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Roundup #2 of Selected Papers Presented at 2011 IFLA Annual Conference
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|Roundup #2 follows and includes nine papers. You can find our first roundup with papers from IFLA 2011 here. This is only a small (very small) hand-selected list of what has been or will be presented at IFLA 2011 (World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly) in San Juan. We […]
Big Dollars in Durham: Duke U. Libraries Receive $13.6 Million Rubenstein Gift
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From a Duke U. Announcement: Duke University trustee David M. Rubenstein will give $13.6 million to the Duke University Libraries in support of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday. [Emphasis Ours] The donation is the largest ever to the libraries. In recognition of Rubenstein’s gift, the special […]
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The following guest post is by Maarten Zeinstra from KnowledgeLand. Maarten is a member of the OKF Working Group on the Public Domain. In practice, however, determining whether a work has passed into the public domain can prove very difficult. This is especially true when attempting to determine the […]
Art Museums: Marquette University's Haggerty Museum Puts Collection Online
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|From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University has put nearly a quarter of its 4,500 or so artworks into a digital collections database, the museum announced today. [Clip] The database features the work of 350 artists from 29 different countries and is searchable by artist’s name, title, nationality, medium […]
Digital Scholarship Press Updates Their "Google Books Bibliography"
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|Digital Scholarship Press/Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has posted Version 7 of the essential Google Books Bibliography. As we’ve said many times in the past, this resource is the definitive resource for the topic and is a valuable tools for many users including info pros, students, lawyers, and journalists. This selective bibliography presents over 320 articles […]
From AdAge: According to ComScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube’s channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube’s audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any other category. Vevo accounted for 38% of YouTube’s entire monthly viewers, easily the most-watched channel within the video-sharing site, and second-place Warner Music accounted for […]
New Issue Now Online (August, 2011) of The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults
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|In this Issue: “Editor’s Message” by Sandra Hughes-Hassell “The Silent Message: Professional Journals’ Failure to Address LGBTQ Issues” by Elizabeth Koehler This paper discusses the pervasiveness of homophobia in our culture and its impact on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) teenagers. It argues that young adult librarians can support LGBTQ teens by collecting […]
Google Catalogs (web version) debuted in December, 2001 and was available until early 2009. It taught the company a lot about mass digitization (scanning, readability, how to handle documents, etc.) that they have applied to book digitization. For its time, it was very cool. Here’s the Google Catalogs homepage from December 17, 2001 and the […]
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis continues to make digitized reports and other historic documents available online. Here’s a look at just a few of them. A New Collection of Material: U.S. Government Debt “A historical collection of speeches and hearings on or referring to […]
From Library and Archives Canada: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Canadian Naturalization 1915–1951. The nominal index has been extended with the addition of more than 91,000 names and now covers the years from 1915 to 1936, inclusively. Work is ongoing to […]