MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2011
UK: "British Library Creates a 'National Memory' With Digital Newspaper Archive"
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|From The Guardian: “It’s an absolute fact. The history of the newspaper publishing industry is the history of failure,” says Ed King, the charismatic head of the British Library‘s newspaper collection. King paints a bleak picture – but he is overseeing the library’s ambitious attempt to make millions of pages of yesterday’s chip paper available […]
From Techvibes: In Canada, there are 15,000,000 active users (logging in once per month or more) and 9,000,000 who log in every day—this, with only 34,000,000 people in the entire country. These Canadians spend an average of over 400 minutes, or 7 hours, per month on Facebook, and have the highest average number of friends […]
Michael Geist writes that the recently released annual report by the Canadian Association of Learned Journals shows, “25 percent [of learned journals] are fully open access and an additional 39 percent have a ‘moving wall’ for open access.” Access the Canadian Association of Learned Journals Annual Report 2010-2011 (PDF) Hat Tip and Thanks: Open Access […]
From The Telegraph: The library is changing. The new library building may lack the charm of the old one, but technology and recent acquisitions have made it a friendlier place for the researcher. Members may download forms from the website, and each new member is presented with a smart reader’s guide. If accessing the texts […]
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land has the screenshots and details about this new feature. Here’s what the timelines of @ALALibrary and @OCLC look like at this moment.
How many G-20 countries make CRS-like reports available to the public? The United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) recently released the World e-Parliament Report 2010. The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, is based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments conducted by the Global Centre […]
A busy week for the Chronicling America team at LC. First, we learned of the database continuing to expand. CA is now home to 3.7 million digitized and indexed newspaper pages. Today’s News? A New UI and New Features. The big changes discussed below provide a big improvement vs. what was available prior to the […]
From a Moscow Times Article: U.S. broadcaster CNN expressed bewilderment Tuesday over the appearance of a web site bearing its iconic red logo and poorly translated articles in Russian. The web site, Cnnrussia.ru, is attracting thousands of visitors a day and sponsors Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal communities as well. CNN Moscow bureau chief Maxim Tkachenko said the broadcaster does not have a Russian-language web site. […]
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