MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2011
Will this service be the Facebook killer or at least a Facebook equalizer? Stay tuned. The new social networking service is named Google+ (Google Plus) and like always Danny Sullivan as an in-depth multimedia look on Search Engine Land. Cool! A lot of screen caps and video. Direct to SEL Overview Post: “Google’s Facebook Competitor, […]
New Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (Old Dominion University) Blog Post: There are many questions to ask about web archiving […]
American Library Association E-books Taskforce Continues Open Dialogue With HarperCollins
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Full Text of an ALA Announcement: The American Library Association (ALA) Chair Bonnie Tijerina today released the following statement, thanking HarperCollins for attending the taskforce’s business meeting during ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. The discussion followed HarperCollins’ February announcement of its current policy under which new titles licensed from library e-book vendors are restricted to […]
Technology working properly all of the time is one thing but communicating with users and fixing tech problems is another. Here’s the story. Barry Schwartz thanks us (you’re welcome) for alerting him to a problem with Google Docs Lists (that we think is now solved). You can read about it on Barry’s Search Engine Roundtable […]
LOCKSS Alliance Libraries Preserve 11,000 New Volumes In First Half Of 2011
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Publishing
|From the LOCKSS Website: In the first six months of 2011, participating LOCKSS Program libraries preserved content from major partner publishers such as PNAS, Springer, Emerald, and the JBJS. The LOCKSS Alliance provides a full management digital preservation program. Libraries use LOCKSS to build and preserve local collections for future scholars and publishers, thus separating […]
Statistics: "Daily Deluge of Digital Data Expected to Get Even Worse"
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|Resources From EMC.com (Sponsors of the Report) 1. Summary/News Release/Findings 2. Infographic: The Digital Universe Study 3. Infographic: Data Management Increase, Need for IT Workers From a San Francisco Chronicle/Bloomberg Article: A study released [on Monday] quantifies how quickly the digital universe is expanding. The world’s information is doubling every two years, with an astonishing […]
Preliminary Version: Transforming Libraries Portal (From American Libraries Association)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|Direct to Preliminary Version of ALA’s Transforming Libraries Portal. You can share feedback by using this contact page. Some resources are organized by library type (Public Libraries; School Libraries; and Academic Libraries). These pages contain a links to articles; books; conferences; general resources, tools, etc. that discuss library transformation issues. Other resources are organized by […]
The Dublin Core 2011 Conference is Scheduled to Take Place in The Hague, September 22-23. From the Dublin Core Web Site: The organizing committee of DC-2011 has published the preliminary program of the event. On Wednesday 21 September there will be a full day of Tutorials alongside a special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. […]
From an OCLC Announcement: Jay Jordan will retire as President and CEO of OCLC Online Computer Library Center on June 30, 2012. The announcement was made today by OCLC Board Chair Larry Alford at the OCLC President’s Luncheon during the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, Louisiana. “Jay Jordan has informed […]
Digitized Maps: David Rumsey Map Collection Adds Nearly 1700 Historic Maps and Images
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Public Libraries
|From a Rumsey Map Collection Blog Post: 1,676 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the online collection to 27,800 maps and images. Included in this addition are 666 images of Pocket Maps, a rare edition of Sanborn’s 1905 Atlas of San Francisco from the S.F. Public Library […]