Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition (Encyclopedia of Library & Information Science)
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From an e-Mail Announcement: The “Photochrom Travel View” set in Flickr now features more than 750 prints, including scenes in Canada, Wales, Belgium, and (most recently) The Netherlands photographed at the turn of the twentieth century. The Belgian scenes, in particular, feature people at work and recreation, in addition to the striking landscapes and landmark buildings [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From the Release: Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office, today filed testimony for the official record of the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education’s hearing, “Improving Literacy Skills of Children and Young Adults.” The comments highlighted...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From a Blog Post: In the spring of 2008, we visited the websites of nearly 600 public libraries in the United States, including all Colorado public libraries, looking for the presence of web technologies, including those identified as “Web 2.0.” This report details our findings about what public libraries are doing on the web, and the [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
The complete list of papers/presentations available can be found here. The meeting took place October October 14–15, 2009 in Washington, DC. Audio of the presentations is also available. Here are the Titles of the Sessions (Each Session Includes Presentations by One or More Presenters): + New Models for Federal Depository Library Collections: Report on Findings [...]
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From the Announcement: The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will advance technology that can recover and digitally re-master rare early sound recordings made on wax cylinders – including experimental recordings created in the 1880’s by Alexander Graham Bell — even when the original cylinder is cracked or broken. The research project,...
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Its been a week since Settlement 2.0 was released. We have a comprehensive press review along with many related documents from the past week here. Until the next major event and our next press review, we will continue to post Settlement 2.0 news and analysis with a focus on stories, analysis, and opinion that has [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Take a multimedia tour of 14 features that Bing offers up. Each tour stop includes a video overview, some “behind the feature” comments (feel free to skip), and direct links to that specific feature. A useful way to get up to speed on a few features that are unique to Bing. Yes, it’s basically a [...]
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From the Announcement: Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American Collection features original historical documents including: + Ratified Indian Treaties – dating back to 1722 + Indian Census Rolls – featuring...
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From the Article: Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new ‘query by example’ methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. A team of researchers have turned to peer-to-peer...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crossing the digital divide to Grandma’s house How do you get to grandma’s house in the digital age? It’s like asking five New Yorkers how to get to Brooklyn: Everyone’s got a different answer and no one’s necessarily wrong. Say you live in St. Petersburg and grandma lives in Palm Beach. Mapquest would send you southeast from Tampa. [...]
LisNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nook sold out for the holidays If you were interested in buying the Barnes & Noble Nook as a holiday gift, strike it off your list. The e-reader is now officially sold out through 2009, according to the B&N Web site. "The hottest holiday gift is out of stock," a message at the top of the page reads. "Order the Nook today to be first in line for the new year." If this sounds...
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A Never Ending “Virtual Stream” of Digitized Text by Gary Price, Senior Editior When Chris Sherman and I were writing and then giving book talks and presentations about The Invisible Web, we said John Mark Ockerbloom’s Online Books Page was an essential resource for anyone interested in digitized, full text books. Now referred by most as eBooks. [...]
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The blog has a new look that’s very easy on the eyes. You’ll also find links to the District Dispatch RSS and Twitter feeds. If the intersection of the library world with the world of U.S. politics is of interest, District Dispatch (D) is essential reading. So, a ResourceShelf tip of the cap to Jacob [...]
LisNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
MakeUseOf.com story, about the new site, Book Rix , a social network for bibliophiles. "Commonly all book lovers sites revolve around a community. An online ‘town square’ meet-up to see what others are reading and why they reading it. If you club together a few likeminded book lovers, you are bound to come across a lot of books. BookRix is just such a book lovers website, a community...
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From the Article: Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site. It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook’s rights. [Snip] Customers of USocial use it to boost follower and friend numbers on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. On micro-blogging [...]
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prmac | 01/19/2009
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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