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New: "2011 Report on Link Rot"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From a Free Government Information Blog Post by J,A, Jacobs: How reliable are those URLs in your OPAC? The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive which harvests and preserves relevant digital information from the web, has been producing reports on “link rot” for several years. They define link rot as “a URL that no longer provides direct […]
Access to Information: U.S. Supreme Court hands down a win for FOIA in decision
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From an ALA News Release: Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the case of the FCC vs. AT&T, deciding that corporations do not have the right of personal privacy to prevent the disclosure of documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). At issue in […]
From Reuters: Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organizations and tops last year’s 237 nominees. [Clip] Members of all national parliaments, professors of law or […]
Audio: Sue Polanka Talks With Brewster Kahle About New Internet Archive In-Library Lending Program
Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, Publishing
|Sue Polanka from No Shelf Required talks with Brewster Kahle about the new In-Library Lending Program that the Internet Archive announced last week. Direct to Audio (mp3) See Also: Our Post From February 22, 2010 Announcing the New Program See Also: More No Shelf Required Audio Interviews See Also: Sue Polanka is the Founder/Editor of […]
Gates Foundation Releases Study on Potential Benefits of State Research & Education Networks For Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Public Libraries, Reports
|From an ALA Announcement: A new study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explores potential benefits of state research and education (R&E) networks for libraries. Titled “Connections, Capacity, Community,” the report was developed in response to national investments in state and regional fiber networks through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Currently, there […]
Congratulations to Karen Coyle! Recipient of 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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|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 […]
New from GAO: National Archives: Framework Governing Use of Presidential Library Facilities and Staff
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|From the Summary of a New GAO Report: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) operates presidential libraries for all of the former U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. These libraries received over 2.4 million visits in 2009, including researchers, public program attendees, and museum visitors. Each library is associated with a private foundation, which raised […]
Research Paper: "Who Says What to Whom on Twitter"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The paper was written by Shaomei Wu, Cornell University; Jake M. Hofman, Yahoo! Research; Winter A. Mason, Yahoo! Research; Duncan J. Watts, Yahoo! Research and will be presented at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’11) at the end of March. From the Abstract: We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in […]
Twitter Archive TwapperKeeper Will Continue Online But Lose a Useful Feature
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|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 […]
More Libraries Join the Mobile Web, Eight Recently Release Apps/Sites
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|First, Two Resources From Non-Library Organizations: 1. For Android, iPhone/iPad: “CBC News on your mobile device” (via Canadian Brodcasting Corp.) 2.. Mobile Web Site: Chicago Transporation Authority (CTA) Train Tracker (Rapid Transit) 3. iPhone/iPad Ottawa: Ontario Public Library (Powered by Bibliocommons) This is the second Bibliocommons library to release a mobile app. Edmonton Public Library […]