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“In an effort to map and chronicle the full range of cuts, closings, and diminished library services nationally, Library Journal, in partnership with Mandy Knapp and Laura Solomon (responsible for SaveOhioLibraries.com), has launched LosingLibraries.org. The dynamic website, which relies on reader contributions, has begun to track – via links to articles, announcements, and press releases …
Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution: “Expanded wireless broadband access will trigger the creation of innovative new businesses, provide cost-effective connections in rural areas, increase productivity, improve public safety, and allow for the development of mobile telemedicine, telework, distance learning, and other new applications that will transform Americans’ lives. Spectrum and the new technologies it enables …
“For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians. These reports and the …
Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (June 2010) “For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate …
Employment Online Resources – This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet.
Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues – How many times have you wondered how to do a task or work with software? You feel wonderful once you have found a colleague who could share their “know-how” about how to complete that task more efficiently or how to implement an applications that does not …
Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010: “One-in-four U.S. households now have no landline telephone, considerably more than in the early 1960s when telephone surveys were considered infeasible because so many households were unreachable by telephone. Unlike the 1960s, however, most of those without a landline today do have telephone service, in …
UK Central Office of Information released audit results on June 24, 2010: “The Central Office of Information (COI) has delivered the standards and guidance requested and the report should be read in conjunction with them: Measuring website costs Measuring website usage Measuring website quality Delivering inclusive websites The 2009/10 report covers websites run by ministerial …
Sperm Whale Toxicology Research overview via Ocean Alliance. Heavy metals from pollution threaten sperm whales with extinction: “US scientists who spent five years sampling the tissue of nearly 1000 sperm whales discovered surprisingly high levels of toxic heavy metals in the animals, a report shows. The levels of cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and …
Childlessness Up Among All Women; Down Among Women with Advanced Degrees, by Gretchen Livingston and DVera Cohn, Pew Research Center, June 25, 2010 “Nearly one-in-five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one-in-ten in the 1970s. While childlessness has risen for all racial and ethnic groups, and most education …
World Wealth Report 2010 “The worlds population of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) grew 17.1% to 10.0 million in 2009, returning to levels last seen in 2007 despite the contraction in world gross domestic product (GDP). Global HNWI wealth similarly recovered, rising 18.9% to US$39.0 trillion, with HNWI wealth in Asia-Pacific and Latin America actually …
Human Rights Campaign Foundation: “The Healthcare Equality Index 2010 is an annual survey of healthcare policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients and their families. This report details the results of the 2010 survey, outlining the responses from 178 healthcare facilities from 21 states and the District of Columbia. Thirteen healthcare …
