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“The U.S. Government Printing Office published its last official history 50 years ago, marking its centennial anniversary. 100 GPO Years 18611961 has proven to be a remarkably valuable resource and deserves to stand alone as an enduring contribution to the historical record of this great agency. Instead of trying to improve on it, with the …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys National Library Network has been named Federal Library/Information Center of the Year by the Library of Congress. The award recognizes outstanding, innovative, and sustained achievements during fiscal year 2010 by a federal library or information center. EPAs library network is an essential information partner with EPA staff and …
Building a Collaborative Digital Collection, a Necessary Evolution in Libraries, Michelle M. Wu, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-47, Law Library Journal, Forthcoming “Law libraries are losing ground in the effort to preserve information in the digital age. In part, this is due declining budgets, user needs, and a caution …
News release: “Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in this fashion, …
Australia Trove: “Find and get over 238,389,330 (and counting) Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.”
A History of the Library as Seen Through Notable Researchers by Thomas G. Lannon, Assistant Curator, Manuscripts & Archives Division, May 2, 2011 “The New York Public Librarys Beaux-Arts Stephen A. Schwarzman Building celebrates its 100th anniversary this month on May 23. The Centennial offers a wonderful opportunity to reflect on Library use from the …
U.S. Public Libraries and the Use of Web Technologies, 2010 – April 2011, Zeth Lietzau, Jamie Helgren. This study was funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) by the Colorado State Library, Colorado Department of Education. “It’s well known that technology is changing at an increasingly rapid pace and that many public libraries …
Walker budget cuts target Wisconsin libraries Materials sharing, Braille service are threatened: “Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, Wisconsin libraries would see their funding requests cut by more than $18.9 million in 2012 alone, threatening a wide variety of services, including those for job-seekers and the blind…Cuts to Wisconsin library budgets come in three areas. …
News release: “Amazon announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later this year that will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States. Kindle Library Lending will be available for all generations of Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps. Customers will be able to check out …
5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’, by Robert Darnton, professor and university librarian at Harvard University. This essay is based on a talk he gave last month at the Council of Independent Colleges’ Symposium on the Future of the Humanities, in Washington – snipped: “Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led …
Famous poet’s writings as a Federal employee shed new light on his life and work: “The National Archives today announced the identification of nearly 3,000 Walt Whitman documents written during his service as a Federal government employee. This trove of information–conclusively identified as Whitman’s papers for the first time by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scholar …
Kerith Page McFadden, librarian at CNN for the past 12 years wrote today: “Librarians, information specialists, knowledge managers or whatever title a librarian might have — their skills are in high demand. And, though you might not know it, they are everywhere…At a time where anyone can Google just about anything, librarians don’t just find …
