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The Guardian published their annual list yesterday and it includes a number of people from outside the UK. MediaGuardian’s annual list to the most poweful in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, media business, advertising, marketing, and PR. It’s been a turbulent time in the media. But it’s not just the Murdochs on the move […]
California History: Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere Add Local History Resources
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|Images, postcards, material from a wine library, and more. From the California Digital Library: CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2010-2011 Local History Digital Resources […]
New Issue Alert: The Code4Lib Journal (14) is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Frontiers, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Released on July 25, 2011. Issue 14 contains 11 articles/books reviews/editorials. Here are abstracts and links. All articles are full text and free. Editorial Introduction: Prioritizing the Future, Collaborating in the Present, and Archiving the Past by Timothy M. McGeary This is an exciting time for libraries and technology, and libraries have the opportunity now […]
ALA maintains a calendar (via Google) to show dates of future promotions and events. We found a few events already listed for 2013 and 2014. Direct to “Calendar of American Library Association Promotions and Events” Events for the remainder of this year and next year are also available on this page found from ALA.org.
Updated Post: The Google eBook App is back online. You can grab a copy here. Changes? Enhancements? The page reads: “Minor enhancements and bug fixes.” Btw, what we mentioned below about Google not letting users know what was going on remains an issue. They could have done it a number of ways including making a […]
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: Data and Documents This page contains data and documents relating to civilian casualties of the conflict in Afghanistan. They were obtained by Science correspondent John Bohannon after embedding with military forces in Kabul and Kandahar in October 2010. All military data and documents were released voluntarily by the International Security Assistance […]
FDA, federal partners develop tools for food-emergency readiness The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and federal partners today released the Food Related Emergency Exercise Boxed (FREE-B) set, a Web-based collection of scenarios that will help government regulators, public health organizations and the food industry test their readiness for food-related emergencies, such as a human health […]
USDA: Invasive Species and Biodiversity Databases
Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News
|Invasive Species and Biodiversity Databases Describes databases available online related to invasive species as well as general biodiversity. See other sections for species specific information, expertise, and geographic based information: Aquatic Species Plants Animals Microbes Expertise Regional International The following are general databases for invasive species, pest management, and agricultural related databases: Invasive Species Pest […]
Company Names Matching in the Large Patents Dataset This paper addresses the name matching (duplicate detection) problem in the US patent dataset. It contains more then 400K unique company names spellings. In order to solve the matching problem we choose appropriate string similarity measure and clustering approach and estimate their parameters. Finally we apply them […]
Preprint: "Citation Analysis as a Tool to Measure the Impact of Individual Research Consultations"
|by Thomas L. Reinsfelder Source: College & Research Libraries (29 pages; PDF) Note: This article was accepted on June 13, 2011 and Scheduled to Appear in the March, 2012 Issue Direct to Complete Article (29 pages; PDF): From the Intro: It is not unusual for librarians to interact with undergraduates during the beginning stages of […]