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First posted in 2002. The Library of Congress, Free Web Access to the LC Authority Files At the beginning of July the Library of Congress began providing FREE “trial” public access to the LC Authority File via the LC Authorities site. For the cataloging community access to these files can serve many purposes. Four files (Subject, [...]
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Archives’ record-keeping lapse National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory....
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From the Article: National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory. Many [...]
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From the Article: In 1961 a new edition of an old and esteemed dictionary was released. The publisher courted publicity, noting the great expense ($3.5 million) and amount of work (757 editor years) that went into its making. But the book was ill-received. It was judged “subversive” and denounced in the New York Times, the Chicago [...]
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NTIA Unveils Program to Help States Map Internet Infrastructure (PDF; 21 KB) The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced details of a grant program to fund collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning, which will assist NTIA in creating a national broadband map. This initiative...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
This is the final episode of Tech for Techies. The show will return to the Twilight Zone from where it came (for the time being). Stephen talks about broadcast transmission, be it radio, television or cellphones. Another Federal Government PSA from the Census Bureau, Profile America. My close explains the present situation at Erie Looking Productions. In connection with what I bring up in the close,...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
From an Article: While Google agreed to share the revenues with the publishers and authors, libraries, some consumer rights groups and other parties are worried that Google would have solitary and overwhelming control over access to “orphan books”—titles whose authors and rights-holders have essentially abandoned. Source: Paid Content (via Forbes)
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
From the Article: Social Security Administration (SSA) officials plan to hire a contractor to monitor what the public is saying about their agency on social media Web sites such as MySpace, Twitter and YouTube, according to a contract request from SSA. The agency wants to monitor a type of information created and shared by the public [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
One of the catchphrases on the internet is “Information wants to be free.” This creates the impression that anything you come across online is free for the using. Not quite.
LisNews (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (for the best opening line to a fictitious novel) was won by this gem of a sentence: "Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the 'Ellie May,' a sturdy whaler Captained...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
She was called the Miracle Girl in Peru. Now she's a librarian for the Zoological Centre in Munich. Yet she has a story to tell - a story of sheer luck, survival, and courage. She was the only survivor of the crash of a LANSA flight in 1971. As it happens, her adventure was only beginning after she survived a three kilometer free fall into the jungles of the Amazon rain forest. More from CNN .
Intute: Social Sciences Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Media and communications research Informing innovation tracking student interest in emerging Library technologies at Ohio University. – Association of College and Research libraries report shows how students use web 2,0 technologies and how libraries can adopt and apapt the new technology. How teens use media – market research by Neilsen. Are they abandoning their TVs for the [...]
LisNews (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Webcast — 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design techniques will set you on the road [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
From a Wikimedia Post: Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository shared by Wikipedia and all other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, has been a wonderful success story, having grown to more than 4.5 million educational, freely usable media files since its inception in 2004. But the combination of the complexity of free content licensing and the [...]
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Ironic Software has released today OpenMeta , a new open sourced standard for metadata on OS X. OpenMeta, working with established OS X technologies, ushers in a new wave of standards based document management solutions. These solutions can scale from single laptops through to large organizations. Ironic is also releasing free tools to work with the OpenMeta standard. 'Tagger' is an application that...
emgra17 | 12/12/2008
MsLuLupReGo asked: My brother has been taking acai berry for 2 1/2 weeks and has lost 12 pounds so far…I would like to know if it is safe for breastfeeding moms to use. I tried looking on the kelleymom.com website but I found nothing. Does anyon...
patrickguillard | 11/20/2008
From now on, more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States are available online
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