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Linda Zellmer, Government Information & Data Services Librarian: “This guide has been developed to give users a basic introduction to Census Data and American FactFinder 2, the U.S. Census Bureau’s data access system. American FactFinder has several different search options, a basic keyword search, a Guided Search and an Advanced Search system, as well as …
“The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how open the item is. Many offerings are available from publishers under the banner of Open Access (OA), Increased Access, Public Access, …
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) independent study of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age, January 2013 “Over the past two decades, the shift from an industrial age to an information age has affected the way both public and private sector organizations …
“Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC’s Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, presented these slides in his keynote on 23 January 2013 at the 21st annual BOBCATSSS Conference in Ankara, Turkey. Lorcan’s “The Inside Out library: Scale, Learning, Engagement” slides from this presentation are available for download from the OCLC Research website and for viewing on SlideShare.”
Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard: “Fair use and electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of filings and motions this week and more expected soon. One surprise motion came from the U.S. …
News release: “In April, 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter signed an agreement providing the Library the public tweets from the companys inception through the date of the agreement, an archive of tweets from 2006 through April, 2010. Additionally, the Library and Twitter agreed that Twitter would provide all public tweets on an ongoing …
“January 30, 2013. (Romereports.com) Texts, letters and manuscripts previously available only to experts with access to the Vatican’s Library are now just a click away. The 256 documents are the first to be made available to anyone, simply by logging on to the website of the Vatican Apostolic Library. But the project is much more …
American Libraries Direct: “The most noteworthy reference titles published in 2012 have been named to the 2013 Outstanding References Sources List, an annual handpicked list from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of ALA. Sponsored by RUSAs Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES), the Outstanding Reference Sources Committee was established in 1958 …
Phil Morehart, American Libraries: “Kennedys involvement with libraries and education runs deep. She worked to improve New York City public school libraries as vice chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools and served on the board of New Visions for Public Schools and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She delivered the …
“JSTOR, the not-for-profit digital library of thousands of academic journals and other content, announced [January 9, 2013] that the archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited reading by the public. This is part of a major expansion of JSTORs experimental program Register & Read, in which people can sign up for …
“Published on 10 December 2012, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention, by Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions. There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and …
News release: “The Library of Congress today is adding the Congressional Record, published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), and cost-estimate reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to its Congress.gov beta website, a public site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. The additions will supplement bills, bill summaries, Member profiles and legislative history information …
