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Download Here Introductory Blog Post from Mozilla Firefox 5 is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android The latest version of Firefox includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements that make it easier to discover and use all of the innovative features in Firefox. This release adds support for more modern Web technologies that […]
ALA/ALSC Adds Several Sites To Superb "Web Sites for Kids" Collection
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources, Scholastic
|Here’s a List of ALL Sites just added to the collection. Additions Include: Weather Channel Kids – www.theweatherchannelkids.com/ GoGo News – www.gogonews.com/ My Young Child – http://myyoungchild.org/ Neil Gaiman’s MouseCircus – www.mousecircus.com/ Science of Baseball – www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/index.html Study Jams – http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm@ From ALA/ALSC (Association of Library Services for Children) Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) […]
New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture Launches Database of More Than 2000 Vintage Photographs
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Reports, Resources
|From NJ.com: An online data – and image bank describing more than 7,000 vintage photographs produced by the Department of Agriculture to document farming in New Jersey from the late 19th century through the 1970s has been created. Of these, more than 2,000 photos have been scanned and are now publicly viewable in the image […]
New Resource From UC Berkeley: California Language Archive Offers Web Accessible Materials
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, News, Resources
|From the UC Berkeley News Service: As of [yesterday], much of the University of California, Berkeley’s vast language resources is accessible, free of charge, to anyone with Internet access via the new California Language Archive (CLA) website and its catalog of UC Berkeley materials – the largest indigenous language archive at a U.S. university. The […]
Archives: Northern Michigan University Digitizes Thousands of Historic Mining Documents and Photos
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Reports, Resources
|From WLUC-TV: [Northern Michigan] University’s (NMU) Archiving Department recently scanned and posted over 70,000 documents relating to CCI’s (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company) annual reports and lumber company. They also scanned over 500 maps and 200 photographs. It took the staff of five over a year to scan and touch up the documents. NMU acquired the records […]
Impressive launch! Simple, clean, easy to use interface and links to a number of resources. The site will be useful to NIH users and other medical researchers. Direct toNIH Library Mobile Web Site The mobile site provides access to: Library Hours Ask a Librarian PubMed Mobile*** Mobile Databases (Both Free and Fee-Based, Very Large Collection) […]
From the OSTI News Release: Arabic has been added to the suite of translated languages at WorldWideScience.org, bringing the total number of translated languages to 10. At WorldWideScience.org, your query can be translated into the languages of the search engine’s 80-plus databases and the results can be translated into your preferred language. In addition, WorldWideScience.org […]
From the CBC Archive: On June 20, 1967, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson presides over the official opening of the new National Library of Canada building in Ottawa. The $13 million building, which will hold Canadian treasures, is described as an imposing structure of granite, marble, glass and steel. “It’s anything but government green,” reports […]
New Report from Publishing Research Consortium: "Journal Article Mining: A Research Study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Interviews, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Title: “Journal Article Mining: A Research study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises” Authors: by Eefke Smit, STM and Maurits van der Graaf. Source: Publishers Research Council This is a study commissioned by PRC which offers the first comprehensive look at what publishers and others are doing, and plan to do, in both […]
This article by Sydney Beveridge, Susan Weber and Andrew A. Beveridge was posted is from Social Explorer (an Oxford University Press Resource) and is accessible (free) via the OUPBlog. The article is a “must read” (and loaded with charts) for anyone interested in U.S. library and librarian history. Here are Three Paragraphs from the Article: […]