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"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
|From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
"Full-Text Search Capability Not Without Problems, Scholars Say"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Resources
|by Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois News Bureau From the Article: The perception that plugging a few keywords into Google will yield a universe of relevant information is somewhat mistaken, say Kathryn LaBarre and Carol L. Tilley, professors of library and information science at Illinois. [Our emphasis] “There’s a lot of excitement about the availability […]
Research Paper: "Who Says What to Whom on Twitter"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The paper was written by Shaomei Wu, Cornell University; Jake M. Hofman, Yahoo! Research; Winter A. Mason, Yahoo! Research; Duncan J. Watts, Yahoo! Research and will be presented at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’11) at the end of March. From the Abstract: We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in […]
From a Program Summary on the C-SPAN.org Web Site: The Communicators sat down with Professor Clay Shirky at this year’s “State of the Net” conference. Given the growth of smartphones, Shirky speculates on the future ways users will be able to access the Internet and uses the political unrest across the Middle East as an […]
From the Homepage: The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses. The Collection is one of several housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries’ Department of Special Collections on the campus to the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). This […]
From a Harvard University Library Press Announcement: The Harvard community has responded with insight and imagination to a call from the University’s Library Lab to collaborate with the Harvard Library and “to serve as co-creators of the information society of the future.” With generous support from the Arcadia Fund, Harvard’s Library Lab is designed to leverage the […]
From an Article by Alexis Madrigal on TheAtlantic.com: …there’s word that the Library of Alexandria is creating an archive of the transformation of Egypt, “collecting flyers, official documents, videos and so on.” But one suspects that projects native to the web will have an easier time finding and preserving all that went on at YouTube, […]
"Digital Library of Georgia Makes Civil War, Civil Rights Accessible"
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|From The Newnan Times-Herald: From the Civil War to Civil Rights — and on to the present — the Digital Library of Georgia chronicles the evolving relationships between black and white Georgians. While the DLG is physically located on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, its electronic presence is available to anybody […]
Clearwater High program putting Kindles in students' hands attracts national attention — and Shirl offers some commentary
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|Clearwater High program putting Kindles in students’ hands attracts national attention As experiments go, Clearwater High School’s pilot program to put a Kindle e-reader in the hands of every student, with the hope of replacing textbooks entirely, was a bold one. At stake: Can kids learn as well as they play on digital devices? Will […]
Hellman on "HarperCollins and the Suspension of eBook Disbelief", Weinberger Asks if HarperCollins Has Lost Its Mind or Soul
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|Another must read from the “Go to Hellman” blog. Three paragraphs from the 1300+ word blog post: The current library situation, however, does a great job of erecting an availability barrier. eBooks are so popular that in most libraries, many books have long waiting lists. Patrons are pushed towards less popular titles, which is a […]