MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2011
Here’s a roundup of a week’s worth of Book Industry Study Group (BISG) ‘BookStat of the Day’ stats presented in a colorful graphical format. The organization makes them available at no charge. More next week. Book Sales by Format in USA in 2010 Non-fiction Dollar and Unit Sales, 2008-2010 Net Revenue for Education (K-12) Publishers […]
Books in Browsers 2011 is over* and we’re compiling as many of the presentations as we can discover. Check this post often for new entries. A complete video archive of all presentations here is now becoming available online. Contributions Welcome! Wednesday Presentations (Books in Browsers Ignite) + Books as Social Objects Presenter: Henrik Berggren, Readmill […]
“Feds tighten belt by cutting agriculture reports” When farmers need to check honey prices so they can decide whether to sell, there’s been a report for that. And when catfish and sheep farmers want to check production in their industries, there’ve been reports for that, too. The U.S. Agriculture Department has kept tabs for decades […]
Now Available, Full Text: Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011 Via UN Pulse: The publication presents comparable, cross-sectoral statistical data and analyses on population, the environment, the state of the economy and connectivity for the Asia-Pacific region, including subregional, regional and global aggregates which help place regional developments in a global context. The […]
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Wikimedia mobile project has reached a really exciting point. When we launched our mobile extension last month, we were replacing a really complicated and critical piece of the mobile infrastructure with a much simpler system. I’m happy to say that it’s worked out so well that we’re taking off the […]
Via London (Ontario) Metro News: A plea to ban pornography at city libraries will be considered next month. Josh Morgan, chairman of the library board, said a request that the library install porn filters on computers will be discussed during the board’s annual review of its Internet policy. [Clip] Others at Thursday’s meeting suggested a […]
National Library of South Africa & 15 South African Academic Libraries Choose WorldCat Local
Academic Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Via Library Technology Guides: The National Library of South Africa and 15 of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions choose WorldCat Local OCLC and Sabinet, OCLC’s partner in South Africa, have signed an agreement to provide WorldCat Local, OCLC’s discovery service, as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources […]
Now Available: Presentations From the Recent Digital Preservation Summit 2011 in Hamburg (All Presentations in English)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation
|The Digital Preservation Summit 20011 took place on October 19-20 in Hamburg, Germany. The event was titled, “Getting Ready for Digital Preservation.” 22 presentations (all of them are available in English) and you can access all of them using this page. Here are direct links to a few of the presentations. Inge Angevaare (Dutch Digital […]
Published by UNESCO. From UN Pulse: The 2011 Global Education Digest, released today by the Institute for Statistics of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), says there are only enough seats for 36 per cent of children who want to enrol in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. The report notes that the global […]
From the IMPACT Web Site: On 25 October 2011 Mr. Khalil Rouhana, Director for digital content and cognitive systems in DG Information Society and Media at the European Commission officially launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence at the IMPACT final conference in London. The IMPACT Centre of Competence aims to make digitisation of historical printed […]