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“In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, librarians at ebrary and other organizations have collaborated to create a publicly available collection of breast cancer publications using DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), a do-it-yourself e-publishing feature of many ebrary products. The selection features a range of authoritative fact sheets, posters, and other materials from …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today upgraded and modernized the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country. These changes will help ensure that Americas students can learn and develop the hightech skills necessary to compete in the 21st Century economy. The National Broadband Plan laid out …
News release: “In the 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report – Turning the Page in the Digital Age – a national survey released today, children age 6 17 and their parents share their views on a wide range of topics regarding reading in the 21st Century. The study, conducted by Scholastic, the global childrens …
U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, POLL – September 28, 2010 Executive Summary: “Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. On average, Americans correctly answer …
NYT: A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the countrys fifth-largest library system. Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an intense and …
Via LLRX.com – Google Instant and Legal Search: Steve Matthews enumerates some of the issues that merit attention with respect to Google’s recent implementation of this default setting search query application.
The Great Principles of Computing: “Computing may be the fourth great domain of science along with the physical, life and social sciences.” by Peter J. Denning “Computing is integral to sciencenot just as a tool for analyzing data, but as an agent of thought and discovery. It has not always been this way. Computing is …
The Continued Rise of Blogging: “Social networks and microblogs have in recent years nudged blogging off the social media pedestal. For some consumers, who have more communication tools at their fingertips than they did a few years ago, Facebook and Twitter have supplanted blogging as life-streaming outlets. But blogs continue to be important. eMarketer estimates …
WTOP: “The Weather Channel says the Washington D.C. area experienced the worst summer weather in the United States. The damaging thunderstorms that rolled through the region in late July and early August were the main reasons why. The Weather Channel says the storm that hit the area on July 25 had winds of 90 miles …
News release: “The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Health Policy today released a report that, for the first time, calculated the startlingly high individual costs of obesity to Americans. The report, A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of Being Overweight and Obese in the United States, authored by …
The Forbes 400: America’s Richest: “The price of a ticket onto the Rich List is back at $1 billion. Who’s up? Gates and Buffett. Jay-Z is on his way.” View complete list – users may filter results by industry and by state In Pictures: Faces Of The Super Wealthy Methodology 14 Washingtonians on Forbes 400 …
Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents, by Gretchen Livingston and Kim Parker, Pew Research Center “About four-in-ten (41%) of those children who live with a grandparent (or grandparents) are also being raised primarily by that grandparent, according to the census data. This figure — 2.9 million children2 — rose …
