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By now you very likely know that Steve Jobs took part in the keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference today in San Francisco. This is where Apple makes announcements of what’s soon to come from the company. Today’s announcements were about iOS, OSX and iCloud. No new hardware was introduced. 1. iOS 5 […]
Here’s a Look at Some of the Articles in the June 2011 Issue (72.6) of College & Research Libraries News. 1. “Google like a librarian: Sharing skills for search success” By Mary K. O’Kelly and Colleen Lyon 2. “I came, I saw, I researched: Students reflect on library life in six-word memoirs” by Robert Miller […]
This article appears in the June, 2011 issue of First Monday. “Reading Revolutions: Online Digital Text and Implications for Reading in Academe” by Barry W. Cull Abstract: “While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of […]
A new guest blog post on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog by Jim Michalko, VP in charge of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Michalko Writes: In a recent presentation to OCLC Global Council, OCLC provided some preliminary thoughts on open data licensing of member library catalog data. A number of OCLC members and groups have […]
Jennifer Howard on: "Publishers Grapple With Thorny Issues of Protecting Property and Going Digital"
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|Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on some what took place last week at the Association of University Presses Annual Conference in Baltimore. The official theme was “The Next Wave: Toward a Culture of Collaboration.” Many panels examined different partnerships that university presses have lately made a priority. For instance, one session […]
From The Daily Mail: Undergraduates at Worcester College have been threatened with disciplinary action if they continue removing their tops in the library on Wednesday afternoons Up to 40 male and female students became involved in the group action for a 30-minute period between 3pm and 4pm every Wednesday They carry on their work partly-clothed […]
In the past few days we began noticing a number of Google Help Forum posts from users reporting that Google’s-Uncle Sam search is unavailable. The Uncle Sam interface provided a search of only government and military material and has been online for MANY years. “Uncle Sam” continues to redirect users to the Google homepage at […]
David Weinberger the co-director of the Harvard Library and Innovation Lab, is sharing some more interesting and informative video with all of us. This time, we see and hear from Brewster Kahle, the founder and person in charge at the Internet Archive, provides a nine minute tour of the book scanning area at IA HQ […]
The following info is via a JSTOR web page. You can access the complete page here. Here’s a List if the 9 New Titles Added to JSTOR: American Periodicals (Arts & Sciences VIII) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerperi Coverage: Vol. 1 (Fall, 1991)–Vol. 17, No. 2 (2007) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Ohio State University Press ISSN: 1054-7479 The […]
Does Television Advertising Influence Online Search? This paper finds a significant association between television advertising for financial services brands and consumers’ tendency to search branded keywords (e.g. “Fidelity”) rather than generic category-related keywords (e.g. “stocks”). The effect is largest for young brands during standard business hours with an elasticity, .07, comparable to extant measurements of […]