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The Top 25 US Public Libraries’ Collective Collection, as Represented in WorldCat “characterizes the combined collections of the top 25 US public libraries, as represented in the WorldCat database. These libraries account for more than 34 million holdings in WorldCat across 13.5 million distinct publications. The report considers overlap vs. uniqueness of holdings for these …
News release: “Demonstrating the increasing role of the network in people’s lives, an international workforce study announced today by Cisco revealed that one in three college students and young professionals considers the Internet to be as important as fundamental human resources like air, water, food and shelter. The 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report also …
How Much Time College Students Spend Studying Varies By Major and Corresponds to Faculty Expectations, Survey Finds: “Findings released today show that on average, full-time college students study 15 hours a week. However, study time differed by academic majors, with seniors in engineering averaging about 19 hours per week, while their peers in the social …
Strength through Global Leadership and Engagement: U.S. Higher Education in the 21st Century November 2011 “U.S. institutions have set the benchmark for excellence. American universities populate the top of various ratings of higher education no matter what methodology is used. As just one example, American institutions represented 53 of the top 100 universities in the …
“This webinar featured innovative ways to increase access to special collectons. The report, Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections, focused on the actual moment of digitization of non-book materials and on innovative ways to speed things up. But speeding things up in one part of the process often uncovers bottlenecks in other …
How Mainstream Media Outlets Use Twitter Content Analysis Shows an Evolving Relationship – November 14, 2011 “For nearly every news organization, Twitter has become a regular part of the daily news outreach. But there are questions about how those organizations actually use the technology: How often do they tweet? What kind of news do they …
What are the world’s biggest sources of renewable energy and where are they located?: “Efforts to tackle climate change include heavy investment in renewable sources of electricity around the world. Solar power saw the biggest leap in 2010, with the installed base jumping 70% compared with 2009 to 40 gigawatts. Wind power also grew strongly, …
Jennifer Howard, Wired Campus: “Impact, not ideology, was the watchword at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference, held…at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute {Betheda, MD, November 9-10, 2011] The 260 high-level researchers, fund providers, and open-access advocates who attended didnt waste time bashing publishers who keep research behind paywalls. (Some commercial publishers, including Elsevier, attended.) …
Teach.gov: “Teaching is a rewarding and challenging profession where you can make a lasting impact. You can have a positive influence on students, schools, and communities now and into the future. Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially …
“Northwest Government Information Network Handouts: Fall 2011, updated November 3, 2011. Fall 2011 featured Linda Clark, Seattle Regional Office, U.S. Census Bureau as our main speaker. She came to provide us with some training on how to use the newly revamped American Factfinder 2. Below are the handouts she used for her presentation. 2010 Census …
An Analysis of Faculty Instructional and Grant-based Productivity at The University of Texas at Austin – Marc A. Musick, Associate Dean for Student Affairs,, College of Liberal Arts, Professor of Sociology, November 2011: “As a university of the first class, UT Austin boasts rankings that put it among the best public research universities in the …
What’s the Fallout for Dogs Near Fukushima? by Jenny Marder “The dogs and cats spotted in Katsurao were were among thousands of pets abandoned after residents were forced to quickly evacuate areas around the Fukushima plant, after the tsunami damaged the facility, causing equipment failures and a release of radioactive materials…Upon visiting the area after …
