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Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history’s reach, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6-7-06) “Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society’s history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether…compared to the sturdy format of paper and books, digital information is extremely …
WSJ free feature: Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress
AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…” …
Department of State Fact Sheet: “The Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), launched on May 3, 2006, is a digital portal that provides Iraqi universities and research institutes with access to an outstanding collection of millions of full text articles from over 17,000 premier scientific and engineering journals and their archives, in addition to technical content …
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 3244.
Press Briefing: CIA Declassifies Operational Materials As a Result of New Disclosure Policy under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group “Since 1999, the IWG has declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1.2 million pages of OSS …
American Journalism Review, June/July Preview, Remaking the Front Page: “As they struggle to stem the circulation decline, newspapers are taking new approaches to what they put on page one.” By Donna Shaw. Merrill Lynch Raises Alarm on Health of Newspaper Industry, by Jennifer Saba, Editor and Publisher: “…a new report from Merrill Lynch’s Lauren Rich …
“The Library of Congress preserves the nation’s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library’s traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites…In 2004, the Librarys Office of Strategic …
Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting …
BusinessWeek.com: Life On The Web’s Factory Floor – Who do you think turns all those words into an easy click? “Behind the seemingly magical offerings of the Internet are thousands of human beings madly inputting data around the clock…The number of third-party, offshore companies that will perform contract work has more than doubled since 2002, …
Press release, May 18, 2006: “Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) today introduced the Free Flow of Information Act (12 pages, PDF), a bill seeking to protect the public’s right to information through a free press. This legislation would provide appropriate protections …
The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, Final Report, March 17, 2006, prepared for the Library of Congress by Associate University Librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University (52 pages, PDF) A Critical Review of The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, April 3, …
