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From the People’s Daily: On July 13, 79-year-old Yang Liangcai and several colleagues carefully selected several yellowed books and documents from huge piles of cardboard boxes in a document room of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. “These paper originals will be sorted, scanned and then made available online,” Yang said. [Clip] The […]
Direct to Project MUSE Beta Web Site Browse by Research Area Browse by Title Browse by Publisher Search Free samples of both complete books and book chapters are available. You do not need a Muse login/password to access and read. Access to journals using the beta interface does require a login/password to read the fulltext. […]
Pet Statistics Sixty-two percent of U.S. households, or about 72.9 million families, own a pet, according to the 2011-2012 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association (APPA). This is up from 56 percent of U.S. households in 1988, the first year the survey was conducted. Includes charts: NUMBER OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS […]
NOAA — Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Reports
|Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary (PDF) This bibliography attempts to list all of the published research and expert commentary that has resulted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, technical reports released by scientific agencies and institutions, and editorials published in peer-reviewed […]
Note: A congrats to AP librarian/researcher/writer, Randy Herschchaft who recevied a byline for his work on this report. From the Associated Press: Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that […]
From the Register-Guardian (Eugene, OR): Professional historians and amateur history buffs — or folks simply wanting to research their family tree — now can search digitally more than 75 years worth of archived Oregon newspapers through a new University of Oregon website. With the Historic Oregon Newspapers archive, researchers no longer have to head for […]
A Look at the Rare Books Collection at the National Library of Singapore
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From TODAYonline: High above Singapore’s Central Business District, there is a secret room. With virtual anonymity it stands over the heads of the unsuspecting public below, preoccupied as they pound up and down the busy streets. I scan a bustling Victoria Street but none of the office workers who race past the futuristic National Library […]
Montreal: "Jewish Public Library Turns a Page"
Awards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From the Montreal Gazette: The [Jewish Public] Library has been many things to many people since Yiddish-speaking immigrants founded it 97 years ago as a place to learn, to read and borrow books, gather to discuss them and meet their authors. Along the way it has grown considerably, developed a thriving children’s library, assumed an […]
Follow Up Study: “Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning” Auhors: Mika Ayenson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Dietrich James Wambach, University of Wyoming Ashkan Soltani, University of California, Berkeley – School of Information Nathan Good, Good Research Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for […]
From the From a Conversition Blog: First, the standard Conversition methodologies were applied including collecting thousands of comments about Google+, Google Hangouts, and Google Circles from across the internet. Whether the comments were written within the Twitter, Facebook, or Google networks, or from thousands of other forums, blogs, and websites, a wide sample of opinions […]