MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2017
From the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) The National Center for Education Statistics has released The Condition Of Education 2017. The Condition of Education is a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The 2017 Condition of Education report presents 50 indicators on topics ranging from […]
Comment from infoDOCKET Founder/Editor Gary Price: It would interesting (and useful) to research and learn how many of these books and other sources are available REMOTELY and 24x7x365 (with a library card) from various public libraries around the U.S. and if library users were aware of these services/resources vs. paying for access to a collection. […]
Data: Fastest-Growing Large Cities in the United States, 2016 and More Updated Population Estimates
|From the U.S. Census: Ten of the 15 fastest-growing large cities were located across the South in 2016, with four of the top five in Texas, according to new population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Conroe, Texas (near Houston), was the fastest-growing large city (population of 50,000 or more) between 2015 and […]
Library of Congress Places Digital Collection of Nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online (with More to Come)
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News
|From LC: The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000. The online collection now features maps published prior to 1900. The states available include […]
1. HathiTrust Libraries Propose to Retain More than 16 Million Volumes in the Shared Print Program (via HT Update; May 2017) 2. Canada: Prince Edward Island Libraries Are Ending Overdue Fines for Children’s Materials (via The Guardian) 3. Facebook Introduces a Redesigned “Trending” Page (via Facebook Newsroom)
From The Washington Post: Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday. [The new service is named Google Attribution]. [Clip] The new credit-card data enables the tech giant to […]
From a Marshall Project Blog Post, “The New Tool That Could Revolutionize How We Measure Justice” by Beth Schwartzapfel: The enormity of the country’s criminal justice system — 15,000 state and local courts, 18,000 local law enforcement agencies, more than two million prisoners — looks even more daunting when you consider how little we know […]
From the National Center For Education Statistics: U.S. students scored, on average, about the same as their international peers on a financial literacy assessment in 2015, according to a new report released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Results for U.S. students were not significantly different from their performance on the same […]
From IUPUI: As the Indianapolis Motor Speedway prepares to add another chapter to its history with the upcoming 101st running of the Indianapolis 500, the University Library Center for Digital Scholarship at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is continuing to preserve some of the historic items that have been a part of “The Greatest Spectacle in […]
New Journal Article: “Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity”
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|The following article was recently published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Title Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity Author Kathryn M. Conrad University of Arizona Press Source Volume 20, Issue 1 2017 doi:10.3998/3336451.0020.106 Abstract Libraries have a long and distinguished history of publishing, since their earliest days. Traditionally libraries published to expose their collections […]