MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2012
From the U.S. Department of Education: The U.S. Department of Education released data today detailing state four-year high school graduation rates in 2010-11 – the first year for which all states used a common, rigorous measure. The varying methods formerly used by states to report graduation rates made comparisons between states unreliable, while the new, […]
From the National Science Foundation (NSF): The National Science Foundation released a report [on Monday] showing that university spending on research and development in all fields continued to increase between fiscal years (FY) 2010 and 2011, reaching $65 billion in FY 2011. This figure represents a 6.3 percent increase from the previous year and includes […]
The DPLA Secretariat has just announced that they will hold several events to celebrate the launch of a DPLA prototype on April 18-19, 2013 at the Boston Public Library. The two-day event will include a brief working day on Thursday, April 18th, followed by a formal reception featuring presentations and a series of interactive exhibits. […]
From The Houston Chronicle: The estimated $600,000 build-out, overseen by County Attorney Vince Ryan, whose department runs the library and has its offices upstairs, is occurring in the space where jurors assembled prior to a new jury building opening last year. Ryan described the library’s former home on the 17th floor as “quiet, calm, empty.” […]
From The Arizona Republic: The Phoenix Public Library has more than 40,000 overdue materials, including books, CDs, audio cassettes and videos. The outstanding fees total about $4.3 million, which includes money owed to the library and a collection agency, according to city officials. [Clip] It’s a problem every library faces. And for Phoenix, which has […]
Library of Congress Releases: “Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services”
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From LC’s Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative: The Library of Congress is pleased to report that we have reached two important milestones with respect to our Bibliographic Framework Initiative: the introduction of a draft data model for web-based bibliographic description and a first meeting of a small group of early experimenters currently exploring the feasibility of the […]
From New Directions in Scholarly Publishing (A UCSD Library Blog): A federal judge in California has for the second time thrown out a lawsuit that accused UCLA of violating copyright law by streaming videos online for student use. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles had previously dismissed the lawsuit […]
The growth of mobile in U.S. continues to boom. From The Pew Internet & American Life Project: The number of cell owners who have used their phones to take a picture has grown from 76% in 2010 to 82% now. The number of cell owners who have used their phones for texting has grown from […]
Alexis Madrigal, senior editor, The Atlantic, interviews Chris Cox, Facebook’s VP of Product about the evolution of the social networking giant. The program runs 49 minutes. A searchable text transcript is also provided. Facebook Vice President of Products Chris Cox discussed the evolution of Facebook. Mr. Cox is an engineer who advises chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg […]
Digitization Projects: New Hampshire Historical Society Works to Digitize Entire Catalogue
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News
|From the Concord Monitor: Bill Dunlap, executive director of the New Hampshire Historical Society, wants to make the past easier to find. So ambitious is Dunlap’s plan of digitizing the society’s massive amounts of information and that of the state’s smaller, local historical organizations, that he dared mention drawing young people away from reality TV. […]