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Letter: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Strongly Supports ARL’s Position on Recent GPO Decisions
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|ASERL Strongly Supports ARL’s Position on Recent GPO Decisions (1 page; PDF) From the Letter: ASERL members support free and open public access to information contained in FDLP collections. ASERL believes that the future of the FDLP lies in collaborative projects, including shared and multi-state Regionals and new models for digitization and preservation, such as […]
New from the U.S. Census. This brief, based on the 2009 and 2010 American Community Survey results, compares poverty rates for the nation, states and large metropolitan statistical areas. The report also summarizes the distributions of income-to-poverty ratios for states and the District of Columbia. Direct to Full Text: Poverty: 2009 and 2010 (7 pages; […]
Debuts Friday: Digitization: "Ann Arbor Library Set to Publish 'Old News'"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Resources
|From the Ann Arbor Chronicle: On Friday, the public will get online access to 18,000 articles, 3,000 photos, and an index with over 160,000 names – the initial phase of a massive digitization of The Ann Arbor News archives being undertaken by the library.[Clip] Andrew MacLaren – one of the librarians who’s been working on […]
Yet another new service (this one is low cost) from the award winning, essential, and wonderful (yes, we like it a LOT) C-SPAN Video Library. From the Video Library Blog: The C-SPAN Video Library is now offering MP3 audio files of all programs that are for sale. These files are 99 cents per program and […]
From VentureBeat: …Google has turned its focus toward making Presentations more than a lackluster alternative to PowerPoint. The company tackled the aesthetic usability of Presentations with this latest slew of 50 updates… [Clip] In order to try out the [new] features Google is unveiling, go to your documents, select settings, click the Editing tab and […]
From The Open Notebook (The Story Behind the Best Science Stories) To tell a compelling story to readers, you first need to sell it to an editor. This database contains dozens of successful feature pitches to a wide range of publications, each with a link to the corresponding published story, and many with additional annotations […]
From the Chicago Tribune: Illinois patients can now research their doctors using an online database the state launched Wednesday. The idea is to take the guesswork out of choosing a doctor by allowing easier access to information about the state’s 46,000 licensed physicians and surgeons. The database can be accessed through the Department of Financial […]
From the AP: A New Jersey university will be the new home for nearly 15,000 documents associated with Bruce Springsteen. Books, concert programs, magazines and newspaper articles formerly kept at the Asbury Park Public Library will be moved to Monmouth University in West Long Branch on Nov. 1. The material has outgrown the library, which […]
From the EFF: Amazon recently announced that the new Kindle Fire tablet will ship with a brand new browser called Silk. The Silk browser works in “cloud acceleration” mode by routing most webpage requests through servers controlled by Amazon. The idea is to capitalize on Amazon’s powerful AWS cloud servers to parallelize and hence speed […]
UPDATE: Full Text of Complaint (13 pages; PDF) From Media Post: An actress is suing Amazon for allegedly using information from her credit card to discover her true date of birth and append it to her public Internet Movie Database listing. The actress, who filed suit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, says in her complaint […]