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From this posting by James Snell, a member of the IBM’s Software Standards Strategy Group: “…IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of “blogging”…So with IBMers blogging both inside and outside our Intranet environment, recognizing full well that it …
From the New York Times, this article reports that the UT Austin undergraduate library will be “empty… of books” by mid summer, having replaced them with “software suites.”
Enterprise Information Portals: The Logical Next Step? See also Making Knowledge Management Smarter
From the UK Guardian Unlimited: “Some of Britain’s leading medical research funders have banded together to finance the country’s most comprehensive online repository of medical knowledge. The multimillion-pound UK PubMed Central project is a big boost to proponents of open access to scientific research. It will enable academic researchers to post papers published either online …
From Federal Computer Week, this article reviews the challenges of digital preservation programs initiated by LC and GPO. The agencies are seeking technology solutions that harvest data on government documents to fulfill directives to digitize collections, archives and websites. Challenges to these initiatives include copyright issues, vast deep web document repositories, and the tremendous scope …
When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News From the Carnegie Reporter, Spring 2005, What’s the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas. PowerPoint slides on the survey data above
Libraries and Health Communication: Model Programs in Health Information Provided by Libraries Throughout the Nation. The NCLIS 2004 Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Awards for Libraries (57 pages, PDF) “This document records some of the programs and methodologies used by libraries that are providing accurate, useful consumer health information to the people of the …
Blogs offer economists’ thinking on daily living
Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightrope
The Wise Use of ‘Intelligence’, Leigh Jones, The National Law Journal, 04-12-2005.
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Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries (12 pages, PDF), by Geoff Harder and Randy Reichardt.
