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Electronic 2007 Law Librarian Survey from ALM Research – Survey Says Librarians Like Their Jobs but Are Displeased With Vendors – “Electronic research was supposed to replace books and lower costs, but it’s done neither — and librarians aren’t happy about it.” THE CHARTS The Librarian’s Expanding Role Finances Resources Staffing Electronic Research
Press release: “Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from its superb collections and make them available online…Google will digitize up to 500,000 works from Cornell University Library and make them available online using Google Book Search. As a result, materials from the librarys exceptional collections will be easily accessible to …
Hurricane Katrina – Two Years Later Special Report – Why New Orleans Still Isn’t Safe Graphic – How New Orleans has changed – Then and Now Photo Essay – Broken City Previous postings on Hurricane Katrina
“When researchers in Australia discovered that particulate matter levels were five times higher during the workday inside a nonsmoking office building than outside near a freeway, they looked for indoor culprits. After testing more than 50 printers throughout the building, they found that particle emissions varied depending on the type and age of the printer. …
“I would like to announce the launch of the Texas Digital Library’s (TDL) blog, The Scholar’s Space, featuring a team of four contributors (including me), with more to come over the next few months. The Scholar’s Space joins scholarly communications blogs sponsored by friends at other colleges and universities, and national and international organizations. We’ll …
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Public Opinion and Media Research Program – Health Challenges for the People of New Orleans: “This analysis of a household survey of Greater New Orleans area residents conducted in Fall 2006 examines the health care status of the adult population and details their health coverage and …
Press release: “Raters scored six of the Web’s most popular health information sites as excellent in ratings released today by Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Health Improvement Institute, while five scored mediocre or worse…This is the organizations’ second rating of the Web’s top information sites, published in full here.”
Documents, Leaks and the Boundaries of Expression, by Susan Nevelow Mart Librarians as Change Agents, by Mary Alice Baish Scanning and OCR with Acrobat 8, by Rick Borstein Guide to Short Form Open Access Legal Publications, by Ken Strutin Elder Resources on the Internet, by Marcus P. Zillman Gay/Lesbian Law Pathfinder, by Mark Plotkin The …
Feel Free to Move About the Airport: Turbulence Continues to Roil the Airline Industry, July 25, 2007 in Knowledge@Wharton: “Airline consumer advocates contend delays are now a routine part of air travel. For the first five months of this year, the major airlines’ on-time arrival rate was 73.5%, the lowest for that period in the …
Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise, PART II: Economic, Legal, and Organizational Issues, July 2007 “NASCIO continues its series on electronic records management and digital preservation with Part II which focuses on economic, legal, and organizational issues and recommended actions for State CIOs. Part II builds …
While attending the 100th American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting & Conference, July 14 – 17, 2007, in New Orleans, Louisiana, librarian George Butterfield stayed in a FEMA trailer with his friend, Scot, who lost everything as a result of Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. With my thanks, following are George’s comments about this …
Press release: “More than 59 million people (37.3 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites on average during the second quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 7.7 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to custom analysis provided by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America. …
