MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2012
Josh Tauberer, founder/developer of the wonderful GovTrack.us bill tracking tool has posted an update of new/updated features that continue to extend the value of this already essential online research resource well beyond bill tracking. Here’s a look at some recent updates via a new GovTrack.us. blog post. Congressional District Maps now include redistricting maps for […]
From The Register: Australia will publish images captured by soon-to-launch satellite Landsat 8 online, in close to real time, for free. Landsat 8 will launch in early 2013 and is expected to be fully operational by May or June of that year. Once the bird begins beaming back images, Geoscience Australia (GA) will publish them […]
From Channel NewsAsia: Having mobile library carts to provide jobs for mature workers – that’s the latest initiative by the North East Community Development Council and National Library Board (NLB). 59-year-old William Khoo is one resident in the North East district who has gone for the librarians-to-be briefings. He now mans one of the mobile […]
From an Ancestry.com Blog Post: Looking for relatives in Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah? We’ve just released fully-searchable indexes for all 12 states. And 26 other states are ready to search. And remember, if the state you’re waiting for isn’t indexed yet, you […]
Awesome, wow, and kudos to Sunlight Labs. From the Sunlight Labs Blog: Wonder what the Open States team has been working on since we finished our initial goal of providing information for all 50 states back in March? As promised, we’ve been focusing on a new OpenStates.org and expanding our API to support full text […]
From the Canadian Library Association: The Canadian Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Advisory Committee has released the results of its annual survey of challenges to library resources and policies in Canada for 2011. For the first time in six years of the survey, an entire genre of resources – graphic novels – was challenged for removal […]
A three minute video report (in English) from German television (Deutsche Welle) takes a look at 100 years at the German National Library. Blurb The German National Library was founded one hundred years ago this year. It has collected everything that has been published in the German language since 1913, from pulp fiction to sheet […]
In addition to compiling and editing infoDOCKET, I’m a contributing editor at Search Engine Land. Earlier today on SEL I posted a roundup of web resources that provide a wide-range facts, stats, links, and other info about the the 2012 Olympics as well as previous games. My goal was to create a small collection (far […]
Direct to Database From the About Page: Under the sponsorship of The Bibliographical Society of London in conjunction with the University of Toronto Library, the British Armorial Binding database brings to fruition almost half a century of endeavour. Its purpose is to create a comprehensive catalogue of all the coats of arms, crests, and other […]
Columbia University Libraries Acquires Ballantine Books Archive
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|From Columbia University Libraries: Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce Betty Ballantine’s gift of a collection of books and papers relating the work of her late husband Ian and her in their long and distinguished careers in publishing. The gift includes a nearly complete run of Penguin titles in pristine […]