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A Look at the Rare Books Collection at the National Library of Singapore
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From TODAYonline: High above Singapore’s Central Business District, there is a secret room. With virtual anonymity it stands over the heads of the unsuspecting public below, preoccupied as they pound up and down the busy streets. I scan a bustling Victoria Street but none of the office workers who race past the futuristic National Library […]
Montreal: "Jewish Public Library Turns a Page"
Awards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From the Montreal Gazette: The [Jewish Public] Library has been many things to many people since Yiddish-speaking immigrants founded it 97 years ago as a place to learn, to read and borrow books, gather to discuss them and meet their authors. Along the way it has grown considerably, developed a thriving children’s library, assumed an […]
Follow Up Study: “Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning” Auhors: Mika Ayenson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Dietrich James Wambach, University of Wyoming Ashkan Soltani, University of California, Berkeley – School of Information Nathan Good, Good Research Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for […]
From the From a Conversition Blog: First, the standard Conversition methodologies were applied including collecting thousands of comments about Google+, Google Hangouts, and Google Circles from across the internet. Whether the comments were written within the Twitter, Facebook, or Google networks, or from thousands of other forums, blogs, and websites, a wide sample of opinions […]
From a Column Appearing on TheRecord.com: Welcome to Rare Book School, summer camp for bibliophiles. Tucked in the basement of the cavernous main library at the University of Virginia, the school is an annual five-week homage to the printed page. Or is it an elegy? [Clip] Founded at New York’s Columbia University in 1983, Rare […]
"Librarians Release Online Survey of Digitized Rare Catholica"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Resources
|From a Seton Hall University Announcement: Marta Deyrup and Martha Loesch, catalogers at Walsh Library and Pat Lawton, digital project librarian for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance, have released the results of their Survey of Digitized Rare Catholica held by Catholic universities, colleges, seminaries and archives in the U.S. and Canada. Direct to a Summary […]
From the Journal’s Web Site: The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JESLIB) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly that advances the theory and practice of librarianship with a special focus on services related to data-driven research in the physical, biological, and medical sciences. The journal explores the many roles of librarians in supporting eScience and welcomes articles […]
From a Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production Article The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program has launched an online searchable database of project profiles on recycled energy projects across the US. The database contains 130 project profiles and counting, all put together by the eight US DOE Regional Clean Energy Application Centers. Each project profile, typically […]
Digitization Projects: "Boston College Libraries Publish Digital Edition of W.B. Yeats' First Play 'Love and Death'"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
|From the Boston College Chronicle: Boston College has published an online edition of Love and Death – the first play by Irish Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats, which has never before been published or performed. The play, which is presented in both digital form and through images of the original manuscript, can be viewed at […]
Open Access: Dove Medical Press Publishes First Video Abstract
Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing, Video Recordings
|From a News Release: Dove Medical Press is delighted to announce the launch of video abstracts in their 100+ open access peer reviewed medical and scientific journals. The first of these was published last week by authors Jean B Nachega, Michael J Mugavero, Michele Zeier, et al for their paper “Treatment simplification in HIV-infected adults […]