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Maria Pallante Appointed 12th Register of Copyrights
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|From an LC News Release: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Maria A. Pallante as the 12th Register of Copyrights and director of the United States Copyright Office, effective today. Pallante served as the Acting Register for the past five months, following the retirement of Marybeth Peters on December 31, 2010. In announcing […]
Digital Public Library of America Releases Details About "Beta Sprint"
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|The Beta Sprint program was first announced two weeks ago. Today, complete details about the “sprint” were released. From a Berkman Center (Harvard Law School) Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee is delighted to announce today a Beta Sprint that aims to surface innovations that could play a part in the […]
New Statistics Available: Bowker Releases Annual Book Production Report
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|From a Bowker News Release: Traditional publishing grows a modest 5%, while POD sends print total over a record 3 million Bowker [has] released their annual report on U.S. print book publishing, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of e-books, […]
From The Globe and Mail: Today, many Canadian children have never even seen a school librarian and never will. Nova Scotia has none, and the full-time equivalent of just three are left in all of New Brunswick. At least one school board in Ontario hasn’t had a teacher-librarian in 15 years, and numbers have declined […]
Full Text of 2010 BSA (Business Software Allince) Global Piracy Study (8th Annual) Personal computer softare piracy up 14% globally in 2010. From a Summary: Key findings of the 2010 BSA Global Software Piracy Study: While the number of PCs shipped to emerging economies in 2010 accounted for more than 50 percent of the world […]
Word that bookmark sharing site Delicious has been sold by Yahoo and acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube. Their new company is named AVOS. Yahoo will continue to operate Delicious until approx. July 2011. Once the transition period ends data will be moved to new Delicious owner (aka their servers) […]
From an AFL-CIO Now Blog Post While 25 million unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers are drowning, CEO pay skyrocketed by 23 percent, for an average salary of $11.4 million in 2010, according to the AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch. Released today, data compiled at PayWatch also show CEOs have done little to create badly-needed jobs, instead sitting […]
Houston: "Elegy for Librarians: After All the Budget Cutting's Done, Who'll Be Around to Help Us Ask the Sharper Questions?"
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|The Houston Chronicle’s Editorial Board deserves recognition for this editorial from just about every info pro organization. Read it and make sure to save or bookmark to reread on “rainy days.” From an Editorial in the Houston Chronicle: If librarians seem distracted these days, you can’t blame them. They’re worried that they’ll lose jobs. As […]
From TribLocal.com Walk into most any suburban library and you’ll likely find not only rows of computers, but enclosed labs where lifelong learners discover how to search the Internet for a job, make friends on Facebook and use programs such as Excel. “Libraries have always been committed to promoting reading and literacy,” said Roberta Stevens, […]
NOAA — New Website Tracks Coastal, Ocean Investments and Successes by State
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|New Website Tracks Coastal, Ocean Investments and Successes by State NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) has launched a new interactive web page that shows the scope of coastal program investments and successes in NOAA’s 34 partner states and territories. Using the latest GIS/web technology, OCRM in Your State lets users click […]