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Video: "Reinventing the Research Library: The MIT Libraries in the 21st Century"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|This video was made available on February 28, 2011 via MIT TechTV. It runs close to nine minutes. The essential role of MIT’s libraries in supporting research, teaching, and student life at MIT continues to evolve. How do the Libraries meet the needs of the MIT community “wherever and whenever” they need library resources? This […]
From the Microsoft Research Community Blog: Project Emporia, a second FUSE Labs project being featured during TechFest 2011, has received a bit of interest in recent months. Debuting on Dec. 7 during the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, the technology found its way into people’s hands a month later, when it was launched as an […]
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, Resources
|How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools To date, federal agencies have largely been on their own in terms of how to manage records created via social media tools. This historically decentralized approach has resulted in some agencies banning the use of social media while other agencies have rapidly […]
Someday, the sun will set on SEO — and the business of news will be better for it There is no question that search generally, and Google (the dominant search provider) specifically, are modern miracles. But it’s worth noting that Google provides a button labeled “I’m feeling lucky” to take users to just one page […]
From the Sydney Morning Herald: THE University of NSW [New South Wales] is throwing away thousands of books and scholarly journals as part of a policy that critics say is turning its library into a Starbucks. Academics say complete journal collections, valuable books and newspapers dating to the 19th century are being thrown out to […]
Slides from a presentation by Adam Chandler (Database Management and Electronic Resources Research Librarian, Cornell U.) at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference 2011 (March 2, 2011). Description of tools the NISO IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics Working group are developing to make dynamic reference linking more effective. Access Slides (via ecommons @Cornell) 31 slides; […]
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 a Technology Review Article: Last month, the Libyan government temporarily cut off access to the Internet within the nation’s borders. The goal was to control the flow of information to the public and disrupt coordination among the demonstrators. The shutdown failed to do either, but for a while it threatened to have an odd […]
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 […]
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 […]