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From the CBC: The City of Toronto is facing down a serious budget shortfall. And as city council looks for places to cut, councilor Doug Ford, the brother of Mayor Rob Ford, started counting library branches. Today we look at the debate over balancing the books by closing libraries. Read Transcript/Listen to the CBC’s Current […]
From WSJ: Facebook Inc. is exploring an expansion of the information users see on its homepage, said people familiar with the matter, as competition in the social media space ramps up. The social network is working on changes to a central product, the News Feed, which filters activity on Facebook and shows users information that […]
UK Government Pledges Copyright Reform, Reactions From the Library and Publishing Communities
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From Ars Technica: The British government today pledged (PDF) to enact significant changes to copyright law, including orphan works reforms and the introduction of new copyright exceptions. And the tone of the comments was surprising: the government agrees that “copyright currently over-regulates to the detriment of the UK.” CD (and perhaps DVD) ripping for personal […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $40 Million in Grants, Libraries are Among the Recipients
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|This is a follow-up to a post from last week about funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for start-up projects and institutes. Today, a list of ALL of 249 projects (in several categories) receiving funding from NEH during this funding cycle. A number of libraries are listed as well as many digitization projects […]
From OCLC (aka Straight Out of Dublin): The OCLC Board of Trustees will engage OCLC members in the process to select a successor to Jay Jordan, who plans to retire as OCLC President and CEO at the end of June 2012. Larry Alford, Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees, and Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries, […]
Digitization Project: Get Access To the Earliest Medieval Map of Britain: Digital Gough Map Launched
|From the Bodleian Library at Oxford University: A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic pieces from the Bodleian collections. The findings are recorded on a newly-launched website www.goughmap.org. The fifteen-month AHRC-funded [Arts and […]
The 2011 update was recently published by the World Population Bureau. Direct to 2011 Data Sheet (15 Pages; PDF) From a Summary: Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999. Today’s world population is double the population in 1967. But while the overall growth rate […]
Access to Information: "EPA Publishes Rule to Improve Reporting of Chemical Information"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|From Enviro-News: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasing the type and amount of information it collects on commercial chemicals from chemical manufacturers, allowing the agency to better identify and manage potential risks to Americans’ health and the environment. The improved rule, known as the chemical data reporting rule (CDR), also requires that companies submit […]
From cnews/Canoe.ca: Politicians across Canada may want to close the book on pulling public funding for libraries. A new Leger marketing survey released exclusively to QMI Agency found an overwhelming majority of Canadians want their libraries kept publicly funded. While libraries ranked at the top of services Canadians want publicly funded, zoos ranked at the […]
The report comes from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Summary The National Insurance Crime Bureau today released Hot Wheels—its list of the 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, model, and model […]