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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 100th Anniversary
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|Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 100th Anniversary March 25th is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. As we look back over a century of phenomenal improvements in fire and life protection, we know that this fire ushered in a new era in workplace safety and workers rights. Up until this time, the focus of the […]
Research Library Issues (#274) is Now Online
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|From the TOC: The Future of the US Research University David Shulenburger, Senior Fellow, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Dr. Shulenburger’s presentation was originally delivered at the Association of Research Libraries’ Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on October 14, 2010. To listen to audio from this presentation and access additional information, please visit http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/157mm-proceedings.shtml […]
Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
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|UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
New: Georgia History E-book Project
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|From a Digital Library Georgia Blog Post: The Digital Library of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press have collaborated to make important works on Georgia history available in a digital format. A list of titles is available from the University of Georgia Press website. Access to the digital editions is available through the Digital […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
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|From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]
From a Post on the Digital Library Center Blog (U. of Florida): The Council on Library and Information Resources’ Digital Library Federation program and centerNet are delighted to announce today their formal alliance. Established in 1995, the Digital Library Federation is a community of library practitioners engaged and committed to building and sustaining digital libraries […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
NLM 175: Upcoming Events and Milestones at National Library of Medicine
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|As many of you know the National Library of Medicine (the world’s largest library of library of the health sciences and collections) in Bethesda, MD is celebrating their 175th anniversary in 2011 with many events, a special web site, a couple of contests and more. An recent announcement reminded us of two special events taking […]
"Full Opening of University of Calgary Digital Library Delayed"
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|From a Calgary Herald Article by Sean Myers: The Taylor Family Digital Library was due to be open for student use by next week, but now must undergo an extensive refitting of the mechanical system that controls heating, cooling and humidity due to a design flaw. Only the first two floors are open, the upper […]
E-Journals: NLM Revises Indexing Policy for Medline; Seeks to Ensure Full Text Access Will Always Be Available For Indexed Articles
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|From the NLM Technical Bulletin: The revised NLM® MEDLINE® Policy on Indexing Electronic Journals is available at www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/policy/ejournals.html. This policy concerns electronic journals that are indexed in the MEDLINE/PubMed® database. The revised policy applies only to the MEDLINE indexing of electronic journals. As journal publishing evolves, the journal of record for many publications is the […]