MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011
From USCourts.gov: More than 160,000 new accounts in the federal judiciary’s Public Access to Electronic Court Records (PACER) service were established in fiscal year 2011. That’s an average of more than 3,000 new accounts each week. [Clip] The PACER service center, located in San Antonio, responded to about 165,000 telephone calls and about 42,000 emails […]
From the Greenpoint Reporter: The Crime and Safety Report, located at DNAinfo.com, is the first of its kind, said one of the site’s creators, Murray Weiss. It includes interactive features, specific details and numbers by neighborhood, allows users to compare statistics between neighborhoods and boroughs, and provides stories tailored for each area. After discussing plans […]
From the U. of Michigan Public Affairs Office. Eleven questions and answers about book digitization at the school focusing on orphan works. Here’s one question and answer. Q: Has the lawsuit altered the university’s digitization efforts or the Orphan Works Project? A: No. We continue to digitize the works in our collection, and we continue […]
Conf. Paper: "Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Publishing
|Download Full Text Paper (13 pages; PDF) via SSRN Title: Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication” Authors: Nicholas W. Jankowski, Clifford Tatum, Zuotian Tatum, Andrea Scharnhorst Affiliation: e-Humanities Group Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam Abstract: Enhancing scholarly publication involves presentation in a Web […]
From the National Diet Library Newsletter: Facing the almost-full stacks and the change of social environment surrounding children’s reading, the International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) has long reviewed its policy on service improvement and necessary facility upgrade based on the Report of the Board of Inquiry on Facilities for Children’s Books in the National […]
From the Federal Depository Library Program Web Site: As part of the U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) ongoing efforts to expand the Federal database collection in MetaLib, users can now simultaneously search the Federal Digital System (FDsys) and the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) through a single search box in MetaLib via the new […]
Online Civil War Era National Cemeteries Travel Itinerary Launched by the National Park Service Established out of necessity during the Civil War, national cemeteries have evolved from simple burial grounds to national memorials honoring all those who serve. A new online Civil War Era National Cemeteries travel itinerary,developed by the National Park Service and the […]
The Amazon “Silk” Browser will be exclusive to the Kindle Fire. From the New Amazon Silk Blog: “Instead of a device-siloed software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-architecture. All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a web page, […]
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: This annual factbook contains more than 1,400 tables of social, political and economic facts about our nation and the world. Among the broad topics covered are marriage and divorce, health, education, law enforcement, national security, social insurance, business, science and technology, agriculture, natural resources, energy, information and communications, banking and […]
UPDATE: Here’s an Interesting “Reference” Feature Mentioned in the Official Product Launch Announcement: Amazon invented X-Ray, a new feature that lets customers explore the “bones of the book.” With a single tap, readers can see all the passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as […]