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Audio: "Should the Library of Congress Become a National Digital Hard-Drive?"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Jeff Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Martha Anderson the director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) at the Library of Congress. From a Text Blurb: The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of […]
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From The Earth Times The Smithsonian has collected over 202,000 striking images from wildlife researchers around the globe in a new publicly accessible collection. Faced with shy and elusive creatures in the field, scientists use camera traps to observe their subjects. These traps – hidden cameras triggered by motion sensors offer scientists the chance to […]
NARA: National Archives Releases 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From a NARA News Release: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the release of the 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report. In May 2010, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) to Federal agencies. This followed the pilot self-assessment that was completed in 2009. The goal of the self-assessment is to determine […]
From a Technology Review Article: Last month, the Libyan government temporarily cut off access to the Internet within the nation’s borders. The goal was to control the flow of information to the public and disrupt coordination among the demonstrators. The shutdown failed to do either, but for a while it threatened to have an odd […]
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: NLM® released DailyMed® Mobile on January 31, 2011. DailyMed provides access to over 20,000 structured product labels (SPL) from the Food and Drug Administration. DailyMed mobile features a simplified design enabling easy search, retrieval and display of SPLs from any Web-enabled mobile device. Users can also e-mail […]
Web Tools: "10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event"
Libraries, Patrons and Users, Podcasts, Resources, Video Recordings
|“10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event” by Marieke Guy January, 2011 (Issue 66) Source: Ariadne This article is not only a keeper but also one that’s worth sharing with colleagues and library users. From the Introduction: In 2007 Lorcan Dempsey coined the phrase ‘the amplified conference’ [1]. He used the term to […]
From a Post By Amy Garner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Weblog: “What’s at stake when local news and information flow doesn’t serve all members of a community equally well? How can people respond?” These questions lie at the heart of Information Stories, a riveting new series […]
New GAO Report: "Electronic Government: National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2011 Expenditure Plan"
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Summary: NARA’s fiscal year 2011 expenditure plan satisfies four of the six legislative conditions and partially satisfies two. Specifically, it partially satisfies the condition that NARA meet requirements for reviewing the progress of capital investments, such as ERA. While NARA has held regular meetings with senior-level agency management to review ERA progress, these […]
Canada: "Vancouver Launches Online Photo Archive"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Resources
|From a CBC Article: The City of Vancouver has completed an online photo archive project, a collection of panoramic cityscapes from the early to mid 1900s.Nearly 400 images by photographer W.J. Moore have been digitized and uploaded to the Vancouver Archives website. W. J. Moore worked as a commercial photographer from 1911 to 1953. He […]