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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 […]
Q&A Interview With Harvard University Librarian, Dr. Robert Darnton, About National Digital Public Library
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Here’s are three questions and answers from the complete interview that appears in the July 24, 2011 edition of the Boston Globe: IDEAS: So why not leave it to Google? DARNTON: It became clear, as Google’s project evolved, that it would be a commercial enterprise, and in fact an enterprise attached to a gigantic monopoly. […]
Comparing Health Care Quality: A National Directory In every community across America, both good and bad care is being delivered in doctors’ offices and hospitals. Bad care causes medical errors and poor outcomes and wastes resources and money. That’s why it is important to know if health care providers deliver high-quality health care by making […]
From a San Mateo Daily Journal: A new state law that takes effect Jan. 1 will add an extra layer of privacy for library users in the digital age. California’s library privacy laws were created before the advent of the Internet and, as a result, an individual’s interaction with the library outside of circulation was […]