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New: Review More Than 60 "Statements of Interest" Submitted For Digital Public Library of America "Beta Sprint"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Public Libraries, Resources
|Six weeks ago we posted info about the Digital Public Library of America [DPLA] project announcing plans for a “Beta Sprint” to “encourage the development of demonstrations of what such a service might look like.” The deadline to submit a “Statement of Interest” ended last week and now you can review the 60+ submissions on […]
From the LactMed Web Site: A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider. Direct to NLM App Info Web Page Download iPhone Version (Free) […]
New Policy Brief from ALA: "Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library"
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|From an ALA News E-Mail: The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy’s (OITP) latest policy brief breaks down the formidable challenges in store for libraries during the next few decades. The brief, “Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library” [The policy brief] was written by OITP Fellow Roger […]
From the BL (Includes Screenshots and Video): The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library’s commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone […]
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools
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|How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools The nation’s most precious document, the Declaration of Independence, has a storied history surrounding its conservation. Although it has faded badly due to poor preservation techniques during the 19th century, it is still available for viewing in the rotunda of the National […]
Infographic by Shanghai Web Designers We like to share infographics around here but prefer to limit what we pass along to those where source info is provided. In this case, we’re going to make an exception. More about that in a moment. Shanghai Web Design has compiled an infographic providing a look at some of […]
What’s Available From the Dewey.info Web Site: Access to the top three levels of the DDC in eleven languages Access to Abridged Edition 14 (assignable numbers and captions) in three languages Actionable URIs for every class Classification semantics encoded in SKOS Representations for machines (RDF) and for humans (XHTML+RDFa) Different RDF serializations (RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON) […]
From the Wikimedia Blog: In April 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted a survey of our editors around the globe. The survey was available in 22 languages (thanks to the work of volunteer translators) and was completed by over 5,000 editors. The aim of the survey was to better understand who the editors are? What motivates […]
Digitization Projects: "University of Iowa Puts 1860s Diaries Online"
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|From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: A collection of pocket-sized diaries from the 1860s has created an Internet sensation for the University of Iowa library. The diaries are part of the library’s Civil War collection employees have been working on for more than two years, digitizing pages in time for the war’s 150th anniversary in April. […]
A presentation by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research Title: “Changing Information Behaviours: Making Library Content Appeal to Digital Information Seekers” 22 PowerPoint slides Presented at: 100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag, 8 June 2011, Berlin (Germany) See Also: “‘If It is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It:’ Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-Seeking […]