MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2018
India: Indian Railways Plans to Digitize its Archive of About 25 Million Pages
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|From The Times of India: The Indian Railways has kick-started a massive effort to digitise its archives across the country that will cover about 25 million pages of railway history. As an initial step, 2.2 million pages of the archival material of the National Rail Museum (NRM) in New Delhi and Rail Museum at Tiruchirapalli […]
From the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, UK House of Commons: There are many potential threats to our democracy and our values. One such threat arises from what has been coined ‘fake news’, created for profit or other gain, disseminated through state-sponsored programmes, or spread through the deliberate distortion of facts, by groups with a particular […]
From CB Insights: Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right (supermarkets, banking, cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. The directory is organized into the following categories […]
From The Irish Times: Shortly before 10am, 40 people are waiting at the steps that lead to the Central Library in the Ilac Centre, Dublin. “Some mornings you’d think there’s a sale on,” says moustachioed library attendant Vincent Thomas a little later. [Clip] The Government also announced this week that it is going to spend €8 million to deliver […]
1. Library of Congress Awards $6.9 Million Contract to Qwest Government Services Inc. (CenturyLink) For Dark Fiber DWDM Connectivity (via FBO.gov) 2. ARL Fellows for Digital and Inclusive Excellence Selected for 2018–2019
National Wildfire Information in the Palm of Your Hand: GeoMAC Mapping Service From USGS Goes Mobile
|From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): The public can now access information about active wildfires across the country using a smartphone. The newly designed GeoMAC, a near real-time web mapping service hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey, is now available through any web browser compatible with mobile devices. “The newly mobile-optimized GeoMAC is easy to use […]
From Politico: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Friday requested Brett Kavanaugh’s records from his time as White House counsel without separate documents sought by Democrats, a sharply partisan turn in the escalating clash over vetting President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. [Clip] Hitting Democrats for an attempted “fishing expedition” on Kavanaugh, Grassley singled […]
From Public Lending Right/British Library: The latest annual data released today by the Public Lending Right (PLR) office shows which books and authors proved most popular with library borrowers during 2016-17. For the eleventh consecutive year prolific US thriller writer James Patterson was the most borrowed author from UK libraries. He has held this title […]
Herbert Van de Sompel is Joining DANS (Data Archiving and Network Services) in the Netherlands as Chief Innovation Officer
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|From a DANS (Data Archiving and Network Services) Announcement: We are proud to announce that information scientist Herbert van de Sompel will join DANS in November as Chief Innovation Officer Van de Sompel (1957) studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Ghent. He graduated in 2000 with a thesis on context-sensitive and dynamic […]
From the Civica: For the third year in a row, the 2018 Civica Libraries Index sees Australian and New Zealanders continuing to thirst for crime and thriller stories, with these titles dominating the list once again. However, people’s desire for trusted independent financial advice has resulted in Scott Pape’s “The Barefoot Investor” dominating the non-fiction category and […]