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Download Full Text, Free Report is available in English and French From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides essential data for analysing and measuring world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. Reliable statistical information is often considered as the first step during the preparation of making […]
From Thomson Reuters: For the tenth consecutive year, ScienceWatch.com Webmaster Spyder Schafer presents the 10th annual “Top 20” listings of countries which, according to the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators, achieved particular distinction based on their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 2001 through August 31, 2011, a 10-year plus 8-month […]
From an Article by Stephen Shankland: …the use of mobile devices reached an all-time high in December, accounting for 7.7 percent of browser usage according to Net Applications’ measurements of daily visits to its network of 40,000 Web sites. That may still be a small fraction of total Web traffic, but it’s a large and […]
From The Economic Times: Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister Srikant Kumar Jena today launched two new statistical products, ‘DevInfo India Version 3.0’ and ‘The Statistical Year Book 2012’, offering socio-economic data and a range of analytical tools. “These two statistical products are our attempt to keep in tune with the latest technology so as to […]
Via Europeana: A new report, Culture on the Go, from UK web-watchers CIBER Research, shows how access to information is changing as people search for, read and use information on the move. A growing proportion of web browsing happens on smartphones like the new Mac iPhone 4S and tablets like the iPad, and no longer […]
From NM Incite: To friend or to de-friend, that is the question. New research from NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey company, reveals that there are innumerable factors that help Facebook users decide to add a friend or cull someone from the fold, though knowing someone in real life is the top reason cited for friend-ing […]
Librarian Salaries: Association of Research Libraries Publishes 2010-2011 Salary Survey
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|From an ARL News Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010–2011, which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in 125 ARL member libraries during 2010–2011. Data are reported for 10,037 professional staff in the 115 university ARL libraries and for 3,709 professional staff in the […]
Research Libraries: ARL Publishes 2009-2010 Statistics
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|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published ARL Statistics 2009–2010, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of the 125 ARL member libraries in 2009–2010. Of these, 115 were university libraries (18 in Canada and 107 in the US); the […]
The report was released this morning. From the Pew Research Center: Highlights Text messaging is a global phenomenon. Across the 21 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, a median of 75% of cell phone owners say they text. Texting is widespread in both wealthy nations and the developing world. In fact, […]
A presentation by Jackie Dooley, OCLC Research and SAA Vice President/President-Elect. 36 Slides;.pptx. Dooley’s presentation took place at the RLUK Member’s Meeting on November 25, 2011 in London. Direct to Slides