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Press release: “New York State schools with certified librarians have higher scores on average on the fourth grade English Language Arts (ELA) test than those who dont, according to the findings of researchers at Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool). Preliminary findings of research conducted by Professor Ruth Small and graduate students in the …
“First Book is a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. We provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs. First Book was founded in 1992. The First Book model …
“Through Government Information Online (GIO) you can ask government information librarians who are experts at finding information from government agencies of all levels (local, state, regional, national international) on almost any subject from aardvarks to zygomycosis. GIO is a free online information service supported by nearly twenty public, state and academic libraries throughout the United …
Google Book Search: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, 1/1/2008, By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology. “Forget everything you believe about Google’s book digitization project. Once you get past the freakishly high numbers bandied about, the two-dozen-plus distinguished institutions that have signed on, the legal paranoia and the ultra-ultra-secret processes and technologies involved-you’ll find that …
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called for the papers of the Founding Fathers Project [Pew Charitable Trusts: “The Project was established more than a half century ago to publish the complete, annotated writings of the countrys founding fathersincluding George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin …
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper by Oya Y. Rieger, February, 2008. 52 pp. Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Executive Summary: “The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and …
Press release: “The President’s budget request for fiscal year 2009 seeks $271,246,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The request, which was released by the White House today, represents an increase of $26,023,000 or 10.6 percent, over the FY 2008 enacted level for the Institutes programs and administration.” IMLS Appropriations History 1998-2009 …
“The University of Michigan’s University Library has just put the millionth book from its collection on-line. That’s one million out of the 7.5 million volumes in the library’s current holdings. Digitized materials are made available publicly via the Mirlyn library catalog and MBooks. MBooks provides full text of works that are in the public domain, …
Reviewing the XO $100 Laptop, by Conrad J. Jacoby Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending, by Debbie Ginsberg and Meg Kribble FOIA Facts: The Impact of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, by Scott A. Hodes Criminal Resources: Criminal Defense Investigation, by Ken …
Press release: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced that three universities – [text of the guidelines linked as follows] Hofstra, Syracuse and Marquette have reached agreement with the AAP on new copyright guidelines affirming that educational content delivered to students in digital formats should be treated under the same copyright principles that …
Do you need to read books to be clever? By Denise Winterman, BBC News Magazine: “…books are hyped as life changing and a way out of crime, poverty and deprivation by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who launched the National Year of Reading on Wednesday. Quite simply, they have the potential to open up new worlds …
Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008. “The future of bibliographic control will be collaborative, decentralized, international in scope, and Web-based. Its realization will occur in cooperation with the private sector, and with the active collaboration of library users. Data will be gathered from multiple …
