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The Puget Sound Business Journal has made a salary database available for the City of Seattle workers. [You can access the] salary of any city worker and see how the salary changed from 2007 to 2010. You can enter a full or partial name. The database has more than 40,000 records, so it may take […]
Twitter Archive TwapperKeeper Will Continue Online But Lose a Useful Feature
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
TwapperKeeper is a service allowing users to create personalized and permanent archives of tweets. Users can create archives based on keywords, hashtags, and from specific users. The basic service is free. Many use the service to archive tweets from conferences they are organizing or attending. TwapperKeeper also offers keyword searching and direct permalinks. Another feature […]
Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? People who turn to the Census Bureau’s latest data release in an effort to answer Sesame Street’s musical query may, in some cases, be puzzled by what they find. The detailed race, ethnicity and population counts make it easy to look up data for any block in America. […]
University of Missouri: "MU Libraries Emphasize Digital Archives"
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From an Article Appearing in The Maneater (Student Paper at the University of Missouri): The library both digitizes collections it already has and purchases new material that originates online, such as online journals and databases. The process of digitization is funded partly through grants. Students and scholars have gravitated toward online resources because of their […]
Archives: European Film Gateway Project Publishes Report About Copyright Issues
| Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
From an EU Screen Blog Post: In order to bring archival materials held in film archives online and giving access to them, rights clearing is a central topic in the framework of the EFG project. EYE Film Institute, one of EFG’s project partners, has established a report on Guidelines for Copyright Clearance and IPR Management. […]
From a FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) Announcement: In continuing the strong partnership between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Federal depository libraries nationwide, GPO is encouraging all interested depositories to crawl its Federal Digital System (FDsys) in order to provide distributed access to content. In order to improve the ability for crawlers to […]
From an Post on Torotoist: If the Urban Affairs Library at Metro Hall doesn’t remain open once this year’s budget wrangling is over with, it won’t have been for lack of opposition. At a rally today in front of Metro Hall, about twenty people—most of them connected with the TPL workers’ union, CUPE Local 4948—spoke […]
Internet Archive's Open Library Launches In-Library eBook Lending Program, More than 80,000 Titles Available
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
The OpenLibrary (an initiative of the Internet Archive) continues to not only be a first-rate resouce to search, find, and access e-books for free. They’re also an innovative organization not afraid to try new idea. Today’s announcement is the first we’ve seen from Open Library specifically for users of libraries from around the U.S. how […]
1. Libya’s Oil Exports (Infographic from RIA Novosti) 2. The BBC Has Oosted an Interactive “Gaddafi Family Tree” A look at the roles and relationships of the Libyan leader’s closest family, amid ongoing protests and violence across the country. Hat Tip and Thanks: Visual Loop See Also: Libya Background Note (via U.S. State Dept) See […]
The 2011 list from The Economist/Economist Intelligence Unit is now available. Four Australian and three Canadian cities are are on the list with all of the Canadian cities in the Top 5. Top 5 1. Vancouver 2. Melbourne 3. Vienna 4. Toronto 5. Calgary From a Article on Ecomomist.com The ranking scores 140 cities from […]
