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Reference: Controlled Vocabularies "The Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version) is Added to the Open Folklore Portal"
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|From the Open Folklore Blog: The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a beta version on the Open Folklore portal, a collaborative effort of the Society, the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, and the Indiana University Digital Library Program. [Clip] The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access […]
ARL Appoints Judy Ruttenberg to Lead Transforming Research Libraries Program
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Special Libraries
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Judy F. Ruttenberg as Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries (TRL). Ruttenberg is currently Program Officer for Collections at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), a collaborative organization of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of […]
Official Announcement “Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion (via Bloomberg) “Google: We’re Spending $12.5 Billion on Motorola to ‘Protect’ Android” (via AllThingsD/WSJ) Btw, the AllThingsD article also includes a live blog of the conference call and correctly observes that the FTC antitrust about Google probe in the U.S. and a number of investigations […]
Direct to Full Report ||| PDF Version is Also Available The report was written by Aaron Smith, a researcher at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. From the Overview: Cell phones are useful for quick information retrieval (so much so that their absence can cause problems) – Half of all adult cell owners (51%) […]
From Law Week Colorado: “Mistrial by Google” is a worrying phenomenon, but one that can be overcome by smart trial management, says Senior U.S. Judge John Kane of Colorado’s federal trial court. Googling is the new national pastime, but it’s one that simply won’t fly if you’re on a jury. Even so, with such vast […]
European citizens making more requests for Commission documents than ever before Europe’s citizens are showing an ever greater interest in Commission activities, over a growing number of policy areas. That’s the conclusion of the latest annual report on public access to documents, which shows an 18% increase in the number of requests for documents in […]
Canada: University of Calgary digital library ready for students
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From the Calgary Herald Article: Staff at the University of Calgary are rushing to ensure the new Taylor Family Digital Library will be open by the start of the school year. The new library was intended to be open for students prior to final exams in April but after the first two floors opened, a […]
A 17 Item Roundup of News From and About Google and Google+
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|UPDATED (Monday, August 15, 2011): Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion; Patents Seen as a Leading Reason for Deal Time once again for another in our series of Google news roundups. We missed last week so this is going to be full of items in addition to several Google items we posted as soon as […]
A web version of the exhibition is now available online. The physical exhibit opens in the Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery in the Joseph Regenstein Library on the U. of Chicago campus next week. It will run through December 30, 2011. Details here. From the Web Exhibition Web Site: “Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary” […]
The SEA Currents Blog (via National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region) Reports: …the National Library of Medicine changed the name of the MedlinePlus Twitter feed from @medlineplus4you to @medlineplus. Tweets will no longer be published to the @medlineplus4you feed, and, instead, will be published to the @medlineplus feed. Existing subscribers to @medlineplus4you or […]