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“Gannett News Service compiled 2002 data from the National Center for Education Statistics on more than 9,000 public library systems nationwide. To make a five-year comparison, GNS also obtained 2006 data from each state and the District of Columbia that were not available from NCES. The federal government requires states to report library information in …
News release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, which provides an overview of ARL libraries implementation of software that people use to connect with one another online…In the last few years, the use of social software has grown enormously. While a growing number of libraries have …
Technology Tools for Information Management – Roger V. Skalbeck and Barbara Fullerton’s share a fast paced presentation of 19 practical, low cost and innovative tech tools they respectively use on a regular basis. So if you are looking for ideas to improve your use of Outlook, RSS, Adobe, and enhance your presentations and collaborative goals, …
Library of Congress Federal Research Division, Country Profiles: Turkey and Yemen.
Project will preserve Bush administration Web sites, By Jill R. Aitoro: “More than 100 million Web pages from President Bush’s second term will be preserved for historians, researchers and the public, thanks to a joint effort announced on Thursday of government agencies and non-profit libraries. The Library of Congress and Government Printing Office, in partnership …
Council on Library and Information Resources, pub 142 – No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century, August, 2008 (74 pages, PDF) “In February 2008, CLIR convened 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to consider this question. Participants discussed the challenges and opportunities that libraries are likely to face …
Follow up to previous postings on the EPA library closures, today this news release from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): “The Memorandum of Agreement between the EPA and the American Federation of Government Employees becomes final today….EPA will not, however, re-open its specialized library for research on the properties and effects of new …
Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs, by Kat Hagedorn Metadata Harvesting Librarian, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI and Joshua Santelli Applications Programmer, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2008, Volume 14 Number 7/8.
Treasury Economic Update 8.1.08: “Job Growth: Payroll employment fell by 51,000 in July, following a decrease of 51,000 in June. The United States has added about 7.8 million jobs since August 2003. Employment increased in 33 states and the District of Columbia over the year ending in June. (Last updated: August 1, 2008). Unemployment: The …
News release: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking suggestions from the public on how it can increase its level of openness related to security at nuclear power plants and certain other facilities while still protecting sensitive information. A summary of the feedback will be posted on the NRCs Web site, provided to the Commission and …
“Taking Care of Business – Librarians have become tougher advocates, savvier negotiators, and key contributors to their firm’s growth.” Competitive Advantage: Business Intelligence – finding, analyzing and leveraging it-reshapes the role of law librarians, by Alan Cohen, July/August 2008.
Reference from Coast to Coast: Summer Musings – Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen provide a timely and valuable refresher on a range of well-sourced, reliable, topical websites, guides, print and program materials useful for summer associate legal research training.
