MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2013
OpenGeoSci: New Map-Based Discovery Platform Debuts Online, Geographic Searching for More than 300,000 Maps
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From OpenSciGeo and Highwire Press: OpenGeoSci is a free, map-based discovery interface providing geographic searching for more than 300,000 maps, cross-sections, charts, tables, and other high-value content from GeoScienceWorld (GSW) publications (Geology). The advanced technology behind OpenGeoSci is built and hosted by HighWire Press incorporating a design from iFactory. Using a combination of search terms, map […]
Digital Preservation: New Experimental Features Available in LOCKSS
Digital Preservation, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
|From the UK LOCKSS Alliance Blog: The LOCKSS development team have been working hard over the summer to implement new functionality to assist collection administration and management. Three new experimental features are available for use. New Experimental Features 1. Subscription Manager 2. Display Content Status 3. COUNTER reports Details about each of these experimental features can be found […]
From The Daily Mail: Students have transformed historic maps into a 3D video game environments. A number of teams battled it out to win a national initiative that invited them to use maps and engravings from the British Library’s archives to craft a video game. Pudding Lane Productions, a team of six second-year students from […]
Launching Later This Week: New York Public Library’s Shelley-Godwin Digital Archive
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|The site will go live this Thursday (October 31, 2013). Until then, you can learn more about the project here. From NYPL: The New York Public Library’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle is proud to announce the launch of the Shelley-Godwin Archive, a new digital resource that will comprise the manuscripts […]
From The Daily Nebraskan (Student Newspaper): Nancy Busch knows how some students and faculty feel about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries’ plan to remove books from on-campus facilities. “I know that this is an emotional thing for people who have an attachment to what they think a library is,” said Busch, the dean of libraries. […]
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: More internet users are using photos and videos as a social currency: 54% of internet users have posted original photos or videos to websites and 47% share photos or videos they found elsewhere online. Young adults and women lead the way in each of these activities. Cell […]
From The New York Times: Financing New York City’s three public library systems is an annual set piece of political theater, where City Hall proposes reduced budgets that are deplored and haggled over until the City Council restores much of the sum. According to a report last January by the Center for an Urban Future, […]
From the Oxford University Press Archive (via YouTube). A silent film made in 1925 by the Federation of British Industry. This film was one of a series illustrating industrial life and it highlighted the Press’s work to audiences around the world. More Silent Films Re: Oxford U. Press from the Federation of British Industry John […]
Note: The Village of Maywood, IL is located just west of Chicago. From WGN-TV: The public library in suburban Maywood closed its doors Saturday and will not reopen until funding can be secured. It’s a place to read, use a computer and for teens to stay out of trouble. But now, the Maywood Library is […]
Ebooks: “Big Publishers Take Fresh Look at Digital Book Services”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Financial Times (Free Reg Required OR Full Text (Free) via Google Cache, Link Below): Netflix has surpassed 40m global subscribers. Spotify has more than 6m paying users. Digital film and music streaming services are bursting into the mainstream. The same cannot be said for digital book subscription platforms. From Oyster Booksof the US and Madrid-based 24symbols to […]