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Now Online: The January/February 2011 Edition of CLIR Issues
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
Articles In The Latest Issue (no. 79) Include: Extent of Orphan Works Examined in New Publication Series CLIR has launched a new publication series, “Ruminations.” The series will feature short research papers and essays that bring new perspective to issues related to planning for and managing organizational and institutional change in the evolving digital environment […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]
From an OAS (Organization of American States) News Release: The Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) today officially launched the Database of Migration Legislation in the Americas (MILEX), as part of an effort to promote a better understanding of migration phenomena with a comprehensive, objective, and long-term approach to […]
Editorial From a Canadian Newspaper: "Libraries Can Lead Us Into a Digital Future"
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
This editorial was published today in the Nanaimo (British Columbia) Daily News and is also posted on Canada.com. The headline is wonderful to read but the actual article needs some work. The editorial focuses on the public libraries of the Vancouver Island Regional Library. Libraries are becoming a less important source of reference material. The […]
From a FDLP (Federal Depostitory Library News) Article: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) recently received approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to proceed on two collaborative efforts. One project involves the digitization of some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents and the other […]
A blog post and infographic with facts and stats about photographs (who uploads them, who tags them, etc.) on Facebook. The post and infographic come from Pixable, a photo management service for online photos. The company says they have more than one million users. Here are just a few of the stats you’ll find: Women […]
As many of you have probably heard by now Borders Books filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11) today. In addition to a couple of overview articles at the bottom of this post, here are links to a new web site and several documents: Borders Reorganization Web Site Some of the Material Online as of Today + […]
From the Abstract of a Law Library Journal Article (Vol. 103 no.1): [Laura] Justiss conducted a survey of law firm librarians in 2010 that identified electronic research database alternatives to LexisNexis and Westlaw and ranked them by subscription frequency. The survey also generated information regarding suggested or mandated legal research policies in law firms for […]
From the Muse News (February, 2011) MUSE just added back issues for six more titles. Five of the six now have their complete run in MUSE, meaning that subscribers to those titles have access to Vol. 1, iss. /no. 1 through the most recent issue of the journal. All archival content is made available to […]
This full text report comes from comScore. The 2010 Mobile Year in Review is a free download but you’ll need to register to get the link to the document. comScore presents the inaugural Mobile Year in Review report, a look at the top trends in mobile throughout 2010 and their implications for the coming year. […]
