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The history of information technology is fascinating. Let’s look at storage. If you’re in your mid 40s or older you’ve dealt with: + Data Punch Cards + Vinyl + Reel-to-Reel Tapes + 8-Track Tapes + Cassette Tapes + CD’s + DVD’s + Hard Drive Devices Like iPods, iPhones, etc. + VHS Tapes + Beta Video […]
NLM 175: Upcoming Events and Milestones at National Library of Medicine
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Preservation, Reports
As many of you know the National Library of Medicine (the world’s largest library of library of the health sciences and collections) in Bethesda, MD is celebrating their 175th anniversary in 2011 with many events, a special web site, a couple of contests and more. An recent announcement reminded us of two special events taking […]
NY Times: "As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Publishing
A new article (more than 1100 words) about HarperCollins, libraries and eBooks by Julie Bosman. “People just felt gobsmacked,” said Anne Silvers Lee, the chief of the materials management division of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which has temporarily stopped buying HarperCollins e-books. “We want e-books in our collections, our customers are telling us they […]
Congrats, kudos, mazel tov, great job, way to go and all of the rest to the 50 info pros making the 2011 list. Direct to Complete List and Bios For ten years now, LJ’s Movers & Shakers has been spotlighting librarians and others in the library field who are doing extraordinary work to serve their […]
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress has launched a Music Consortium Treasures website that gives online access to some of the world’s most valued music manuscript and print materials from six esteemed institutions at www.loc.gov/musictreasures/. The aim of the site is to further music scholarship and research by providing access in one place […]
Here’s a sampling of numbers from a new Twitter blog post: 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago. 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month. 572,000. […]
Associate Univesity Librarian (UMich) and Hathi Trust Executive Director John Wilkin Named LITA/Library Hi Tech Award Winner
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles
Congrats to John Wilkin! From an ALA Announcement: John Wilkin has been named the winner of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) sponsor the award. The award recognizes outstanding persons or institutions for their long-term contributions […]
A busy day for new online resources from the U.S. Government. First, the launch of FOIA.gov and now a new subdomain of the Data.gov clearinghouse of data sets has also gone live: Law.Data.gov. From a Tech President Article: The site is, of course, a subdomain on the U.S. federal government’s data clearinghouse site Data.gov.” Administrative […]
From an Article by Jeremy Olshan, New York Post: While most New Yorkers keep just a few dozen restaurant menus in a kitchen drawer, the library has more than 40,000 in its stacks, listing eats ranging from the 1843 fare at the Astor House to the 2010 offerings at Chipotle. “It’s a record of what […]
Conference Presentation: Dr. Thomas C. Rindflesch from NLM Discusses "Semantic MEDLINE An Advanced Information Management Application for Biomedicine:
| Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
Dr. Rindflesch is an Information Research Specialist at the National Library of Medicine. He spoke at the 2011 NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) annual conference at the end of February in Philadelphia, PA. Title: “Semantic MEDLINE: An Advanced Information Management Application for Biomedicine“ Direct to 23 PowerPoint Slides See Also: Direct to Semantic […]
