MORE POSTS
NY Times: "In Lean Times, Schools Squeeze Out Librarians"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Reports, Resources, School Libraries
|“In Lean Times, Schools Squeeze Out Librarians” Source: NY Times Reports from: Pennsylvania Oregon Illinois New York City From the Article: In New York, as in districts across the country, many school officials said they had little choice but to eliminate librarians, having already reduced administrative staff, frozen wages, shed extracurricular activities and trimmed spending […]
Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator The Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates of the costs of illness and premature death for a number of foodborne illnesses have been used in regulatory cost-benefit and impact analyses. Like all cost estimates, the ERS estimates include assumptions about disease incidence, outcome severity, and the level of medical, productivity, and disutility […]
Title: “arXiv: Integrating disciplinary repositories with multiple partners and services” Speaker: Simeon Warner (Cornell) Event: Digital Repositories and Field-Specific Digital Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges Held During JCDL2011/Ottawa/Canada
1. Library Anywhere Adds QR Codes Superb idea Tim! 2. New on LibraryThing: “What Should You Borrow” Recommendation Feature Cool Idea Tim! 3. EBSCO Publishing Increases Access to Retro Indexes from H.W. Wilson 4. New IEEE Web Portal Provides Access to the Latest Developments in Life Sciences
Penn State U. Announces Civil War Archiving Project
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|From a Penn State Live Story: A new project, “The People’s Contest: a Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project” aims to advance scholarship on the experiences of ordinary northerners during a period of extraordinary conflict, a lesser understood aspect of the Civil War era. The website chronicles Pennsylvania’s history from 1851, marked by the bloody […]
Now Available: EPA National Library Network Strategic Plan FY 2012-FY 2014
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Government Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Special Libraries
|From the EPA National Library Network Web Site: The EPA National Library Network Strategic Plan outlines a three-year strategy (Fiscal Years 2012-2014) for building on the Library Network’s successes and accomplishments to provide EPA employees and the public with convenient and timely access to environmental information. It lays out goals in four key areas: Network […]
An Associated Press article provides a guide to navigating to and using the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration database with bus carrier safety info.
From Matt McGee at Search Engine Land: Google Health, the company’s attempt to improve health care by letting consumers move medical data online and control who can access it, is shutting down. The service will be retired on January 1, 2012. In a blog post announcing the news, Google says the product didn’t catch on […]
The new optional limiter was mentioned in a tweet earlier today by Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist at OCLC, Lorcan Dempsey. His tweet also includes a link to WorldCat Local at Washington St. University. When you click on the advanced search link you’ll spot the “only return peer-reviewed articles” option near the bottom of […]
A New Blog From HathiTrust and 2011 Mid-Year HathiTrust Review Now Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Blog News 1. Perspectives from HathiTrust is the title of a new blog from the organization. The premiere post was written by John Wilkin, the Executive Director of HathiTrust and the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan. The blog post is titled, “HathiTrust and Discovery” Wiklin Begins: It […]