Learn everything you need to know about being safe on a bike in NYC
A new street code for New York cyclists – post Sandy, residents dust off their bicycles and hit the streets to get to their destinations.
Category «Knowledge Management»
New on LLRX – DPLA Grant: Possible Synergy Between Libraries, Schools and Newspapers
Via LLRX.com – DPLA Grant: Possible Synergy Between Libraries, Schools and Newspapers – David H. Rothman, a leading national digital library advocate, continues his series on the evolving framework for the Digital Public Library of America. In this column, he discusses the impact of new program funding from the Knight Foundation. Rothman believes the potential …
NYC/NJ initiatives coordinating volunteer efforts for Sandy's victims
Via WSJ.com: “…the Facebook page of NYC Service, a New York City government initiative which runs a year-round calendar of volunteer efforts, but is now helping to coordinate volunteers for Sandys victims. NYCService urges would-be volunteers to email [email protected] with their name, email address and borough. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg described @NYCService in …
WSJ – Live Updates on Sandy – More than 8 million people have lost power
WSJ.com free again today – live updates: “More than 8 million people have lost power, three nuclear plants have shut down, New York subway faces a massive recovery effort, and Connecticut has re-opened highways.”
WSJ.com offers all readers free access on October 29, 2012
From live Hurricane Sandy storm updates to national and global financial news, all content on WSJ.com is open to non-subscribers October 29, 2012.
The Hygienic Efficacy of Different Hand-Drying Methods: A Review of the Evidence
The Hygienic Efficacy of Different Hand-Drying Methods: A Review of the Evidence. Cunrui Huang, Wenjun Ma, Susan Stack. Mayo Clinic Proceedings – August 2012 (Vol. 87, Issue 8, Pages 791-798, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2012.02.019) “The transmission of bacteria is more likely to occur from wet skin than from dry skin; therefore, the proper drying of hands after …
Librarians are educating voters on issues and referendums in Washington state
Christina Ortiz: “After watching the U.S. Presidential debates, it’s clear the country could really use a non-combative way to discuss issues and disseminate information. Sites like Procon.org do this for national issues, ranging from legalizing marijuana to illegal immigration, but sometimes the most heated political discussions happen on the local scene. Instead of relying on …
Survey – America's Ideal Employers 2012
“The results of the UNIVERSUM American Student Survey reveal how students perceive organizations as employers in the United States. The research functions as a basis for decision-making when choosing target groups, messages and channels for future employer branding campaigns, and as a control instrument for measuring the appeal an organization has over its specific target …
Editorial – Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature
Neylon C (2012) More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature. PLoS Biol 10(10): e1001417. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001417 “By any measure it has been a huge year for the open-access movement. At the beginning of the year, it looked possible that the public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) might be rolled …
Report – Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2013
“Emerging Trends in Real Estate® is an annual series of trends and forecast publications that reflect the views of leading real estate executives in three global regionsAmericas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Undertaken jointly with PWC and the Urban Land Institute, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® provides an outlook on real estate investment and development trends, …
Graduating to a Pay Gap The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation
Graduating to a Pay Gap The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation, Christianne Corbett, M.A. and Catherine Hill, Ph.D., October 2012 “Women are paid significantly less than men are in nearly every occupation. Because pay equity affects women and their families in all walks of life, it is not surprising that …
Study – Women as Academic Authors, 1665-2010
Women as Academic Authors, 1665-2010: “Womens presence in higher education has increased, but as authors of scholarly paperskeys to career successtheir publishing patterns differ from those of men. Explore nearly 1,800 fields and subfields, across four centuries, to see which areas have the most female authors and which have the fewest, in this exclusive Chronicle …
