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Last December, Bing began adding store-by-store maps of shopping malls around the U.S. available to their desktop search product via Bing Maps. Today, maps for more than 400 malls are available and the other day we learned that shopping mall maps are now accessible on Bing Mobile (m.bing.com). This Bing Blog post has directions on […]
Digitization Project: Get Access To the Earliest Medieval Map of Britain: Digital Gough Map Launched
|From the Bodleian Library at Oxford University: A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic pieces from the Bodleian collections. The findings are recorded on a newly-launched website www.goughmap.org. The fifteen-month AHRC-funded [Arts and […]
NOAA — Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary
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|Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary (PDF) This bibliography attempts to list all of the published research and expert commentary that has resulted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, technical reports released by scientific agencies and institutions, and editorials published in peer-reviewed […]
Here’s your weekly updated with the latest goings on the Google and Google+ beats. We hope you once again find it useful. We hope you share it with colleagues and friends. Google+ Infographic: Keeping Tabs on Google+ Privacy (via PCMag.com) “40 Google+ tips and tricks for power users” (via Computerworld) “Google Adds Page With Updates […]
From the NY Times: Few battles in history have been more scrutinized than Gettysburg’s three blood-soaked days in July 1863, the turning point in the Civil War. Still, there were questions that all the diaries, official reports and correspondence couldn’t answer precisely. What, for example, could Gen. Robert E. Lee actually see when he issued […]
The maps shows 373 centers that the feds hope to close over the next two years. From Computerworld: The targeted data centers range in size from a 195,000-square foot Department of Homeland Security facility in Alabama to four Department of Agriculture data centers, each of less than 1,000 square feet in size. If the White […]
New Issue Alert: The Code4Lib Journal (14) is Now Available Online
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|Released on July 25, 2011. Issue 14 contains 11 articles/books reviews/editorials. Here are abstracts and links. All articles are full text and free. Editorial Introduction: Prioritizing the Future, Collaborating in the Present, and Archiving the Past by Timothy M. McGeary This is an exciting time for libraries and technology, and libraries have the opportunity now […]
Last week we compiled a Google and Google Plus news update that contained a curated collection of sixteen stories.This week there was no summer slowdown at Google (there is never a slowdown at Googleplex) and this week we’re passing along 21 entries (23 stories). We hope you find this week’s roundup useful. Google Plus 1. […]
Direct to Video: Recorded on July 18, 2011 at MIT||| Bio The video runs 92 minutes. From an MIT News Office Summary: For a period on Monday morning, #MediaLabTalk was a trending topic on Twitter — thanks in large part to those who had gathered to hear LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman speak at MIT, both […]
New Interactive Map Reveals U.S. Tidal Energy Resources Tidal energy — a renewable, predictable resource available up and down America’s coastlines — holds great promise for clean energy generation. And now, a first of its kind database gives researchers deeper insight into the potential of this energy resource for the United States. The online database, […]