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New York Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?: “Few who believe in the potential of the Web deny the value of books. But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice for fun. And those who prefer staring at a television …
News release, July 11, 2008 [thanks to Jennifer Eckel]: “American Federation of Government Employees National Council of EPA Local #238 President Charles Orzehoskie today announced that AFGE Council 238 has reached agreement with EPA to reopen its libraries… Orzehoskie went on to note that this agreement must still go through. “Agency Head Review” pursuant to …
“This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. This “is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from …
Microsoft Live Search Blog: “Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that we …
International Review of the Red Cross (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970): “The International Review of the Red Cross has been continuously published by the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1869, and jointly with Cambridge University Press since 2006. It was first published as Bulletin international Sociétés de secours aux militaries blesses and later …
“The Chesapeake Project began as a two-year (2007-2008) pilot digital preservation program established to preserve and ensure permanent access to vital legal information currently available in digital formats on the World Wide Web. The purpose of The Chesapeake Project is to successfully develop and implement a program to stabilize, preserve, and ensure permanent access to …
Real Job Titles for Library and Information Science Professionals – directory of “job titles…found in job listings in American Libraries, College and Research Libraries News, or have been sent to Michelle Mach by employed “librarians.” [via Phil Bradley]
Library of Congress Federal Research Division: “The profiles offer brief, summarized information on a countrys historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.” Country Profile: Iran, May 2008
A Little Grafting of Second Life into a Legal Research Class: Rob Hudson discusses how Second Life can be used to enhance legal research instruction. Experiments in full class lectures and other uses of Second Life in higher education offer a mixture of hype and excitement. Published May 9, 2008 CongressLine: Running for Congress: Paul …
“On May 7, Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) gave testimony [Statement on behalf of GPO funding] before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, in support of the fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget request of the U.S. Government Printing Office. She testified on behalf of AALL, the American …
News release: “The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI withdrew the NSL and agreed to the unsealing of the case, finally …
The Orphan Works Act of 2008 (HR 5889 and S 2913) “attempts to create a system where new creators can use old works without fear of massive lawsuits, provided that a good faith effort has been made to find out if the work in question is copyrighted.” [Link] Public Knowledge resource guide to Orphan Works …
