Information Science

Library Journal Index of Public Library Service 2009, Round 2

LisNews (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Now available at the LJ site.

Library of Congress Updates their Flickr Photochrom Collection

Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday

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 [...]

Digital Map/Database Reveals Israeli Archaeology

Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

From the Article: A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research. [Snip] Project leaders Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC and Rafi Greenberg of Tel Aviv University are expected to [...]

• Digital map reveals Israeli archaeology - Culture Monster

Reading Today: A Nickname for Mike McGinn?

Slog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

We have several poetry readings, several boat-type readings, and a book about looking at Puget Sound like an artist today. Then there are the book events we are actually going to hear about. To wit: Friends of the Library is hosting a Mini-Book Sale today at Magnuson Park. No, the books aren't mini. The sale is mini; they'll only (?) have 10,000 books for sale . At Seattle Mystery Bookshop, it's time...

The Library Routes Project: How Did You Become A Librarian?

LisNews (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

The idea is to document either or both of your library roots - how you got into the profession in the first place, and what made you decide to do so - and your library routes - the career path which has taken you to wherever you are today. As well as being interesting of itself, it will also provide much needed information and context for those just entering the profession or wishing to do so.

Waiting for Info

LisNews (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the long, long wait for information.

Carl Malamud on Robots.txt and the .Gov Top-Level Domain

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From the Post: From the Post: I’m on the board of CommonCrawl.Org, a nonprofit corporation that is attempting to provide a web crawl for use by all. An interesting report just got sent to us about the use of robots.txt files within the .Gov Top Level Domain, a standard known as the Robots Exclusion Standard. In examining about [...]

• Robots.Txt and the .Gov TLD - O'Reilly Radar

Health Research: Online Database: Orphanet

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From the Web Site: Orphanet is a database of information on rare diseases and orphan drugs for all publics. Its aim is to contribute to the improvement of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases. Orphanet includes a Professional Encyclopaedia, which is expert-authored and peer-reviewed, a Patient Encyclopaedia and a Directory of expert [...]

Google Book Search: Amazon.com Files Motion Asking Judge to Reconsider His Preliminary Approval of Settlement 2.0

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James Grimmelmann writes on The Laboratorium: It’s a full-on attack on the settlement; Amazon’s theory is that the future-claims issue is such a fundamental flaw in the settlement that there is no way Judge Chin could ultimately approve it. [Snip] Thus, Amazon argues, Judge Chin should save time and resources, reject this settlement, and give the parties [...]

Huffington Post Readers Select Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director the Media “Game Change” of the 2009

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As they say, one Wikipedia post (see post immediately below his one) deserves another Wikimedia Foundation post, directly above it. What’s up? The Huffington Post reader’s have selected Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that oversees all Wikimedia projects) Executive Director, Sue Gardner, as media “game changer” of 2009. From the HP Post: Changing The Game By: Taking the...

Wikipedia Founder Creates On-Line Source of Help for Tampa Bay’s Homeless

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Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay’s homeless Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area. The new site, tampabayhomeless.wikia.com, was introduced [...]

What happened to Second Life?

LisNews (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

What happened to Second Life? Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. But just as quickly as it had flared, media interest ebbed away. References plummeted by 40% in 2008 and dropped further this year. And businesses diverted their resources back to real life.

Online Video Keeps Streaming Along

Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday

From the Blog Post: The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for October 2009. Year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 26 percent growth in total streams. What’s most interesting is who the number three provider of [...]

Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting (Association of Research Libraries)

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 [...]

Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition

Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday

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 [...]

OpenMeta: new open source document management and metadata for OS X

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...

Is Acai berry supplement compatible with breastfeeding?

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...

Europeana: the new european digital library

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