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Via OCLC – “Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presented Shifts in Scholarly Communications Among World Regions at the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill on 7 June 2013. At this event, Dr. Kurzman presented his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 …
Via LLRX.com – Ouch! Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon David Rothman’s review of the newest Kindle Paperwhite E Ink reader from Amazon highlights that the device is still missing text to speech – among the very features Jeff Bezos touted when he unveiled the second Kindle in 2009. …
Backer, Larry Catá and Haddad, Nabih and Teraoka, Tomonori and Wang, Keren, Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation: The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights from the Bottom Up (September 14, 2013). Available at SSRN “With the June 2011 endorsement of the U.N. …
Focus on manager’s role could spark improvement in companies’ ability to manage change “While employers believe a majority of their change management programs succeed initially, a new survey by global professional services company Towers Watson reveals that only one-quarter of organizations are able to keep the momentum going over the long term. The survey blames …
“Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway presented Why Google?: “…[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn’t a big deal.” at the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill on 7 June 2013. During this presentation, she discussed results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, …
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MIT Technology Review: “Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that 45 …
Today’s rankings of the world’s richest people – Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest – Visual charts provide bios. Provides the ability to: Explore – Rank – Plot – Map specific individuals and groups. Includes key data points: citizenships, genders, ages, sources of wealth.
DENTAL SERVICES – Information on Coverage, Payments, and Fee Variation, GAO-13-754, Sep 6, 2013 FEDERAL DATA TRANSPARENCY – Opportunities Remain to Incorporate Lessons Learned as Availability of Spending Data Increases, GAO-13-758, Sep 12, 2013 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – Key Federal Agencies Need to Address Potentially Duplicative Investments, GAO-13-718, Sep 12, 2013 PATRIOT EXPRESS – SBA Should Evaluate the Program and Enhance Eligibility …
“To improve chemical safety and provide more streamlined access to information on chemicals, EPA has built and is populating a new database. This new database, named ChemView, greatly improves access to health and safety data on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It contains information EPA receives and develops about chemicals including …
“Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. Collections of documents, images, videos, and networks are being thought of not merely as bit strings to be stored, indexed, and retrieved, but as potential sources of discovery and knowledge, requiring sophisticated analysis techniques …
The Heart of the Matter – The Humanities and Social Sciences for a vibrant, competitive, and secure nation. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2013. [This report] “identifies three overarching goals: 1) to educate Americans in the knowledge, skills, and understanding they will need to thrive in a twenty-first-century democracy; 2) to foster a society …
