur students’ concentration and interest and lead to more effective learning. The use of gamification is wide-ranging in higher education, from extra-credit awards and in-class team […]
Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the award of 10 fellowships and 24 institutional grants totaling $3.9 million in the agencies’ ongoing Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program. This is the seventh round of their campaign […]
From the LC News Release: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Philip Levine as the Library’s 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012. Levine will take up his duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season with a reading of his work at the Coolidge Auditorium on […]
Rare Books: British Library Launches eBook Treasures Series With Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel
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|The launch of a major collection of digitized materials (upcoming releases listed below). From a BL News Release (With Multiple Screenshots to Download): The British Library has launched today a ground-breaking “eBook Treasures” series which will allow iPad users to download entire ancient manuscripts. Starting with Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel (1478-1518), users will […]
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: Less than eight months ago, OpenCorporates : The Open Database Of The Corporate World launched with the rather ambitious goal of creating a URL for every company in the world. Five months later, it had already reached 10 million companies. And now, barely 3 months after that, it has doubled that […]
"Is Vogue planning a 119-year digital archive?"
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|From the Los Angeles Times: Does Vogue magazine have a digital archive in the works — one would stretch all the way back to its original 1892 issue? Rumors say that’s exactly what the long-lived fashion magazine is up to. The blog Fashionista reads the tea leaves: Vogue editor Anna Wintour attending the Webbys in […]
From a News Release: Aptara announces the award of a 730,000 page digitization project from SAGE. Within 8 months, Aptara will transform a significant collection of legacy print titles into XML format for posting to SAGE’s eBook platform. Converting to the flexible digital format of XML gives SAGE the ability to easily repurpose their content […]
Montreal: "Jewish Public Library Turns a Page"
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|From the Montreal Gazette: The [Jewish Public] Library has been many things to many people since Yiddish-speaking immigrants founded it 97 years ago as a place to learn, to read and borrow books, gather to discuss them and meet their authors. Along the way it has grown considerably, developed a thriving children’s library, assumed an […]
From an Article by Alison Flood (via The Guardian): Until now. I come back from holiday to learn about one of the most exciting developments for ages: from Arthur C Clarke to Philip K Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley to Robert Silverberg, Gollancz is making thousands of classic out-of-print SFF titles available as ebooks. The SF […]
Reminder: C-SPAN's Library of Congress Documentary Debuts on Monday, Watch Several Clips Now
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|UPDATE: The complete Library of Congress documentary including a text transcript is now available in the C-SPAN Video Library. Here’s a direct link to the program. The program will premiere at 8pm ET on July 18, 2011 on C-SPAN. The documentary runs 90 minutes and we re-air at 11pm ET/8pm ET. The program will likely […]