MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2011
A two page PDF made available online by the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The names/pronunciations are sourced to Intellipedia, a “closed” wiki-based encyclopedia open to members of the U.S. intelligence community. Direct to PDF
From an ACRL Insider Post by David Free: Complete backfiles of Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship (RBML), the predecessor of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, are now available on the publication Web site. ACRL received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to assist in making volumes 1-12 of […]
Direct to Infographic Info for 50 states and DC. The following info is provided for states with medical marijuana laws: How Laws Protect Patients Documentation Required Accepted Ailments When Legislation Passed, % of Votes For States Considering Legislation Summary and Current Status of Legislation Direct to Infographic
By Maureen McGrath Source: Journal of the Library Administration and Management Section New York Library Association; Spring 2010-2011; Vol. 7, No. 2 From the Abstract: (Page 29 of PDF) Trough first-person interviews, this article describes the process and experience of switching over a library’s non-fiction collections to a more BISAC-like system and presents the problems […]
"New Linked Data for Libraries"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From a SemanticWeb.com Posting: A new blog post discusses some “big news for folks interested in Library Linked Data: CrossRef has made the metadata for 46 million Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) available as Linked Data. DOIs are heavily used in the publishing space to uniquely identify electronic documents (largely scholarly journal articles). CrossRef is a […]
"Google Can't Be Trusted With Our Books"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From an Article by Simon Barron in The Guardian: Google announced last week that it would be deleting the content of the Google Videos archive. After a public outcry, it said it would work on saving all the video content and making it available elsewhere. In this instance, the public managed to change Google’s mind […]
HathiTrust: Audio/Video/Slides From Two Recent Presentations By Members of the HathiTrust Team Now Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries
|Presentation No. 1: Lunch and Learn: John Wilkin, Jon Stroop, and Marvin Bielawski on HathiTrust (Princeton U.) Title: “What is HathiTrust and How Can it Make a Difference? Direct to Slides ||| Direct to Audio From a Summary Article: John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at […]
Word that bookmark sharing site Delicious has been sold by Yahoo and acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube. Their new company is named AVOS. Yahoo will continue to operate Delicious until approx. July 2011. Once the transition period ends data will be moved to new Delicious owner (aka their servers) […]
Word from the Andrew Weber at the Law Library of Congress that they now have a second Twitter stream. Say hello to @THOMASdotgov where you’ll find updates from THOMAS, the legislative info system provided by the Library of Congress. See Also: “Tweeting THOMAS and Connecting with Congress” (August 2010)
From AFP (via The Straits Times): The Moscow film company behind some of the greatest classics of Soviet cinema on Wednesday said it had agreed to make dozens of its best-known movies freely available on YouTube. The agreement between Mosfilm and YouTube means that an initial batch of 50 films that still have legendary status […]