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"IGI Launches Advances in Library Information Science Newsletter"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing, School Libraries
From a Post on No Shelf Required: IGI Publishing launched the inaugural issue of the Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS) Newsletter today. The newsletter provides a value-added tool that gives a pre-publication, no-strings-attached glimpse into the library and information science content. The Editor-in-Chief for the IGI ALIS series is Mirela Roncevic, formerly with Library […]
NLM 175: Upcoming Events and Milestones at National Library of Medicine
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Preservation, Reports
As many of you know the National Library of Medicine (the world’s largest library of library of the health sciences and collections) in Bethesda, MD is celebrating their 175th anniversary in 2011 with many events, a special web site, a couple of contests and more. An recent announcement reminded us of two special events taking […]
Here’s a sampling of numbers from a new Twitter blog post: 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago. 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month. 572,000. […]
A busy day for new online resources from the U.S. Government. First, the launch of FOIA.gov and now a new subdomain of the Data.gov clearinghouse of data sets has also gone live: Law.Data.gov. From a Tech President Article: The site is, of course, a subdomain on the U.S. federal government’s data clearinghouse site Data.gov.” Administrative […]
From an Article by Jeremy Olshan, New York Post: While most New Yorkers keep just a few dozen restaurant menus in a kitchen drawer, the library has more than 40,000 in its stacks, listing eats ranging from the 1843 fare at the Astor House to the 2010 offerings at Chipotle. “It’s a record of what […]
"Hebrew University's Einstein Archives To Go Online"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, News
From an Article by Ben Hartman (Jerusalem Post): Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist’s archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives […]
The USGS has made a color poster available (download online) with maps and other earthquake information from Friday’s disaster in Japan. It’s a free download. Some of the things you’ll find include: + Map showing earthquake maginitude and depth + Did You Feel It”‘ map (From reports made by the public) + A seismic region […]
From a U.S. Department of Justice Announcement: The Department of Justice marked the start of Sunshine Week today with the launch of FOIA.gov, the “flagship initiative” of the department’s Open Government Plan and one of the most significant contributions yet toward making this the most transparent administration in history. “The Administration’s openness initiatives are central […]
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): Last week’s massive earthquake in Japan—and subsequent tsunami—has caused an untold number of deaths and tremendous damage. IFLA extends our deepest sympathy and sorrow to our Japanese colleagues as they struggle to deal with the damage to their lives and their country. The IFLA post […]
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