Category «Knowledge Management»

New on LLRX – Underfunded Omaha libraries. National digital library endowment, anyone?

Via LLRX.com – In Warren Buffett’s own backyard: Underfunded Omaha libraries. National digital library endowment, anyone? – David Rothman calls out an increasingly pervasive dichotomy of action by some of America’s wealthiest corporate philanthropists in regard to supporting libraries, literacy and equal access to comprehensive public library collections. As Rothman documents, Omaha Public Libraries’ spending …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

New Yorker – How Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter

Jamie Holmes: “..[The] Journal of Visualized Experiments…[f]ounded in 2006, JOVE now has a database of more than four thousand videos, with about eighty more added each month. They are usually between ten and fifteen minutes long, and they range in subject from biology and chemistry to neuroscience and medicine. “For a scientist trying to explain …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition

“The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition examines key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in technology for their impact on academic and research libraries worldwide. This publication was produced by the NMC in collaboration with University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich. To create the report, an international body of experts …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Injunction against metadata collection reversed by U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit

EFF – “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion [August 28, 2015] in Klayman v. Obama is highly disappointing and, worse, based on a mistaken concern about the underlying facts. The court said that since the plaintiffs’ phone service was provided by one subsidiary of Verizon—Verizon Wireless—rather than another—Verizon Business—they couldn’t prove that they …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Fair Use Under Copyright Law: Fair Use Books, Websites and Database Search Results

Via Reference Librarian David Dillard, Temple University: “I have a new Fair Use under Copyright Law Research guide that provides books with links to related content, websites, database search results for this topic as well as database search results for guides in fair use and a list of databases with fair use content and the …

Subjects: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

UK Medical Heritage Digital Library has more than 26,000 titles

News release: “Pathology, surgery, therapeutics, anatomy, public health – these are some of the top subjects that are covered by the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) digitisation project. In July the UK-MHL project reached the halfway point, with over 26,000 titles digitised, resulting in nearly 8 million images. Our goal is to reach 15 million …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Medicine

Census Data Used For Comprehensive Visualization of Segregation in American Cities

Wired – “This is the most comprehensive map of race in America ever created [by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service]. White people are shown with blue dots; African-Americans with green; Asians with red; and Latinos with orange, with all other race categories from the Census represented by brown. …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

World Bank Opens Online Archives Holdings

Elisa Liberatori Prati – World Bank – “In April 2015, as part of its commitment to transparency and openness, the World Bank Group launched its Archives Holdings website. This is a state-of-the-art platform, which maximizes the public’s online access to a vast amount of original primary source material in the custody of the Archives. Created …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Medicine, Poverty, Search Engines

Washington Post launched redesigned homepage

“The Washington Post begins rolling out an all-new homepage [August 26, 2015] that offers readers a cleaner, more dynamic reading experience, a bolder visual display and improved performance. The new homepage marks a key milestone in the site-wide reboot led by The Post’s engineering and news teams, one that has been driven by the in-house …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

World Map of Registered Little Free Libraries

Little Free Libraries are proliferating around the world – Take a Book – Leave a Book. Here in America these libraries can found in gardens, on homeowners front lawns, in coffee shops, on outdoor trails – they are sponsored by individuals and groups whose goal is to promote literacy, to provide free reading material to …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Health Care and Cyber Security: Increasing Threats Require Increased Capabilities

KPMG – “Four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyber-attacks. At the core of the increased risk to healthcare organizations is the richness and uniqueness of the information that the health plans, doctors, hospitals and other providers handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Privacy

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