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From a Deloitte Web Page: A new Deloitte survey revealed that only 23 percent of federal managers are “very confident” that their cybersecurity staff had the skills needed to accomplish their agency’s cybersecurity priorities, and less than half (47 percent) were even “somewhat confident.” For the “Cyber Workforce Preparedness Survey,” Deloitte asked 100 federal agency […]
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress has updated the Chronicling America site with an additional 178,000 pages (including 25 new titles) and a “sneak peek” at upcoming changes to the Web site itself. These changes include a new overall look, a “100 Years Ago Today” daily slideshow, new search features, and improved results […]
Paul Biba at TeleRead alerts us to something coming soon from Kirkus Reviews Via a News Release: Maintaining its position as the first review resource to bring a critical eye to children’s book apps as a distinct new category, Kirkus Reviews today announced the creation of a discovery engine devoted exclusively to this burgeoning area of […]
A commentary by the OBA placed online today looks at what has changed, what has not changed, and asks, “where are we today” in terms of the Google Book Settlement. One Example From the What Has Changed Portion of the Article As Publishers Weekly noted, “Google eBooks overnight becomes the largest e-book provider in the […]
Now Online: The January/February 2011 Edition of CLIR Issues
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Articles In The Latest Issue (no. 79) Include: Extent of Orphan Works Examined in New Publication Series CLIR has launched a new publication series, “Ruminations.” The series will feature short research papers and essays that bring new perspective to issues related to planning for and managing organizational and institutional change in the evolving digital environment […]
"Special 301 Report: Publishers Submit Annual Review of Global Intellectual Property Protection to USTR"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing
|From an Association of American Publisher’s Announcement: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), through the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), today submitted its annual Special 301 Report to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). The report details issues related to intellectual property rights protection and market access in a number of foreign […]
You’ll now find a QR code on the right side of each record in the InfoKat database. Users can simply scan the code and receive, “significant details for locating the book in the Libraries’ collections and the descriptive information of the item (e.g., title, author, publisher).” Here are a couple of records from InfoKat. 1 […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]
From an OAS (Organization of American States) News Release: The Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) today officially launched the Database of Migration Legislation in the Americas (MILEX), as part of an effort to promote a better understanding of migration phenomena with a comprehensive, objective, and long-term approach to […]
From The Bookseller: More people aged over 55 own e-readers than the younger generation, according to a new study on digital reading habits. Data released by research company OnePoll shows 6% of readers in the over-55 category–equivalent to 500,000 people–own a digital device to consume literature in comparison to just 5% of those aged 18–24. […]