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Archivist of the United States Announces Agency Restructuring and New Appointments
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From a NARA Announcement: Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero recently announced several key appointments to begin a major transformation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The new appointments follow an internal report, A Charter for Change: Charting the Course, which recommended changes to the organizational structure and culture of the National […]
From Reuters: Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organizations and tops last year’s 237 nominees. [Clip] Members of all national parliaments, professors of law or […]
New Online Resource from NLM: "The Public Health Film Goes to War" Showcases Rare WWII Movies
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From a National Library of Medicine Announcement: The National Library of Medicine [NLM] has created a new online resource, “The Public Health Film Goes to War” (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/digicolls/phfgtw/index.html). The site features 18 rare films on public health in wartime from the Library’s Historical Audiovisual collections, housed in the History of Medicine Division (HMD). The individual titles […]
Audio: Sue Polanka Talks With Brewster Kahle About New Internet Archive In-Library Lending Program
Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, Publishing
|Sue Polanka from No Shelf Required talks with Brewster Kahle about the new In-Library Lending Program that the Internet Archive announced last week. Direct to Audio (mp3) See Also: Our Post From February 22, 2010 Announcing the New Program See Also: More No Shelf Required Audio Interviews See Also: Sue Polanka is the Founder/Editor of […]
New Online Resource Offers Teachers Wealth of Middle East Material
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From a University of Chicago News Release: Students in high schools and colleges around the country can get a much richer look at the history and culture of the Middle East through a new online resource, “Teaching the Middle East,” which includes articles written by University of Chicago faculty on topics ranging from prehistory through […]
Webcast Now Available: "FDsys Helps GPO Provide Access to Federal Digital Publications"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|From a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program/Library of Congress Announcement: “It’s like an all-you-can eat buffet, but all the options are healthy for you,” said Kate Zwaard, the Government Printing Office’s Lead Program Planner for Digital Preservation, in a visit to the Library of Congress on November 16, 2010. Zwaard was talking about […]
From The Guardian: Hundreds of episodes of Desert Island Discs are to be made available online, settling a long-running broadcasting dispute almost 70 years after the show first aired. [The archive will go live in April.] The BBC archive, spanning the last 10 years of famous castaways – 500 Desert Island Discs episodes – will […]
From a Blog Post by Mark Power (Author of the Briefing Paper) With the growth and constant shift in the mobile space institutions could be forgiven for feeling a little lost as to how to best tackle the issue of delivering content and/or services that are optimised for mobile devices. Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone…app […]
An HTML version of the book is free online. PDF and hard copy copy versions are also available for a fee. By: Tom Heath, Talis and Christian Bizer , Freie Universität Berlin Published by: Morgan & Claypool From the Abstract: The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked […]
Gates Foundation Releases Study on Potential Benefits of State Research & Education Networks For Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Public Libraries, Reports
|From an ALA Announcement: A new study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explores potential benefits of state research and education (R&E) networks for libraries. Titled “Connections, Capacity, Community,” the report was developed in response to national investments in state and regional fiber networks through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Currently, there […]