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Congrats Brewster! This article was picked up by hundreds of newspapers around the globe. From the Associated Press: Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save […]
The always interesting and informative Colorado Library Research Service blog lets us knows us that the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) released files with data from the 2009 Public Libraries Survey (PLS) at the end of last week. The new data along with data files back to 1992 can be accessed here. From […]
University of Virginia's New "Libra" Digital Repository Debuts
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From a UVa Announcement: Libra, a new digital repository, is designed to archive U.Va. faculty articles and scholarship from any discipline in a searchable database, said Martha Sites, deputy university librarian. The service will also host student theses and dissertations, as well as research data sets. “It provides a way for scholars to ensure the […]
The two new apps are only available for iPad users. Like all of the other apps in the directory they’re free to download and use. 1. Science360 for iPad from the National Science Foundation (NSF) The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from […]
If you’re not a developer, here’s some news that might be of interest to them. Perhaps it’s time to for developers and non-developers to brainstorm new ways to use Dept. of Labor data. The team at the wonderful ProgrammableWeb.com, home to a massive directory of API’s and mashups pointed out that the U.S. Department of […]
From RLUK: New figures from RLUK university members have challenged the tired stereotype of academic libraries as being quiet, dusty, and increasingly empty. Figures for 2009/10 (the latest for which full data are available) show that there were over 35 million visits to RLUK’s 23 UK university member libraries. This represented an increase of 10% […]
From the People’s Daily: On July 13, 79-year-old Yang Liangcai and several colleagues carefully selected several yellowed books and documents from huge piles of cardboard boxes in a document room of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. “These paper originals will be sorted, scanned and then made available online,” Yang said. [Clip] The […]
Direct to Project MUSE Beta Web Site Browse by Research Area Browse by Title Browse by Publisher Search Free samples of both complete books and book chapters are available. You do not need a Muse login/password to access and read. Access to journals using the beta interface does require a login/password to read the fulltext. […]
Note: A congrats to AP librarian/researcher/writer, Randy Herschchaft who recevied a byline for his work on this report. From the Associated Press: Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that […]
From the Register-Guardian (Eugene, OR): Professional historians and amateur history buffs — or folks simply wanting to research their family tree — now can search digitally more than 75 years worth of archived Oregon newspapers through a new University of Oregon website. With the Historic Oregon Newspapers archive, researchers no longer have to head for […]