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From ALA: Colorado Library Signs Agreement With Independent Publishers
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the EQUACC Blog (ALA’s Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content) Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and the Douglas County Libraries (DCL) announce the May 18, 2011 signing of their historic agreement. Key features of that agreement include: CIPA agrees to facilitate the sale (not the rental) of ebooks to the library […]
The 3.7 million page total was announced via the Chronicling America RSS feed the other day. It also said that 230,000 newspaper pages in various titles were just added to CA. Current Chronicling America Database Totals: “The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in […]
From MyFoxPhoenix.com: A valley mom who pushed to have a book banned from her daughter’s school library has succeeded. Hilary Lockhart says the book ‘Lovingly Alice’ contains graphic details about sex and shouldn’t be available to kids. Lockhart, the mother of an 8-year-old from Quayle Run Elementary, was shocked when she flipped through the pages […]
From OCLC Research: This new prototype accepts either single headings or small sets of bibliographic records for conversion. The intent of this Web site is to provide a learning tool to help familiarize users with FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminology] and the differences between FAST and LCSH [Library of Congress Subject Headings]. LCSH headings […]
Newspaper Digitization: "Ohio Historical Society Receives National Grant to Preserve Historic Ohio Newspapers"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
|From the Urbana Daily Citizen: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has given $334,000 to the Ohio Historical Society to continue its digitization of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers. The National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program developed by NEH and the Library of Congress, will digitize 26 Ohio […]
WLIC 2011 is scheduled to take place from August 13-18, 2011 in San Juan Puerto Rico. The final Programme* for the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Puerto Rico is available online: Full, Quick Overview Daily Overviews Full, Printable Overview (* Changes in sessions may be made between now and August.)
New Online Database: Wall Street Journal Jet Tracker (Past Flights of Non-Commercial Aircraft)
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|Make sure to read all of the documentation before using the database. From a WSJ Article The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under instrument flight rules. […]
Upcoming Webinar from SPARC: What is the Digital Public Library of America?
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries
|From a SPARC Announcement: In October 2010, leaders from research libraries, foundations, and cultural institutions gathered to discuss how to work together toward the creation of a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) – defined as “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, […]
Florida BioDatabase From press release: The Florida BioDatabase (www.floridabiodatabase.com) is a freely accessible public database that tracks the biotechnology industry in Florida along a number of metrics. It follows the industry held standard of defining a biotechnology company according to the Ernst & Young guidelines that include core research and development and involve the use […]
David Weinberger on "Rebooting Library Privacy in the Age of the Network"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Podcasts
|Dr. David Weinberger is the Director of the The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Law School, the host of the new Library Lab/The Podcast, blogs at Joho The Blog, and has been published in a number of publications including several articles linked to directly from home page of Joho the Blog. Dr. Weinberger’s bio […]