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Press release: “By conservative estimates, one European in ten has a disability, which means that at least 80 million people from the 46 Council of Europe member countries live with some form of disability, whether physical, intellectual or psychological. Ahead of the International Day of Disabled Persons on 3 December, the Council of Europe has …
The nonprofit Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) literacy exam “measures students’ abilities to research, organize, and communicate information using technology….Feedback from librarians and faculty members has shown that while most college-age students can use technology, they don’t necessarily know what to do with the content the technology provides….To achieve information …
Press Release on Innovation Task Force Benchmarks Report, November 16, 2006 Measuring the Moment: Innovation, National Security and Economic Competitiveness
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has been tracking a representative sample of the American population for over six years watching as people move on-line and then move from modems to broadband.” Highlights of the 2007 Digital Future Report “This year’s report contains a large module looking at on-line communities …
With a wide range of content formats, from podcasts to RSS and searchable databases, the OYEZ blog is a unique and content richs online resource to locate cases, information on the justices, Listen to or download the official version of recent oral arguments, and read court related news.
“World AIDS Day is a day when people from around the world come together within a single effort. The global theme for the World AIDS Day 2006 is accountability – and the slogan is “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” Via UN Pulse, “The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has compiled a list of related resources and weblinks.” …
“The Federal Technology Source includes contact information for more than 3,000 of the most influential people in the federal information technology arena, including chief information officers, knowledge managers, and security and privacy officers. The directory also includes information on key political officials and their IT staffs, as well as trade associations, research firms and vendors. …
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS and eC3 Joint Report on Digital Archiving) and National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3) Statement on Joint Report that Provides Recommendations for Improving Digital Archiving. Digital Archiving: From Fragmentation to Collaboration
The Third Branch: “On December 1, 2006, amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16, 26, 33, 34, 45 and revisions to Form 35 will take effect unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify or defer them. These amendments and revisions are all aimed at one particular area of discoveryelectronically stored information, meaning all information …
From Marcus P. Zillman, his Awareness Watch Report this month features Healthcare Resources, which list many useful free and fee based topical resources available to researchers on the Web.
Election Night 2006 An Evening in the Life of the American Media, November 27, 2006 – by the Project for Excellence in Journalism: “For the blogosphere, a fairly smooth election night made things something of a disappointment. For top newspaper Web sites, finding the balance between speed and offering a rich narrative still has to …
The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, “psiphon is…a human rights software project…that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind …
