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Best Practices for Government Libraries – 2009 – Change: Managing It, Surviving It, and Thriving On It – “The 2009 edition includes 60 articles and other submissions provided by more than 50 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and the military, as well as from professional association leaders, LexisNexis Consultants, and more.” Compiled by …
Brookings: Governance Matters 2009: Learning From Over a Decade of the Worldwide Governance Indicators, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi, June 29, 2009. “The WGI organize and synthesize data, reflecting on the reports and views of tens of thousands of stakeholders worldwide, including respondents to household and firm surveys and experts from nongovernmental organizations, …
Arctic Climate Change and Security Policy Conference: Final Report and Findings, Kenneth Yalowitz, James Collins, Ross Virginia Report, June 2009 “This final report summarizes the panel discussions from a conference on arctic climate change and security policy sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dartmouth College, and the University of the Arctic which was …
Editor & Publisher, Special Report: When There’s No Print Edition, Do Readers Flock to the Web? By Jennifer Saba “E&P decided to take a look at what happens to a newspaper’s Web traffic once the print edition is dropped on certain days or eliminated completely. Is there a spike in online readership? Is the print …
News release: “The most authoritative report providing a blueprint for how communities can tackle global warming was released by the California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The report is a guide to Californias Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act, or SB 375, the nations first legislation to link …
Marketing Yourself with Webinars – Attorney Wells H. Anderson recommends presenting periodic webinars as an effective, direct and efficient technique to attract new clients and professionals who refer business to you.
Secrecy News: “The rise of the wall between intelligence and law enforcement personnel that impeded the sharing of information within the U.S. government prior to September 11, 2001 was critically examined in a detailed monograph (pdf) that was prepared in 2004 for the 9/11 Commission. It is the only one of four staff monographs that …
The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries – Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for …
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent – By Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey – Internet & Democracy Case Study Series, June 2009. Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2009-06 “This study explores the structure and content of the Arabic blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of …
“On 16 June the Government published The Digital Britain Report, its strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy. The report provides actions and recommendations to promote and protect talent and innovation in our creative industries, to modernise TV and radio frameworks and support local news, …
Official Google Blog: “…Citizentube, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way that people are using video to change the world. If you’ve followed news and politics on YouTube, you might have noticed that we started Citizentube as a video channel on the site a few years back, but we soon realized that keeping …
New on LLRX.com: Bridging the DiGital Divide: Custom Search Engines Put You in Control – Law librarian, legal research expert and blogger John J. DiGilio’s new column focuses on technology trends that leverage the web to achieve more efficient and effective results. Here John recommends using customized search engines to manage the sites you search.
