Day archives: February 15th, 2014

Lorcan Dempsey’s slides from Offline Conference

“OCLC Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist Lorcan Dempsey presented “Scale, engagement, innovation: library directions” at the Montana Library Association’s Offline Conference on 7 February 2014 in Helena, Montana. Infrastructure, engagement, innovation: library directions from Lorcan Dempsey Key highlights from the presentation include: Montana in the cultural record: fictional accounts of ranch life, Indian wars Libraries deliver distinctive value locally by …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Public libraries providing citizens with tools and access to health care information

Libraries Serve As Health Insurance Info Hubs: “Libraries have always been more than book lenders, providing services that include early childhood education, employment assistance and computer literacy skills. The economic downturn heightened the need for those services, and health information has long been in demand. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) estimates 28 million people sought health information from …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Libraries

Snowden Leaked Documents Reveal NSA Monitoring of Global Law Firm

James Risen reported from Washington, and Laura Poitras from Berlin. Charlie Savage contributed reporting from Washington: “The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers. A top-secret document, obtained by the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Poetry

Annual Report on Assistance Related to International Terrorism: Fiscal Year 2013

U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Bureau of Counterterrorism, February 11, 2014.  Annual Report on Assistance Related to International Terrorism, Fiscal Year 2013 “This report is submitted pursuant to the requirements for a congressionally mandated annual report codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2349aa-7(b). During Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, the U.S. government provided assistance related to …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Youth Perspectives on Tech in Schools: From Mobile Devices to Restrictions and Monitoring

Youth Perspectives on Tech in Schools: From Mobile Devices to Restrictions and Monitoring Published January 15, 2014 Download Paper (SSRN) “This research brief is a contribution by the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Center to its Student Privacy Initiative, which seeks to explore the opportunities and challenges that may arise as educational institutions adopt cloud …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

EC Commission obtains from Google comparable display of specialised search rivals

“The European Commission has obtained an improved commitments proposal from Google in the context of the ongoing antitrust investigation on online search and search advertising. In its proposal, Google has now accepted to guarantee that whenever it promotes its own specialised search services on its web page (e.g. for products, hotels, restaurants, etc.), the services …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines