MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2011
From a California Watch Report: Driven by dramatic budget cuts that will shutter four campus libraries, staffers at UC San Diego are removing roughly 150,000 books and journals from their collections by summer’s end – selling volumes to the highest bidder or donating them. If UCSD students or researchers want to check out the selected […]
From The Guardian: The store has been built on a nuclear bunker site deep in the Warwickshire countryside and will be capable of holding more than 450,000 cans of the nation’s film – everything from Hitchcock to Ealing to Carry On. Robin Baker, head curator of the BFI national archive, said it was an important […]
OverDrive Releases List of Top 25 Most Popular Titles in Their Project Gutenberg Collection (U.S. Only)
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|From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Many of OverDrive’s partner library sites contain a link to the Gutenberg titles currently being offered, and from this we are able to track what titles are most popular among the Gutenberg digital library. The list varies from the historically popular Bible to the controversially informative satire A Modest […]
From an Article by John Geddes on Macleans.ca: Yet top Canadian librarians do not see the Toronto scrap as a sign that the international malaise has arrived here. They point to upbeat developments in other Canadian cities. Just when Atwood was launching her Twitter war with Ford in late July, Calgary’s city council voted to […]
IARPA Announces New Research Program The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced today a new research program to develop and test novel methods to assist intelligence analysts in anticipating significant societal events. The Open Source Indicators Program (OSI) will focus on events that include […]
From Mashable: Google+ was meant to be an identity service, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend, shedding some light on Google’s reasoning behind Google+’s controversial real-name policy. Google’s requirement that members of its social layer, Google+, use only their real names has been a point of contention for several weeks — especially for people […]
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education By Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart, Kathleen Moore Report Also Available in PDF (29 Pages) Below is a summary of key findings: The Value of Online Learning. The public and college presidents differ over the educational value of online courses. Only 29% of the public says online courses offer an […]
From a News Release: George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves the photo-tagging and cataloging of more than 400,000 […]
Kudos to the the R&D Team at comScore. Superb work! You can take a look at what they call the Internet Seisnometer along with other materials here.
These images were taken at approx. 7:30 am today by the NOAA GOES-13 satellite as Hurricane Irene makes landfall near Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Visible Satellite Image Infrared Satellite Image More Hurricane Irene Satellite Images (as they Become Available) Direct from NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab