MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2016
Kudos Theresa! From the Introduction to the Interview by The Atlantic’s, Adrienne Green: Theresa Quill, a research librarian at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializes in the relationship between geography and cultural behavior, and digital mapping. While she assists students in the same ways librarians traditionally have, she also works on projects like making maps based on […]
From the Bureau of Transportation: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) [recently (July 22, 2016) updated National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data. NTS, updated quarterly, includes a wide range of national transportation information. NTS consists of more than 260 tables of national data on the transportation […]
The following article appears in the Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication published by Purdue University. Title Write up! A Study of Copyright Information on Library-Published Journals Author Melanie Schlosser The Ohio State University Source Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication Volume 4 (2016) p.eP2110 Abstract INTRODUCTION Libraries have a mission to educate users about […]
Published online today by the EU Parliament Research Service (EPRS). From the Introduction: The referendum held in the United Kingdom on 23 June on the question of whether to remain in, or leave, the European Union resulted in 51.9% of those voting (on a 71.8% turn-out) supporting withdrawal from the Union. Although, formally speaking, the […]
From the Detroit Free Press: After reading about the River Street Anthology in the Detroit Free Press, state archivist Mark Harvey called up its creator, singer-songwriter Matt Jones, and asked how he could help. Now Harvey and the staff at the Archives of Michigan have partnered with Jones to help him digitally preserve local music […]
UPDATE July 25, 2016 Barnes & Noble Announces That Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Is the Company’s Most Pre-Ordered Book Since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007 —- From The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Morgan Reeves vividly remembers the day her elementary school librarian handed her “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” […]
News about a new addition to the Collage: London Picture Archive from the London Metropolitan Archives/City of London. Overall, Collage provides access to more than 250,000 images. From The Evening Standard: An interactive map of ‘lost London’ that gives a ‘unique and rare’ insight to the capital has been created online by the London Metropolitan […]
Report: University of Central Florida’s Hitt Library Will Enlarged, Renovated, and Turned Into 21st Century Library
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|From the U. of Central Florida: UCF’s first building – now called the John C. Hitt Library – is about to undergo a complete transformation that will provide new amenities for students such as an automated book-retrieval system, additional open shelving for materials, 24-hour study rooms, and space for researchers to collaborate. The original library was […]
A report on the Oxford University Press blog about the E-Library Myanmar Project written by Myat Sann Nyein, a librarian living in Myanmar. From the Report/Blog Post: I have been a lifelong librarian in Myanmar since 1985. It is a great pleasure and honor to share the challenges and success of the e-Library Myanmar Project […]
The following full text article appears in the latest issue of the Student Research Journal published by the School of Information, San Jose St. University. Title Open Access Metadata for Journals in Directory of Open Access Journals: Who, How, and What Scheme? Author Lisa E. Cheby San Jose State University Source Student Research Journal, School […]