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Super Interesting! Author: Kristina M Doing-Harris*, BCompSci MA MS PhD; Qing Zeng-Treitler*, PhD Affiliation (Both Authors) University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States Source: Journal of Internet Medical Research (13.2, 2011) ABSTRACT Background: Consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) have been developed to aid consumer health informatics applications. This purpose is […]
Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by –The Public Mr. Leighninger’s report begins to pull back the veil on how the various online engagement tactics and tools can be used, and when they work best. His report describes common scenarios where public managers may find themselves needing, or using, public input. He […]
The New York Public Library Releases First in a Series of Free iPad Apps
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|From the NY Times: “Biblion: The Boundless Library” is the name for a series of apps available on Apple’s tablet computer that highlight different elements in the library’s collection. It was developed by the library and the design firm Potion. [Clip] The first edition showcases the library’s 1939-1940 New York World’s fair holdings, which are […]
1. “Clay Shirky at MLA ’11-On the Need for Health Sciences Librarians to Rock the Boat” by Marcus Banks Clay Shirky spoke at the Medical Library Association on Sunday (May 16th) and an excellent blog post provides a look at what Shirky had to say along with several comments from Mr, Banks. Hat Tip and […]
UPDATE: A Note On the Database Website Says the Service is Temporarily Office A number of documents were found to have been corrupted during the imaging process. To ensure the integrity of the documents provided through the database, we are re-imaging them and expect to be back live very soon. If you have already downloaded […]
From a WSJ Article: Digital publisher RosettaBooks LLC is giving away a few classic movie-themed titles, like “The Graduate,” in the hopes that it will spur new sales, WSJ’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg reports. The quintet, which includes “The Graduate” and “Midnight Cowboy,” has been largely ignored by digital consumers, generating only marginal sales over the past […]
New Podcast in the "Conversations about Digital Preservation" Series from NDIIPP
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|New from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program / Library of Congress Mike Ashenfelder and Bill Lefurgy, from the Library of Congress talk with Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland. The podcast was recorded last month and runs 62 minutes. Summary: Dr. Papenfuse discusses his career, his early success with records databases, creating […]
Today’s announcement builds on a number of Facebook features that have been integrated into Bing search results beginning in October 2010. As Greg Sterling notes on Search Engine Land, “[The] news today is that Bing is entering a kind of “phase II” of the process, doing some more interesting and potentially useful things with Likes.” […]
From a Colorado Library Research Service Blog Post by Nicolle Steffen: The preliminary data from the Public Library Annual Report is now available on LRS.org. See Colorado Public Library Statistics and Profiles at: http://www.lrs.org/pub_stats.php. For access to Colorado Public Library Interactive Statistics (LRS-i), use the new interface at: http://www.lrs.org/public/stats.php?year=2010. For Input-Output Measures, see: http://www.lrs.org/public/cannedstats.php?year=2010. The remainder […]
Alice Sneary on the WorldCat.org blog announces that the WorldCat database is now available in Portuguese. Now, wherever you are, you can self-select your language preference as Portuguese or one of the other six languages: Simplified Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. For example, at the bottom of any WorldCat.org page you can […]