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Via London (Ontario) Metro News: A plea to ban pornography at city libraries will be considered next month. Josh Morgan, chairman of the library board, said a request that the library install porn filters on computers will be discussed during the board’s annual review of its Internet policy. [Clip] Others at Thursday’s meeting suggested a […]
National Library of South Africa & 15 South African Academic Libraries Choose WorldCat Local
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|Via Library Technology Guides: The National Library of South Africa and 15 of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions choose WorldCat Local OCLC and Sabinet, OCLC’s partner in South Africa, have signed an agreement to provide WorldCat Local, OCLC’s discovery service, as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources […]
Now Available: Presentations From the Recent Digital Preservation Summit 2011 in Hamburg (All Presentations in English)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation
|The Digital Preservation Summit 20011 took place on October 19-20 in Hamburg, Germany. The event was titled, “Getting Ready for Digital Preservation.” 22 presentations (all of them are available in English) and you can access all of them using this page. Here are direct links to a few of the presentations. Inge Angevaare (Dutch Digital […]
Published by UNESCO. From UN Pulse: The 2011 Global Education Digest, released today by the Institute for Statistics of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), says there are only enough seats for 36 per cent of children who want to enrol in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. The report notes that the global […]
From the IMPACT Web Site: On 25 October 2011 Mr. Khalil Rouhana, Director for digital content and cognitive systems in DG Information Society and Media at the European Commission officially launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence at the IMPACT final conference in London. The IMPACT Centre of Competence aims to make digitisation of historical printed […]
Reference Resource Update: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Has a New Look
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|Via Newswise: Launched in 1998 as an online publication after more than 10 years in print, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History’s home, http://ech.case.edu, has added many new articles but has kept a similar look. That all changed when the encyclopedia, run by Case Western Reserve University’s Department of History and the Western Reserve Historical Society, […]
From a U. of Rochester Announcement: When Edward Atwater, M.D.,’50 boarded a subway car on Boston’s Red Line in the early 90s he found himself staring at a poster unlike any he had seen before. It showed two hands, a condom wrapper, and text reading Prevent AIDS. Use One. Intrigued by what he saw, Atwater […]
From a PBS Announcement: PBS has announced that STEVE JOBS – ONE LAST THING has been added to the primetime lineup following the premiere episode of NOVA “The Fabric of the Cosmos.” Through interviews with colleagues and others who knew the creative genius whose innovations transformed the lives of millions, ONE LAST THING provides an […]
Morning Highlights From Books in Browsers (Day One): "The Web Browser and the Future of Publishing"
|Two Highlights from the Opening Sessions of BiB 2011 in a brief article by Jenn Webb that appears on O’Reilly Radar and Forbes.com: Bill McCoy (@billmccoy), executive director of the International Digital Publishing Forum, talked about some fundamental business issues of EPUB3. He said there’s no intrinsic value to standards — their only purpose is […]
From a Washington City Paper Article: “The Library of Congress Turns the Light Out on Darkrooms” From the end of the Great Depression until this year, anyone could order a silver gelatin reproduction, printed from negatives, of any image in the Library of Congress’ collection, most recently for about $100 a print. Not any more: […]