MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2011
Tennessee State Library and Archives Painstakingly Saves Old State Supreme Court Records
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From The Tennessean Wearing a heavy apron and armed with scissors, a brush, a sponge, pliers and a magnifying glass, Todd Wallwork huddles over a table in the basement of the Tennessee State Library and Archives and tends to a seemingly endless flow of Tennessee court records dating back more than two centuries. Delicate work with […]
Video Presentation: Rebecca Guenther on "Change in the Digital Age: Metadata Trends for Libraries"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Resources
|Here’s a video (it runs one hour) of Rebecca Guenther’s November 16, 2011 metadata trends presentation at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. The event was sponsored by METRO and ACRL/NY. Metadata has become a key piece in managing and discovering information resources in the digital environment. This event is intended for professionals and students […]
Released by the U.S. Census today. From the Release Announcement: Between 2007 and 2010, the poverty rate for school-age children showed a statistically significant increase in about 20 percent of counties across the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates for income and poverty in 2010 for every county and school district. In all, […]
Note: Full text search and snippets are free to all. Various payment plans to view full text. Details below. From the Announcement (Also Includes Video and Images): The British Library and online publisher brightsolid today launch a website that will transform the way that people use historical newspapers to find out about the past. The […]
Denmark: Libraries Get Into the Digital Book Business
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the Copenhagen Post: Libraries across the country have begun loaning out for free what Danish publishers have been struggling to sell: ebooks. The libraries’ new digital book loan service is called eReolen. It began on November 1 with a selection of just over 1,800 Danish-language digital books (alternately referred to as ebooks or e-books) […]
From the IDG News Service (via ITWorld): Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent “peers,” users who have […]
"Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records" + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Washington Post: President Obama on Monday ordered agencies to make wider use of digital-based record-keeping systems in what aides promise will be the most significant change to government archiving since Harry S. Truman’s presidency. “The current federal records management system is based on an outdated approach involving paper and filing cabinets,” Obama said […]
WIPO Meeting: SCCR Releases Draft Compilation on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|UPDATE: Written comments on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives until end of February 2012. Details here. From the International Federation of Library Associations: The marathon 23rd session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights continued at WIPO over the weekend. Discussion on Saturday concerned a proposed WIPO Draft Treaty for the […]
From an EPA News Releases: As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to enhance the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s chemicals management program and increase transparency, the agency is making available to the public hundreds of studies on chemicals that had been treated as confidential business information (CBI). The move is part of EPA’s plan […]
Research: Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Reports, Resources
|Title: Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis By: Oksana L. Zavalina Via: University of North Texas This article discusses free-text collection-level subject metadata in large-scale digital libraries. Metadata is central for information organization in digital libraries. A growing number of digital libraries worldwide are now generating metadata to describe […]