MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2012
From SPARC: SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012 on Monday October 22nd in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the state of the art World Bank facilities and will host a Liveblog and […]
From a Guest Post on the Google Enterprise Blog by Monique le Conge, Department Director, Palo Alto Library: We launched the Chromebooks program [last November] after piloting a few of the devices as an alternative to the laptop lending program that we developed more than five years ago. The old laptop program gave library patrons […]
Conference Presentation: “New Views of the DDC” (International Dewey Users Meeting)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users
|Here are slides from Joan Mitchell’s (DDC Editor in Chief) presentation at the International Dewey Users Meeting (held in conjunction with IFLA/WLIC 2012) on August 14, 2012. The presentation is titled “New Views of the DDC” and runs 32 slides. Mitchell Discusses: Linked Data Proposed Notation Changes (Subdivision, Add Tables) for Archaeological Viewpoint The Religion […]
From a Guest Post on the In Custodia Legis Blog by Betty Lupinacci: Note: The post is based on a presentation she gave to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress. While the Library of Congress’ subject-driven classification system was developed in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, Law’s Class […]
Mr. Jackson chatted with Federal News Radio late last week about the GPOs new deal with Apple to sell ebooks via the iBookStore and GPO ebook sales in general (costs, marketing, etc.). The audio interview is embedded on this Federal News Radio web page. It runs about 7 minutes.
From the SMU Daily Campus (Student Paper at Southern Methodist University): In April 2013, the long-awaited George W. Bush Presidential Center will at last open to the public. Brad Cheves, SMU vice president of development and external affairs, is optimistic for the Center’s eventual opening. “SMU and Dallas [are] the best locations – for accessibility, […]
From a UNL News Blog Post: Mark Twain once said that all ideas are second hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. Oscar Wilde put it more bluntly when he said that talents imitate, but geniuses steal. Matthew Jockers has assembled a way to quantify the spirit of those sayings, particularly when […]
From Arutz Sheva News (Israel): The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem together with the Netherlands signed an agreement on Monday whereby the Dutch government will support the digitization of the files concerning the Dutch Righteous Among the Nations. “Providing easier access for researchers, filmmakers, students and anyone else interested in learning about these […]
Slide Presentation: “Building and Managing Online Communities: Australian Newspapers and Trove”
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|Here’s a new slide deck (78 slides) by Rose Holley from the National Library of Australia about how the library utilizes crowdsourcing for newspaper text correction work. Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program content can be accessed in NLA’s wonderful Trove database. More than five million newspaper pages have been digitised so far. Holley’s presentation took place […]
Note: The new feature is now rolling-out and will be available to all users in the next few days. From VentureBeat: Just weeks after another security breach, cloud storage company Dropbox has added a two-step verification process to help make user accounts more secure. Dropbox has experienced three high-profile instances of security problems in the […]