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"A Find of a Lifetime: Jefferson Books Quest Ends at Washington University"
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|From a Monticello.org/Thomas Jefferson Foundation Blog Post by Ann Lucas Birle and Endrina Tay: Last week, we had the privilege of being the first Monticello staff to set eyes on the more than 70 Jefferson books that we recently discovered at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). We flew to St. Louis early on Valentine’s […]
Another Freebie from MIT Press: A "Video Book" About Using YouTube as an Educational Tool
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|Last week we posted about this book available to download for free from MIT. This week news of the availability of the first online-only book from MIT Press. From a COHE Article: …MIT Press [has] released Learning From YouTube, a free “video book” that was written by Ms. Juhasz and grew out of her class. […]
How public is public data? With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access standards could emerge A recently settled federal court case out in Utah may affect the way news organizations and citizens get access to crime data. Public Engines, a company that publishes crime statistics for law enforcement agencies, sued ReportSee, which provides similar services, […]
Abu Dhabi National Library Joins World Digital Library
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|From an Article in The National (Abu Dhabi): To the outside world, familiar with the UAE for its modern skyscrapers and luxury hotels, rare colour snapshots of the capital taken almost 50 years ago provide a valuable insight into the country’s past. Until now those images, as well as hundreds of other historical documents, could […]
Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration. It covers 202 […]
From a CNET Article by David Carnoy: Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, “Knife Music,” to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying–good or bad–about the thing. Over the months I’ve received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to […]
The Internet Archive in San Francisco will host the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving [PDA] Conference on February 24-25. INFOdocket will not be in attendence but we plan to aggregate as much content as possible from the conference on INFOdocket. Brewster Kahle, Ted Nelson, Gordon Bell, and Clifford Lynch are listed as speakers along with many others. […]
Authors from University of Illinois and Stanford Univerysity: Siddharth Taduri, Hang Yu, Gloria Lau, Kincho Law and Jay P. Kesan From the Abstract (via SSRN): In recent years, there has been a massive growth of regulatory and related information available online. This information is distributed across many different domains creating a problem for accessing and […]
From WSMV-TV (via MSNBC): A parent’s complaint about an AIDS memoir in the library at Cheatham Middle School [in Ashland City, TN] led to the book being pulled from general circulation. The Cheatham County School Board voted to change its policy on library books to allow the director of schools to remove a book on […]
History + Geography: A New Online Resource Will Launch Next Week at National Library of Scotland
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|From the Visualising Urban Geographies Project Web Site: The new online resources [set to debut next week] were created by the Visualising Urban Geographies project. This collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland has brought together sets of historical maps, census and address-based information to allow new ways of understanding […]