MORE 'CONFERENCE-PRESENTATIONS' POSTS
Digitization: Library and Archives Canada Contributing More Video to CPAC’s New Digital Archive of Parliamentary Proceedings
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News
|From LAC: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has already digitized 4,000 hours of Parliamentary proceedings recordings to contribute to The CPAC Digital Archive: Rewinding the Public Record, an initiative by the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC). As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, CPAC makes available, through its website, thousands of archival hours of prime […]
New Grant Subsidizes Access to Library Resources for Michigan Entrepreneurs
Academic Libraries, Conference Presentations, Funding, Libraries, News
|From MLibrary News: A new grant will enable Michigan entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses to more readily obtain critical information from journals, conference proceedings, books, and other research library holdings at greatly reduced prices. Michigan Corporate Relations Network (MCRN) and Michigan Information Transfer Source (MITS) have teamed up to provide standard articles or book loans […]
Project Gutenberg Hits Major Milestone: 40,000 Titles! + Launch of Gutenberg Self-Publishing Portal
Conference Presentations, Lecture, Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports
|Congrats to all of those people involved with Project Gutenberg on reaching the 40K title milestone! From PG News: With little fanfare, Project Gutenberg reached #40000 in its eBook series; Extinct Birds: an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times: that is, within […]
New Resource to Help Discover Data Sets: Thomson Reuters Begins Previewing Data Citation Index
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, News, Open Access
|Thomson Reuters will be providing preview of Data Citation Index (at ALA. Here’s a bit of info about the product that’s scheduled to launch later in 2012. Data Citation Index will be part of the Web of Knowledge platform. …Data Citation Index, an upcoming research resource within the Web of Knowledge [is designed] to facilitate […]
Work on NYPL Historical GIS Project Proceeding Faster than Planned, More than 7700 Maps Already Online
Conference Presentations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Public Libraries
|Kudos and Congrats to the NYPL GIS project team! From a NYPL Blog Post by Matt Knutzen: In 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division of the New York Public Library a three year grant, the New York City Historical Geographic Information Systems project, building […]
New Report and Case Studies from CLIR: “One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences”
Conference Presentations, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Libraries
|Title One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge Authors Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander Source Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Abstract This report culminates two years of work by CLIR […]
Social Search Research: “SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation”
Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The following paper appears in the proceedings of ICWSM 2012 (International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)) that began today in Dublin, Ireland. Title SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation Authors Brent Hecht Northwestern U. Jaime Teevan Microsoft Research Meredith Ringel Morris Microsoft Research Dan Liebling Microsoft Research Source In Proceedings: ICWSM […]
Article: “From Plato to Michael Hart: The Long Journey of E-books”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
|Title From Plato to Michael Hart: The Long Journey of E-books Author P. Divakar Source DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (32.2; 2012) Abstract Genesis of e-books and the connected social implications have a long bearing on the dissemination of knowledge. The strides in information technology have ushered in new content formats and reading […]
Roundup: GBS: Google And Authors Guild Face Off in Court
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Conference Presentations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Roundup
|UPDATE (May 4, 2011): New York Law School professor and noted GBS expert, James Grimmelmann has posted an in-depth summary along with some commentary about Thursday’s GBS hearing on The Laboratorium (his blog). 1. Google Says Individuals, Not Authors Guild Has Standing In Books Case (via WSJ) Google Inc. presented Judge Denny Chin with an interesting […]
From a LC News Release: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today [recently] announced his selection of Suzanne M. Barnett as the new chief copyright royalty judge and head of the Copyright Royalty Board. Barnett is a superior court judge of King County in Seattle, Washington. She was first elected to the court in 1996. […]