MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2011
From IntoMobile: In an effort that seems designed to reach modern smartphone users, British Library is launching mobile apps for iOS and Android devices for the upcoming exhibition. Titled “Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination,” it shows illuminated manuscripts collected by the kings and queens of England between the 9th and 16th centuries. [Clip] The […]
ebrary Announces Downloading Options (iOS, Kindle, Other Devices) & Results of Offline Reading Survey
Government Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an ebrary News Release: ebrary today announced the ability to download e-books onto multiple devices including the Kindle, iPad, iPhone, laptops and other devices. Additionally, the company announced a dedicated mobile application is in development and slated to ship later this year. Downloading capabilities will be available at no extra cost to academic, corporate, […]
New Directory: Library Census Maps 1,000 Federal Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Government Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Resources
|From a Library of Congress Announcement: Profiles of U.S. federal libraries from around the world are now available online. Presented dynamically with an interactive mapping tool, the Federal Library Directory displays geographic and collections data from more than 1,000 libraries. This publicly available dataset identifies members of the federal library and information center community and […]
From Forbes.com Column by Tom Coughlin: The SNIA Long Term Retention working group has been working hard to develop a Self-Contained Information Retrieval Format (SIRF). The SIRF standard provides a logical container for a set of digital preservation objects and a catalog of those objects. Digital preservation objects can be any sort of digital file […]
Update: Here’s an Audio Recording (mp3) of the October 28, 2011 Board Meeting (via SLC Public Library Web Site) Includes statement from Beth Elder. From the Salt Lake Tribune: Saying it was time to remove herself from the “hot seat,” Beth Elder resigned Friday as director of Salt Lake City’s award-winning library system. Her immediate […]
Title: Leveraging User Diversity to Harvest Knowledge on the Social Web Authors Jeon-Hyung Kang (University of Southern California) Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California) Presented At The Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011) Accessed via arXiv Abstract Social web users are a very diverse group with varying interests, levels of expertise, enthusiasm, and […]
Amazon Updates Kindle For Mac App With Support for "Book Extras", Print Replica, and Your PDF Files
|We just noticed that the Kindle For Mac app has been updated with support for some new features. Here’s a List of What’s New in Version 1.8.1 (via iTunes App Store): Support for Lion, including Lion’s full-screen mode. Support for collections allows you to take control of your Kindle library and organize your books with […]
New From CLIR: Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Reports
|New Report: “Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report” Full Text (PDF) Full Text (HTML) Linked Data Survey From the CLIR Web Site: In June 2011, Stanford University hosted a group of librarians and technologists to examine issues and challenges surrounding the use of linked data for library applications. This report […]
Now Available Online: All Issues of Bibliography on Swiss History via National Library of Switzerland
Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|From the National Library of Switzerland Web Site: Now all issues of the Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) are available online. The BSH volumes 1913-1974 have been scanned, OCRd, structured and uploaded to the retro.seals.ch site under the heading “DDC-940: History of Europe”. The digitization was carried out with the agreement of the Swiss History […]
European Commission Recommendation: "Encouraging Digitisation of EU Culture to Help Boost Growth"
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From EUROPA: The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material. This is essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe’s creative industries. The digitised material should be made […]