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From The Hill: The offices announced on Wednesday the addition of an Application Programming Interface for FederalRegister.gov, which enables information technology developers to create new applications with information published on the site. “The API is an open data tool packaged in a light-weight, Web-friendly data transfer format that requires only a Web browser or client […]
Teen Dating Violence: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography (92 pages; PDF) Source: Library of Congress (Federal Research Division) This annotated bibliography and summary of research identify significant research carried out in the decade since 1999 on the issue of dating violence among high school and middle school youth. The survey provided by the bibliography […]
From the Radio Times (WHYY-FM, Philadelphia) Blurb: How will the publishing industry adapt, will booksellers continue to exist, will writers have to “write” differently” and since we know longer can rely on book covers and the suggestions of booksellers, how do readers decide what to read? In this hour of Radio Times, the future of […]
From CDLINFO News: Students have been able to chat with a librarian any time, any place from the campus interfaces of WorldCat Local (WCL) Melvyl since May 2010. As of Wednesday, August 17, 2011 patrons will also see the “chat with a librarian” Qwidget in the central version of Melvyl (http://melvyl.worldcat.org). The UC Heads of […]
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
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|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
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Management and Leadership, News
|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 […]