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24% Growth from 2009 to 2010 – Hispanic College Enrollment Spikes, Narrowing Gaps with Other Groups, by Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center “Driven by a single-year surge of 24% in Hispanic enrollment, the number of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high of 12.2 million in …
“August 25, 2011 – Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to its privacy controls. We reviewed the changes in detail on Tuesday; now heres how you can take advantage of these changes. “Turn On Profile Review – One of the biggest changes to Facebooks privacy controls is the option to review any content …
“The events of September 11th, 2001 affected the entire world. The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and …
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of rare is changing in the age of information abundance by Maria Popova. “Over the past few years, the fledgling field of the digital humanities has made significant strides with a number of ambitious digitization projects bringing online rare cultural artifacts manuscripts, canvases, celluloid, marginalia that used …
International Bloggers and Internet Control, Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, Jillian York, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey. Berkman Center for Internet & Society, August 2011 “The Internet is an increasingly contested space, particularly in countries with repressive governments. Infringements on Internet freedom, particularly through Internet filtering and surveillance, have inspired activists and technologists to develop technological …
News release: “The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver today launches a unique, national initiative to change the way law schools educate students. Educating Tomorrows Lawyers provides a platform to encourage law schools in the U.S. to showcase innovative teaching to produce more practice-ready lawyers who …
News release: “As students across the country prepare to start their freshman year of college, more than 40 percent of them will not graduate within six years costing billions of dollars in lost earnings for the students and millions of dollars in lost tax revenue, according to a new analysis by the American Institutes …
“Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have for the first time fully mapped the movement of Antarcticas vast ice sheets and glaciers, which comprise 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Using data gathered by satellites from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan, the researchers have assembled a color animation depicting how the glaciers …
Update, November 30, 2011: Seeking Synchronicity Webinar Recording Now Available OCLC – “A new membership report from OCLC Research, in partnership with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Seeking Synchronicity distills more than five years of virtual reference (VR) research into a readable summary that features memorable quotes that vividly illustrate very specific and …
Pronunciation Book – spoken pronunciation of words, via YouTube (worth visiting)
The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers, by Jack Shafer “My anecdotal findings about print’s superiority were seconded earlier this month by an academic study presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The paper, Medium Matters: Newsreaders’ Recall and Engagement With Online and Print …
A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators, Linda McCarthy, Keith Watson, and Denise Weldon-Siviy, August 2011. “This online guide explains how you can: Protect your Facebook account Avoid the scammers Use advanced security settings Recover a hacked Facebook account Stop imposters
