MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2011
The calendar is provided by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). Direct to Calendar See Also: Key Upcoming Dates on 2012 Campaign Trail (via The Hill) See Also: IFES Election Calendar (Global)
From Xinhua: Beijing’s first human library opened Saturday night, with dozens of readers and six “living books” exchanging their life stories and ideas. In a human library, also called living library, readers borrow and return books as they do in a normal one. But books in a human library are real people who engage readers […]
National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and National Archives of the Netherlands To Become One Organization
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries
|From the Announcement: The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the National Archives will be integrated into one organization. This was decided by the Cabinet on 23 December following a proposal from Secretary of State Zijlstra (OCW: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science). The integration is a logical continuation of the substantial […]
Published by the Mozilla Foundation. Via a Creative Commons Blog Post: Anya Kamenetz and Mozilla have released a great book called Learning, Freedom & the Web. It details many of the activities and ideas generated at Mozilla’s eponymous festival held last year, “a 500 person meta-hackfest that took place in a Barcelona city square,” says […]
From The New York Times: Ms. [Maja] Thomas [a senior vice president of the Hachettte Book Group, in charge of its digital division] of Hachette says: “We’ve talked with librarians about the various levers we could pull,” such as limiting the number of loans permitted or excluding recently published titles. She adds that “there’s no […]
The report runs 86 pages (PDF) and can be accessed here.
Digital Preservation: "Today’s Digital Documents are Tomorrow’s Dinosaurs"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From a Washington Times Op/Ed by Rob Hummel and Jimmy Kemp: Digital preservation for the federal government is a monumental task. One of the challenges facing federal workers is that long before the complete set of records is digitized, those workers will be required to start making copies of the records they just created, a […]
OCLC Responds to the National Library of Sweden Comments From Earlier This Week
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|OCLC’s response to the National Library of Sweden comments re: NLS catalog data and were written by Jim Michalko, Vice President, OCLC Research Library Partnership. They’re posted on the OCLC Cooperative Blog earlier today. From Michalko’s Comments: OCLC is in discussions with the National Library of Sweden about the Library’s recent post to its website. […]
Via California Watch: For the past five years, the Division of the State Architect has erased the entire computer hard drives and copies of records saved on computer servers within a month of an employee’s departure. Those records included all e-mail correspondence, directives, meeting notes and minutes, policy documents, and appointment calendars. Such records help […]
Academic Libraries: Electronic Resource Usage Soars From Off-Campus Locations According to the Latest MINES for Libraries Study
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|A New Report from the Ontario Council of University Libraries (via an Association Of Research Libraries Announcement): The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announce the availability of the final report of a ground-breaking study on the usage of electronic resources: MINES for Libraries: Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services and the […]