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Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
From the Map Hompage: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within […]
NARA: National Archives Releases 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From a NARA News Release: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the release of the 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report. In May 2010, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) to Federal agencies. This followed the pilot self-assessment that was completed in 2009. The goal of the self-assessment is to determine […]
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 […]
Roundup: What's the Mainstream Press Writing About the HarperCollins Story?
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup
|UPDATED (Saturday, March 4, 2011): + “Publisher puts new limits on library e-books” (via Chicago Tribune) “This strikes at the heart of what we do,” said Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey, who described electronic media as the new virtual library. “With limited financial resources affecting all libraries across America, people are asking, ‘Why would […]
Study shows medical professionals write inappropriate tweets Three percent of the tweets composed by self-identified medical practitioners are unprofessional and may violate privacy laws, a recent study conducted by a professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences found. Types of unprofessional behavior identified in the tweets included profanity, sexually explicit material, discriminatory statements, […]
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 […]
Antitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in the e-book publishing sector The European Commission can confirm that on 1 March 2011 Commission officials initiated unannounced inspections at the premises of companies that are active in the e-book (electronic or digital books) publishing sector in several Member States. The Commission has reason to believe that the companies […]
From a Secrecy News Article: Dozens of public interest groups wrote to the Librarian of Congress last week to urge him to appoint a new Director of the Congressional Research Service who would work with Congress to promote public access to CRS reports. “The public needs access to these non-confidential CRS reports in order to […]
From a Blog Post by Mark Power (Author of the Briefing Paper) With the growth and constant shift in the mobile space institutions could be forgiven for feeling a little lost as to how to best tackle the issue of delivering content and/or services that are optimised for mobile devices. Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone…app […]