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PRIMO is produced by the Library Instruction Division of Association of College and Reference Libraries. From the Database Web Site: PRIMO is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments. The Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources […]
From an Arizona Daily Star Article: The popularity of the electronic gadgets does not appear to be the death knell, but rather a complement to for paper-and-ink books. The book festival is “the chance to remind people that the book is not yet dead,” said David Laird, former head of libraries at the University of […]
The video and text of Rooney’s commentary are are available here. If you were to make a list of all the good things in the world, books would be right up near the top. Someone did a great thing when they invented books. One way or another, books have been around for a long time […]
A compilation of resources appearing in the February 2011 issue of College & Research Libraries News. It was compiled and written by Spencer Acadia, a psychology and sociology librarian at Texas Woman’s University. He is currently writing a Ph.D.. dissertation on Arctic health From the Introduction: What follows is an annotated list of Internet resources […]
From an Ordnance Survey Announcement (via GISUser.com) 100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery […]
Articles From Volume 16, Number 3 – 7 March 2011 Tweeting about TV: Sharing television viewing experiences via social media message streams Abstract HTML D. Yvette Wohn, Eun-Kyung Na Multimedia, interactive and hypertextual features in divergent online news platforms: An exploratory study of Flemish online news Abstract HTML Michael Opgenhaffen FYI: TMI: Toward […]
Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
From a Virginia Historical Society News Release: The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) recently received a $100,000 grant from Dominion Resources and The Dominion Foundation to fund the creation of Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. This free, online database will contain personal information about enslaved Virginians gleaned from some of the more […]
From the Map Hompage: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within […]
From a PSFK Post: Imagine every single book ever written being translated into a series of QR codes that would allow users to immediately download the stories to their devices in 800 word segments. That is exactly what Books2Barcodes, an initiative created by humor blog Wonder Tonic, plans to do. Beginning with several classics which […]