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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 […]
Registration is required but it doesn’t take long. You can review a list of SAGE material science and engineering titles here. Hat Tips: @SAGEEngineering and @valjohns
Preprint version of “Library Mobile Applications: What Counts as Success?” by Bruce Washburn, 2011 (7 pages; PDF) From the Abstract: We have been hearing and reading about the approaching dominance of mobile for a while now, but there is little evidence yet from library mobile applications of a dramatic sea change in how our users […]
Collaborating with Native Americans and Alaskan Natives From announcement: The Office of National Drug Control Policy has launched a new Web page on Collaborating with Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. This Web page provides research and statistics; information about prevention, treatment, early intervention, and recovery programs; and additional resources to help tribal authorities use a […]
From Techland (Time.com): Launched last week, the Montreal-based startup site Viinyl propounds the novel theory that the problem with online music is that the pictures aren’t big enough. Each song registered with the site gets a single-serving URL of its own–Ali Milner’s “I Dare You,” for instance, is http://idareyou.viinyl.com/ , and Armistice’s “Mission Bells” is […]
A New Preprint from Information Technology and Libraries: "Graphs in Libraries: A Primer"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|“Graphs in Libraries: A Primer” by James E. Powell, Daniel Alcazar, Matthew Hopkins, Robert Olendorf, Tamara M. McMahon, Amber Wu, Linn Collins From the Abstract: Whenever librarians use Semantic Web services and standards for representing data, they also generate graphs, whether they intend to or not. Graphs are a new data model for libraries and […]