MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2012
Via a Chicago Tribune Post by Blair Kamin: The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat today unveiled “The Skyscraper Center,” an interactive global database that it bills as as offering “detailed profiles and images on every completed building in the world taller than 200 meters,” plus buildings in other stages of development. [Clip] There’s a nice […]
From the Complete Earnings Announcement w/ Financials (33 pages; PDF) Revenue increased – £1.28bn (2010: £1.23bn); organic revenue growth of 3.9% (excluding IPEX) Profit increased – adjusted operating profit up 7.3% to £336.2m (2010: £313.2m); organic growth of 7.9% (excluding IPEX) Margin increased – adjusted operating margin of 26.4% (2010: 25.5%) Adjusted profit before tax […]
New Online from U.S. Census: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2011
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, School Libraries
|From a U.S. Census Release/Summary: In March 2011, for the first time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of people this age had this level of education. “From 2001 to 2011, […]
Syracuse University Library Prepares to Launch Marcel Breuer Digital Archive
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|From the Syracuse U. Library: On Friday, March 23rd, Syracuse University Library will launch the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive. The website represents a collaborative effort headed by the Library to digitize over 30,000 drawings, photographs, letters, and other materials related to the early career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture […]
White House Unveils 'Privacy Bill of Rghts' Initiative
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|From The Hill: The White House announced a set of principles for protecting consumers’ privacy online Thursday and promised to work with Congress to enact them into law. The guidelines, dubbed a “Privacy Bill of Rights,” spell out how Web companies should handle user information. The White House declared that consumers have a right to […]
From the California State University System News Release: The California State University [has] announced partnerships with Cengage Learning, CourseSmart® and Follett that will provide more than 5,000 of the most popular eTextbooks at discounted prices as part of a systemwide digital textbook rental program. [Clip] Beginning in the fall, students will be have the choice […]
Via PW: J.K. Rowling has a new book…and it’s not for kids. The author has signed a world English deal with Little, Brown, selling print, e-book and audio rights to her first novel for adults. David Shelley, publisher of the Little Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be editing the work, which is currently untitled; […]
JHU's Winston Tabb is the Winner of ALA's 2012 Patterson Copyright Award Winner
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|via ALA’s District Dispatch: Winston Tabb, Dean of Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University is the 2012 recipient of the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award: In Support of Users’ Rights. Mr. Tabb was appointed to the National Board of the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) by President Obama in […]
Digitizing Documents in India With the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP)
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News
|An article made available by Simon Fraser University in British Columbia provides a firsthand report by SFU alumnus Kyle Jackson about a trip he took to India as part of an Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) pilot project. Here’s a small portion of the article: I was in Mizoram as a part of a four-member pilot-project […]
From an Announcement: The Associated Press is working with Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) to digitize its unique video archive, making it available to a whole new audience across digital platforms. AP’s film and tape archive contains around 70,000 hours’ worth of footage, including more than 1.3 million global news and entertainment stories, in 16mm film […]