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NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standards for Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing
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|From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization voting members have approved a new work item to develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in digital texts and shared with others, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or mutable. The ability to accurately refer to a […]
“Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username” is a new report by Jonathan Mayer, a Student Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School. The report focuses on web information leakage (via cookies) and how it effects online privacy. You can watch Mayer’s presentation (it begins at about 1:14:00 […]
In a new Publisher’s Weekly Blog Post, Peter Brantley talks about enhanced e-books. From the Post: I think it is inevitable that over the next few years we’ll see most non-fiction works move into this form of cross-media narrative. Peter Osnos observes in The Atlantic that “What is essential to the process of producing an […]
From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: UNODC has developed a human trafficking case law database to provide immediate, public access to officially documented instances of this crime. The database contains details on victims’ and perpetrators’ nationalities, trafficking routes, verdicts and other information related to prosecuted cases from across the world. In doing […]
eBooks: U. of Georgia: "University Library Waiting for More Data in Judgment of Students’ Digital Preferences"
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|From The Red and Black (Ind. Student Paper): University Head of Access Services Viki Timian said there are some signs that print circulation may be down at the University. But changes have been minimal. From 2009 to 2010, checkout numbers for undergraduate leisure reading dropped by 83 books, but graduate checkout numbers rose and the […]
The Library as eBookseller: "Entire eBook Catalogs to be Available for Discovery, Sampling & Links to Booksellers…From the Public Library"
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|From an OverDrive News Release: A key part of OverDrive’s WIN platform enhancements (“Want It Now”) for its network of 15,000 libraries worldwide, the WIN Catalog will maximize discovery and potential sell-through by providing samples and links to national and local booksellers for library website visitors that discover a title and “Want It Now.” The […]
From the Daily Tar Heel: UNC’s Digital Innovation Lab, a part of UNC’s $125 million effort to spur innovation, launched Monday, aimed at sparking collaboration in the digital humanities. The virtual lab features projects and resources that can be easily used and accessed by large audiences. It will encourage the creation of public projects that […]
From a BBC R&D Blog Post: As John Zubrzycki mentioned yesterday, this project is running as part of BBC R&D’s Archive Research Section, is developing new ways in which to open up the BBC’s archive to the public. The aim of the project is to allow people to search and browse the archive to find content […]
The mobile search, find, and and view full image results site is online as a “soft release” (looking for bugs and other issues). At the present time you’ll need to use the m.hathitrust.org URL to use the database. Eventually, users will be redirected to the mobile site when accessing using a mobile browser. The site […]
New Issue Alert: Synergy (Issue 7): News from ARL Diversity Programs
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|New from ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 7 of Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs. The newsletter provides an opportunity for former ARL diversity programs participants to share information about key issues and emerging trends in the workplace. 2000–2001 Leadership and Career Development (LCDP) Fellow, Angela Lee, discusses current trends […]