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The column was written by Kari Kraus, an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the English department at the University of Maryland. From the Column: Perhaps the most impressive effort to curate digital information is taking place in the realm of video games. In the face of negligence from the game industry, […]
Conf. Paper: "Public Performance Rights Management in Academic Libraries"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly on August 17, 2011. Title: “Public Performance Rights Management in Academic Libraries” Author: Laura Jenenmann; George Mason University Libraries, Fairfax, VA From the Abstract: This paper will provide an overview of public performance rights for using […]
Title: Civil War Aeronautics (1861-1865) Compiler: Jennifer Harbster, July 2011 Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division at the Library of Congress In honor of the Civil War’s Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary this guide brings together various publications about the use of balloons for aerial reconnaissance and mapping during the United States Civil War (1861-1865). […]
Title: Environmentalism: Resources for kids, young adults, educators and parents Compiler: Ally Frueh, SRS Intern, July 2011 Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division at the Library of Congress This guide provides a selection of print and electronic resources on environmentalism for children ages K-12. It also includes environmental education resources for educators and […]
Title: Veganism: Eating Consciously and Compassionately: Resources For Active and Aspiring Vegans Compiled by Vatina McLaurin, SRS Intern, July 2011 Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division at the Library of Congress. The resources within this guide focus on the many questions people have regarding veganism – the elimination of the consumption of any […]
From a Federal Depository Library Program E-Mail Announcement: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has received the final report from Ithaka S + R (Ithaka), who was contracted to develop practical and sustainable models for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). GPO appreciates the comments that were submitted by members of our community during Ithaka’s […]
Web Preservation, URLs: "Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Authors: Robert Sanderson; Mark Edward Phillips; and Herbert Van de Sompel From an Abstract: In this paper, the authors present the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital library, are studied to determine if […]
From the Mail and Guardian (Cape Town): The new online Who Owns What Database launched by the Institute of Security Studies in Cape Town on Friday is making the assets and private interests of all elected officials available to the public for the first time. Originally launched in September 2009, the database of politicians’ assets […]
Last December, Bing began adding store-by-store maps of shopping malls around the U.S. available to their desktop search product via Bing Maps. Today, maps for more than 400 malls are available and the other day we learned that shopping mall maps are now accessible on Bing Mobile (m.bing.com). This Bing Blog post has directions on […]
From the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab: How hot was the month of July in 2011? So hot that just by plotting the location of each daily heat record that was broken, a nearly complete image of the contiguous United States is visible. Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest […]