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This new technical report was written by Yue Wang, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang, and Kenny Zhu from Microsoft Research Asia. From the Abstract: Traditional web search engines treat queries as sequences of keywords and return web pages that contain those keywords as results. Such a mechanism is effective when the user knows exactly the right […]
From an Arizona Daily Star Article: The popularity of the electronic gadgets does not appear to be the death knell, but rather a complement to for paper-and-ink books. The book festival is “the chance to remind people that the book is not yet dead,” said David Laird, former head of libraries at the University of […]
Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
| Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
A New Preprint from Information Technology and Libraries: "Graphs in Libraries: A Primer"
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
“Graphs in Libraries: A Primer” by James E. Powell, Daniel Alcazar, Matthew Hopkins, Robert Olendorf, Tamara M. McMahon, Amber Wu, Linn Collins From the Abstract: Whenever librarians use Semantic Web services and standards for representing data, they also generate graphs, whether they intend to or not. Graphs are a new data model for libraries and […]
Roundup: What's the Mainstream Press Writing About the HarperCollins Story?
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup
UPDATED (Saturday, March 4, 2011): + “Publisher puts new limits on library e-books” (via Chicago Tribune) “This strikes at the heart of what we do,” said Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey, who described electronic media as the new virtual library. “With limited financial resources affecting all libraries across America, people are asking, ‘Why would […]
From a Blog Post by Mark Power (Author of the Briefing Paper) With the growth and constant shift in the mobile space institutions could be forgiven for feeling a little lost as to how to best tackle the issue of delivering content and/or services that are optimised for mobile devices. Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone…app […]
Congratulations to Karen Coyle! Recipient of 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
UPDATE: The full text of the report mentioned below is available online (free). Direct to: Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata (January, 2010) Congrats and Kudos to Karen! From an ALA Announcement: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Outstanding Publication Award recipient for 2011 is Karen Coyle for her “Understanding the […]
Research Paper: "Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement"
| Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing
From a Recently Published Paper From the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing: Authors: Rowland Lorimer (Simon Fraser University), Johanne Provençal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Owen (Simon Fraser University), Rea Devakos (University of Toronto), David Phipps (York University), and Richard Smith (Simon Fraser University). Canada has earned worldwide attention for its general level of digital […]
Research Paper: Who Uses Web Search for What? And How?
| Data Files, Journal Articles, Patrons and Users, Resources
by Ingmar Weber and Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Research From the Abstract: We analyze a large query log of 2.3 million anonymous registered users from a web-scale U.S. search engine in order to jointly analyze their on-line behavior in terms of who they might be (demographics), what they search for (query topics), and how they search […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
