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Gates Foundation: Vietnam’s Public Libraries Offer Improved Access to Information and Technology
Awards, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
|From the Gates Foundation Web Site: On November 11, 2011, Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) launches an expanded project focused on the “Improvement of computer usage and public Internet access in Vietnam”, following approval by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Funded by a US$30m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project […]
Title: The Top 25 US Public Libraries Collective Collection as Represented in WorldCat (11 pages; PDF) Author: Brian Lavoie, OCLC Research From the Report: A collective collection is the combined holdings of a group of institutions, with duplicate holdings (i.e., those pertaining to the same publication) removed. This yields the collection of distinct publications that […]
Update (November 15): European Commission claims 95 per cent of citizens have broadband access (via V3.co.uk) Now, to U.S. broadband statistics: From the NTIA Blog: The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a report today entitled Exploring the Digital Nation: Computer and Internet Use at Home (PDF). This […]
Digitization Projects: ProQuest Announces Plans to Digitize NAACP Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a Company Announcement: ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are teaming to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civil rights movement to the online world. The collection — nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries […]
NYPL, NYC Schools Form Partnership for Delivery of Books Directly to Classrooms
Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
|From the Associated Press: A partnership between the New York Public Library and the city’s public school system will for the first time allow teachers to borrow books online and have them delivered directly to classrooms. The Wall Street Journal reports that teachers at more than 50 schools will be able to borrow up to […]
From a Chicago Sun-Times Article: The mayor’s decision to restore $1 million he cut from graffiti removal and vacant lot cleaning and $3.3 million cut from Chicago Public Libraries did please aldermen, however. Instead of laying off 284 employees, libraries would fire 184; and Monday and Friday morning closings would not apply during the 19 […]
Library Journal: All 50 State Librarians Vote to Form Alliance With Internet Archive’s Open Library
|From Michael Kelley at Library Journal: All 50 state librarians have decided to throw their weight behind the Internet Archive’s Open Library lending program. The Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) voted unanimously during a meeting held October 24-26 in Santa Fe, NM, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Internet Archive […]
From KMOX, St. Louis: The public library in Joplin escaped damage from a tornado that devastated the city, but the institution still lost thousands of dollars’ worth of items when residents couldn’t locate the books or DVDs they’d checked out or found the items were too badly damaged to be salvaged. Between 1,200 and 1,500 […]
The video lectures will be available at the New York Public Library at no charge. From NYPL: The New York Public Library (NYPL) and The Floating University, a new educational media venture, have formed a partnership to provide library patrons access to the nation’s most esteemed scholars via a new multi-media lecture series beginning November […]
The article includes several quotes from Jo Budler, Kansas State Librarian on the current state of eBooks in KS. It also includes comments from: Lea Currie, head of collection development at KU Libraries Sherri Turner, assistant director of the Lawrence Public Library From the University Daily Kansan: “We’ve had a contract with OverDrive since 2005, […]