MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2015
The full text report, ICT Facts and Figures 2015 is linked below (PDF) along with the underlying data in .xls format. From the International Telecommunications Union: The ITU ICT Facts and Figures – The world in 2015 features end-2015 estimates for key telecommunication/ICT indicators, including on mobile-cellular subscriptions, Internet use, fixed and mobile broadband services, home ICT access, and […]
From Business Vancouver: Students at Simon Fraser University (SFU) looking to buy books for the summer semester have one more payment option available to them. SFU is unveiling three Bitcoin ATMs — or automated vending machines (AVMs) — May 26 at campus bookstores in Burnaby, Surrey and downtown Vancouver. [Clip] Students are then able to […]
A New Report from Europeana Looks at What Makes For Good Metadata
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Public Libraries
|The title of the report discussed below is, Report and Recommendations from the Task Force on Metadata Quality. We think many of the concepts discussed in this paper will be of interest to many of you. From a Blog Post Introduction (via Europeana Pro): This report looks at how data partners’ motivation, the technical requirements […]
From Arkansas.com: Local support is crucial for rural libraries, especially at a time when funding is hard to come by, library officials say. The state Legislature in March sliced $1 million in state aid to Arkansas public libraries. “There’s a hunger out there for libraries, but some smaller communities may not have the money to […]
National Library of Ireland Announces Appointment of Dr. Sandra Collins as New Director
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Public Libraries
|From the National Library of Ireland: The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has announced the appointment of Dr Sandra Collins to the role of Director. Dr Collins joins the National Library of Ireland from her role as the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in the Royal Irish Academy. She will take up […]
Director of British Library Says Stop Asking Whether Libraries Will Still Exist in the Digital Age
|From The Telegraph: Stop worrying about whether libraries will survive the digital age, the head of the British Library has said, as he argues that they could outlast the internet. Roly Keating, director of the British Library, said he was shocked at how many “smart people” still questioned whether libraries were still viable in the […]
From The Signpost: On 29 March 2015, the articles were recounted on all of the languages of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity, and Wikivoyage. Wikibooks was left out because, as previously mentioned, the English and Portuguese Wikibooks use the “comma” criterion to determine articles, and the maintenance script does not correctly implement that counting […]
The following preprint is scheduled for publication in the May 2016 issue of College & Research Libraries. Title Employer Perceptions of Critical Information Literacy Skills and Digital Badges Authors Victoria Raish Penn St. University Emily Rimland Penn St. University Source via College & Research Libraries website Abstract Digital badges are an educational innovation used to […]
From Global Web Index: In terms of mobile messaging tools, Snapchat has the youngest audience; a massive 84% of its users are under 35 (by way of comparison, the equivalent figures on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are 63% and 64%). WeChat and LINE can also boast that more than a third of their users are […]
From the AFL-CIO: …CEO pay for major U.S. companies has skyrocketed. According to the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch, CEO pay increased nearly 16 percent in 2014. The Executive Paywatch website, the most comprehensive searchable online database which tracks CEO pay, showed that in 2014, the average production and nonsupervisory worker earned approximately $36,000 per year, […]