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“PwC US and CSO magazine today released the 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey, which reveals that while cybercrime threats are on the rise, current attempts to counter them remain largely unsuccessful. According to the report, organizations have made little progress in developing ways to defend themselves against both internal and external cyber opponents. Over 500 …
Katie Rapp, MLS – “The federal government offers many opportunities for LIS students and grads. July 20, 2013 from 10:30 – 11:30 AM EDT Maryland Library Association DEAL (Development of Emerging and Aspiring Librarians) presented a webinar about Careers in Federal Libraries. It was recorded and is available here. Speakers shared information about work at …
Six Sigma as Law Redesign: “Employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw has adapted the business process of Six Sigma into the law firm, and law-client, setting, while also mixing it in with Lean methodology. They call it ‘SeyfarthLean’. Their website gives a basic overview of what the method encompasses — much of which overlaps with human …
“Open Law Lab begins with the idea that law can be more engaging, more usable, and more useful. It proposes that bright law students, professors, researchers, professionals, and makers can build products and services to do exactly this. Under a broad mission of providing innovative ways to increase access to justice, the Lab ventures to …
Computer and Internet Use in the United States: Population Characteristics – by Tom File, May 2013, Census Bureau “In 2011, more Americans connected to the Internet than ever before, although differences continued to exist between those with use and those without. Just as with differences in use, variation in the ways that people were connecting …
Personal. Portable. Participatory. Pervasive. The Digital Landscape in 2013 and its Impact on Communities by Lee Rainie July 18, 2013 at Community Foundations, brought together by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. “Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie discussed the new media ecosystem with leaders of community foundations from Western states and several other …
“The World Wide Web Consortium has rejected a Do Not Track standard proposed by the online advertising industry. The industry proposal would have allowed advertising companies to continue to collect data about the browsing activities of consumers, but would have limited the way companies could characterize users based on that data. The group stated that …
“OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner from King’s College London co-authored this second edition of Preservation Metadata, which focuses on new developments in preservation metadata made possible by the emergence of PREMIS as a de facto international standard. The complete report is available from the Digital Preservation Coalition website – it will be of interest …
“Americans continue to hold the military in high regard, with more than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78%) saying that members of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84% four years ago, the last time the Pew Research Center asked the public to rate various professions. But the …
“[On July 8, 2013] the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), along with 22 other good-government groups, sent a letter to the US Department of Justice urging Attorney General Eric Holder to make public any reports by Inspector General Michael Horowitz regarding the collection of Americans’ telephone records under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. …
Transforming Our Conversation of Information Architecture with Structure by Nathaniel Davis “Information architecture has been characterized as both an art and a science. Because there’s more evidence of the former than the latter, the academic and research community is justified in hesitating to give the practice of information architecture more attention. If you probe the …
Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department Report on Revised Media Guidelines: After conducting a rigorous review of internal Justice Department guidelines governing investigations and other law enforcement matters that involve journalists, Attorney General Eric Holder today released a report outlining several key reforms to the department’s protocols, as well as the …
