MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2012
From the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group Blog: Good news from Germany. The German National Library changed its licensing regime for Linked Data to CC0 which makes the data open according to the open definition, has begun to publish the German national bibliography as Linked Open Data. Read the Complete Blog Post Direct to Linked […]
From The Library of Congress: "The Non-Profit Sector in the United States: A Guide to Selected Information Sources"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|Provided by Business Reference Services at The Library of Congress. Mykhailo Kryvoruchko, Edmund Muskie Fellow, Summer 2011 Carolyn Larson and Gulnar Nagashybayeva, Editors, September 2011 Direct To Document: The Non-Profit Sector in the United States: A Guide to Selected Information Sources This guide focuses on selected print and electronic resources related to the non-profit sector […]
From a GigaOm Report by Kevin Tofel: Siglio Press is offering 250 signed and numbered copies of a limited edition print book that requires a webcam and computing device to actually be read. Why? The print pages — a back-and-forth series of letters between two lovers — only have glyph-like symbols on the page. The […]
Texas Tech University Begins Digitizing Collection of Vietnam Refugee Documents
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Funding, News
|From The Daily Toreadoer The Texas Tech Vietnam Center and Archive received a grant to begin the three-year long process of digitizing their collection of documents of war refugees in Vietnam during World War II. They received the grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, said Mary Saffell, assistant director of the Vietnam […]
From the Calgary Herald: The Calgary Public Library set a borrowing record in 2011, making it the sixth-busiest municipal library system in North America, behind only Toronto, three New York City libraries and Los Angeles. Borrowing in 2011 was up more than a half million from the previous year. A record 17 million items were […]
From The Measure: Forget about electricity, running water, modern sanitation and food preservation; what did people do before GIFs? Well, it turns out that some were busy entertaining themselves with stereoscopes, instruments that allowed people to view 3D images from two slightly different photographs superimposed on top of one another. The New York Public Library […]
From the MapLight Blog: MapLight announces the launch of its Company pages (Beta) for U.S. Congress and the CA and WI Legislatures. The new Company pages profile top contributing companies and organizations, ranking them according to the total contributions they have made, documented bill positions they have taken, and bill positions they have “won.” Company […]
New research from a Google/Ipsos Partnership. From a Google Mobile Ads Blog Post: Mobile devices are mainstream. In fact, according to our newest research more consumers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan use a mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone) than a computer (desktop or laptop). But our most significant findings centered on […]
From Apps.gov: FAA Mobile works on a number of devices. Users can look up airport status and delays, read aviation news and the FAA’s Flight Standards District Office “lookup” allows users to opt into location services to determine the office closest to their location. In all, FAA Mobile allows the user to: Look up U.S. airport status […]
From a Text Summary: Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, expanding their collections of e-books they can loan to patrons. That trend has 3M’s attention. The company has a long history of serving libraries. And 3M sees a big business opportunity in helping libraries build, manage […]