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"New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers"
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|From the NY Times: …Leary’s research, was in one of the 335 boxes of papers, videotapes, photographs and more that the New York Public Library is planning to announce that it has purchased from the Leary estate. The material documents the evolution of the tweedy middle-aged academic into a drug guru, international outlaw, gubernatorial candidate, […]
Montreal: "Revolutionary Book Scanner Makes Its Debut at McGill Library"
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|From a News Release: The McGill University Library has “gone digital” with five entry level book2net Spirit book scanners and one larger, more sophisticated Book2Net Kiosk device. In place as of one year ago, the Book2Net Kiosk is stationed in McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections department. Up until recently, this was the only book […]
Henry Kissinger Will Donate His Papers to Yale
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|From the AP: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped steer Vietnam war policy, will donate his collection of some one million documents and objects covering his life as a diplomat, teacher and private citizen to Yale University. Yale President Richard Levin said Wednesday the collection will enhance Yale’s archives of 20th century […]
From the EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find data about chemicals. EPA is releasing two databases — the Toxicity Forecaster database (ToxCastDB) and a database of chemical exposure studies (ExpoCastDB) — that scientists and the public can use to access chemical toxicity and exposure data. [Clip] ToxCastDB users […]
Direct to Full Text By: Mikael Laakso1*, Patrik Welling1, Helena Bukvova2, Linus Nyman1, Bo-Christer Björk1, Turid Hedlund1 1 HANKEN School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, 2 Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet. The full text of OA journals and articles […]
For Insititutional Customers: "Over 100 Years of Scientific American Available Online"
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|From a News Release: The Scientific American archive brings together over 100 years of content highlighting advancements in science, technology, and medicine. Institutional customers can now access every issue of Scientific American back to January 1910. Scientific American, part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), entrusted the scanning and digitization of most of the paper archives […]
By Sophie Bury Source: Journal of Information Literacy (Vol. 5, No.1) Direct to Article (PDF; 21 pages) This Canadian-based survey research study investigates the information literacy (IL) instruction practices, attitudes and perceptions of university faculty at York University. Findings are based on results from an online survey distributed to all full-time faculty (1,451 in total) […]
NARA: National Archives and Presidential Libraries Release Pentagon Papers; Direct URL Available
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|From NARA: On June 13, 2011, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Presidential Libraries will release in its entirety the official Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force (commonly referred to as the Pentagon Papers). This is the 40th anniversary of the leak of these Papers by […]
New Report From National Library of France: "Internet Archive: Forecast Study About Perceptions and Expectations of Potential Users"
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|From an Overview Paragraph: Since 2006, the BnF (National Library of France) has been responsible for the legal deposit of internet resources. Automatic harvesting is performed 24 hours a day by the digital legal deposit service. Resources collected are available on a trial basis at the Research Library. During this experimental phase, it was important […]
From A UC Berkeley Library “Romance Collections News” Post: Thirty-two texts of popular French literature from the Bancroft Library’s collection of Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes have recently been digitized and added to ARTFL’s Bibliothèque Bleue Online. Hosted by the University of Chicago, the openly accessible database of now 284 separate livrets (booklets) comprises a single […]