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The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard …
UNESCO launches new Literacy Portal: “In todays world, one in five adults is still not literate (two-thirds of them women) while 72 million children are out-of-school. Since its foundation in 1946, UNESCO has been at the forefront of global literacy efforts and is dedicated to keep literacy high on national, regional and international agendas. However, …
OCLC press release and related links: “The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common groundshared interests, related skills, or a common geographic locationis as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report explores …
“A new Web page designed to keep libraries informed of weekly depository shipments has been released and is available at http://www.fdlp.gov/distribution/index.html.”
A mission to remember: Volunteers for the Library of Congress are racing against time to collect oral histories of America’s remaining World War II veterans. By Deborah Horan, Chicago Tribune staff reporter, October 14, 2007: “Since 2000, volunteers working with the library’s American Folklife Center have collected more than 50,000 taped interviews as part of …
“This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation’s library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government. The “Wise Guide” will be refreshed monthly, much like a magazine, offering links to the best of the Library’s online materials. …
Nixon’s Library Now a Part of NARA – California Facility Will Hold All Documents and Tapes From a Half-Century Career in Politics, by James Worsham, NARA, Prologue, Fall 2007, Vol. 39, No. 3. “On July 11, 2007, the National Archiveswith the approval of Congressestablished the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in the private facility …
GPO: “Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) and volunteers from the Federal depository community worked to consolidate and update the Instructions to Depository Libraries and the Federal Depository Library Manual, including its supplements, into one online publication. All the chapters were reviewed by key stakeholders, including the Depository Library Council and the professional library associations. …
European Parliament: Resolution i2010: towards a European digital library, September 27, 2007
Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Laws, by Ken Strutin The Veil Doctrine in Company Law, by Amin George Forji Congressional Budget Office Launches Topical Health Website, by George Butterfield Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated and Revised, by Sabrina I. Pacifici CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Earmark Reality, by Paul Jenks The Government …
Rising Journal Costs Limit Scholarly Access, Emory University: “Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, “a stockholder’s dream.” Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that …
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1 – A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians, by Anna Gold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D-Lib Magazine, September/October 2007, Volume 13 Number 9/10. “The following two-part article is offered to help open up the discussion with library practitioners working directly with research faculty and graduate students, advising on issues of scholarly …
