MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2011
From the Wikimedia Foundation Web Site: The strategic plan is the culmination of a collaborative process undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation and the global community of Wikimedia project volunteers through 2009 and 2010. The process aimed to understand and address the critical challenges and opportunities facing the Wikimedia movement through 2015. It has culminated in […]
From a Wired Campus (Chronicle of Higher Ed.) Article By Jeff Young: What if a reference librarian was assigned to a college course, to be on hand to suggest books, online links, or other resources based on class discussion? A media-studies course at Baylor University tried the idea last semester, with an “embedded librarian” following […]
It's Always Something: "Publishing Industry Forces OverDrive and Other Library eBook Vendors to Take a Giant Step Back" (via Librarian by Day)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From a Librarian by Day Blog Post: Yesterday I received an email from OverDrive with an attachment titles OverDrive Partner Library Update from Steve Potash [CEO over OverDrive], I glanced at it and filed it away in my to-read pile for a later date (which honestly means I may never have gotten to it). This […]
Start-up Room 77 lets you see your hotel-room view before you arrive Travelers: Ever walk into your hotel room and let out a sigh of extreme sadness when you saw the view of an ugly concrete parking garage? If you answered yes, then you’ll definitely want to know about Room 77, which publicly launches its […]
Silicon Alley Insider reports that USA.gov (the official federal government portal) has gone live with a blog using Tumblr in addition to their Gov Gab blog. Other Places To Find USA.gov + Facebook + Twitter + YouTube + Mobile See Also: Directory of U.S. Government Blogs See Also: Directory of U.S. Government RSS Feeds Note: The State of Rhode Island […]
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Reports, Resources
|The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
David Rothman On a National Digital-Library System
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|David Rothman has been talking and writing about e-books, digital libraries, and related topics for a long time. He was the founder of TeleRead, a site that focuses on ebooks, ereaders, and related topics that’s now run Paul Biba. Rothman is also a cofounder (with Tom Peters) of the new, LibraryCity.org. Here’s a bit of background […]
From an Administrative Office of the U.S. Court Announcement: A recently published pocket guide for federal judges focuses on the occasional need to seal court records and proceedings. Published by the Federal Judicial Center, the 22-page pocket guide draws on the voluminous case law to discuss the process courts use to keep some of the proceedings […]
Super searcher, super librarian, and super sleuth Greg Notess provides a screencast about how to locate the new spot where Bing has placed the link to access cached copies of pages. The screencast is embedded on Greg’s Search Engine Showdown blog.
From An eMarketer Article: As Facebook continues to solidify its role as the world’s top social networking site, eMarketer estimates that more than half of internet users in the US were logging on to the site at least monthly as of the end of 2010. This year, eMarketer forecasts, 132.5 million US web users will […]