Category «Knowledge Management»

New GAO Reports – Border Security, Broadband, DOD Operational Testing, Medicaid, Retirement Security, Telecom, Private Health Insurance

Border Security: Progress and Challenges in DHS’s Efforts to Address High-Risk Travelers and Maritime Cargo, GAO-15-668T: Published: Jun 2, 2015. Publicly Released: Jun 2, 2015. Broadband: Intended Outcomes and Effectiveness of Efforts to Address Adoption Barriers Are Unclear, GAO-15-473: Published: Jun 2, 2015. Publicly Released: Jun 2, 2015. DOD Operational Testing: Oversight Has Resulted in …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

AmLaw – Special Report: Big Law Is Failing Women

“Why aren’t there more women at the top of the nation’s biggest firms? Consider that at the current growth rate of women equity partners, gender parity will be reached in the year 2181. Our investigation includes firm-by-firm data plus a look at innovative firms that are addressing problems in novel ways.”

Subjects: Economy, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

FAS – New Intelligence Budget Data Disclosed

Steven Aftergood – Secrecy News: “U.S. intelligence spending remains at the frontier of national security classification and declassification policy, as some new scraps of intelligence budget information are divulged, most other information is withheld, and a simmering demand for greater disclosure persists in Congress and elsewhere. Last month the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) released heavily …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Economy, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Evolving, Expanding Service Landscape Across Academic Libraries

Brian Mathews – Chronicle of Higher Education – The New Service Layer – “…During this same time — while reference transactions were declining — other service points migrated into our environments. Writing Centers, Communication Studios, Multimedia Studios, IT Help Desks, and Adaptive/Assistive Technologies Support Spaces are all common today. Other niche areas have emerged including …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

CISCO Visual Networking Index Forecast

“We are in an era where technological advances are happening at an exponential rate. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast, in just four years you can expect to see the number of mobile devices skyrocket, non-PC devices to reign supreme, and online video to do a complete takeover of television. Head’s up—maybe it’s time …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Wireless Web

Library of Congress Requests Comments on Pilot Demographic Group Vocabulary

“As part of its ongoing effort to provide effective access to library materials, the Library of Congress is developing a new vocabulary, entitled Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT). This vocabulary will be used to describe the creators of, and contributors to, resources, and also the intended audience of resources. It will be created …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Internet Archive – One Million Audio Cover Images for Research

Internet Archive – “Culled from various sources, this collection includes over one million JPG, PNG and GIF album covers. The resolution ranges from “thumbnail” through to very large sizes. Filenames are variant in usefulness, although a good number indicate at least the name of the original album. This dataset is for experimentation and image processing …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

ISIS vs 3D Printing

Ben Valentine – Motherboard – “Time and again, conflict has been bad news for historical artifacts and sculptures. There was the infamous burning of the Library of Alexandria, the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and the Nazi’s battle to burn as much “degenerate art” as they could find. Swept …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management

Libraries and the Internet of Things

OCLC – Libraries and the Internet of Things (IoT) – What does a world where billions of everyday objects connect to each other and share information mean for libraries? IoT presents major opportunities for libraries to connect their services to more people—and things—in more places than ever before. [Download the entire issue in PDF], Issue …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

Library Services Platforms – A Maturing Genre of Products

ALA’s Library Technology Reports May/June 2015 (Vol. 51, No.4) by Marshall Breeding “This issue of Library Technology Reports covers a variety of issues related to the genre of library services platforms. These products represent the latest wave of automation systems for libraries that depart in many ways from those of the previous era and that …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

On the Road to ‘Pre-K for All’: The Launch of UPK in New York City

Crawford, Susan P. and Lader, Mary-Catherine and Smith, Maria, On the Road to ‘Pre-K for All’: The Launch of UPK in New York City (May 24, 2015). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-9. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2610694 Executive Summary “Over the spring and summer of 2014, New York City put in place a …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

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