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Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake, embeddable application: What is your situation? / I’m looking for someone / I have information about someone. See also: Open Street Map Project’s Haiti Earthquake Map Free access to Haiti Earthquake imagery through DigitalGlobe’s Crisis Event Service Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal [all via Brady Forrest] and Haiti Earthquake Recovery …
A Perfect Storm Brewing: Budget Cuts Threaten Library Services at Time of Increased Demand, January 2010. “Todays public libraries are vital community technology hubs that millions of Americans rely on for their first and often only choice for Internet access. Despite increased demand for library computers, however, libraries typically have not seen a corresponding increase …
A Year After Obamas Election Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects, January 12, 2010 “Despite the bad economy, blacks assessments about the state of black progress in America have improved more dramatically during the past two years than at any time in the past quarter century, according to a comprehensive new nationwide Pew Research Center …
“According to a new report prepared by the American Library Association (ALA), libraries of all types are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn while managing sky-high use. Compiled from a broad range of available sources, The Condition of Libraries: 1999-2009 presents U.S. economic trends (2009), and summarizes trends in public, school and academic libraries …
Project for Excellence in Journalism – How News Happens: A Study of the News Ecosystem of One American City, January 11, 2010. “The study, which examined all the outlets that produced local news in Baltimore, Md., for one week, surveyed their output and then did a closer examination of six major narratives during the week, …
New Deal Denialism, Eric Rauchway, Dissent Winter 2010 “From the start of the current economic crisis, commentators have compared the ongoing unpleasantness to the crash of 1929, with the implication that we might soon begin to suffer a version of the Great Depression if we did not avoid the errors of our predecessors. Right-wing and …
“CareerCast.com’s 2010 Jobs Rated report offers a comprehensive analysis of 200 different jobs from Accountant to Zoologist giving each a unique ranking based on factual analysis and hard data, not guesswork. If you’re entering (or re-entering) the job market and want to avoid selecting the wrong career, our rankings can help you make …
The New York Review of Books – Who’s in Big Brother’s Database? By James Bamford – The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the, National Security Agency, by Matthew M. Aid, Bloomsbury. “…this library expects few visitors. It’s being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency which is primarily responsible for “signals intelligence,” the …
New York Times: “On Jan. 7, 2010, President Obama addressed the findings of a review into the intelligence and screening failures prior to a Nigerian mans attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day. The White House released a declassified account of the review, as well as a list of actions the president ordered …
News release: “Shareholders of Nike, Gatorade and other Tiger Woods sponsors lost a collective $5 to $12 billion in the wake of the scandal involving his extramarital affairs, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis.” Shareholder Value Destruction following the Tiger Woods Scandal, Christopher R. Knittel and Victor Stango, …
Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures. Mellons decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a …
2009 Annual Survey Results – Student Engagement in Law School: Enhancing Student Learning “The 2009 findings continue to track the rising debt load for law students. Although the sample of participating schools has changed over the years, the high cost of going to law school remains a constant in each years report. This year, the …
