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Tallest Buildings Database Contains “info on thousands of buildings” throughout the world. Includes some pre-built Tallest Buildings Lists: + The Tallest 100 Buildings in the World + The Tallest Buildings in the World by Usage + The Tallest Under Construction, Proposed and Demolished Buildings in the World + The Tallest Buildings in the World by […]
Tennessee: "New Online Archive Displays Vast Collections of Library's Memphis Room"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a Memphis Commercial Appeal Article: If you are interested in a sepia-toned photo of the 1932 graduating class of Central High School or an 1836 letter from William Andusentte of New Orleans to Britton Duke of Germantown regarding cotton prices, you can put on your shoes and button up your coat before heading to […]
Naming Names: U.S. Senators Who Shun Facebook With the explosion of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the years since the 2004 election, more and more politicians are taking the opportunity to create online platforms for the purposes of everything from announcing legislation, to interacting with constituents, to, most vitally, raising money. But as […]
From a News Release: The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter music apps across the web and various devices, announced on Tuesday that it has provided music analysis and metadata to the Million Song Dataset, a collaboration between The Echo Nest and Columbia University’s LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech […]
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Cohen, Winner of the 2011 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|Congrats, kudos, and all the rest to Dr. Cohen on winning the 2011 Kilgour Award. LITA is pleased to announce the 2011 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, Daniel J. Cohen. Dr. Cohen is an associate professor of history and art history at George Mason University and […]
From an Alexis Madrigal Article on TheAtlantic.com: MIT’s Technology Review has published all their back issues to 1969 as PDFs. If you’re a subscriber you get full access to the archive. Plebes get all the wonderful covers — and a 10-page preview. It looks like HP sponsored the digitization, which makes me wonder why all […]
From a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) News Item: Two Iraqi librarians [visited] McMaster University [in February] for training that will help in the rebuilding of their war-torn country. Suzan Azeez Ali and Sawsan Fawzi Mahdi, librarians with the Specialized Institute for Engineering Industries (SIEI), are at McMaster to better understand how to run […]
Digitization Projects: "Philippine Digital Cultural Heritage Archive Launched"
Digital Preservation, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Resources
|From a GMA News Online Article: Filipino netizens may soon be welcomed into the virtual doors of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Established in 1969 with the mission to promote and preserve Philippine culture and heritage, the CCP is set to undertake an historic digitization of its audio-visual collections, in partnership with EMC […]
Direct to Infographic From our shores, the Egyptian uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak might seem like it happened in a flash — that it was one great crescendo that reached a tidy and inevitable climax. But for Egyptians themselves, the protests and clashes must have seemed like a roller coaster — day by day, the […]
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