Category «Libraries»

List of Federal Agency Internet Sites Partnership Renewed

“GPO is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Troy H. Middleton Library of Louisiana State University through 2010. Originally signed in 2001, this partnership provides for Federal depository library access to the List of Federal Agency Internet Sites Web site. Based on the U.S. Government Manual, the List directs users to …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Fair Use Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDP

“Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an unprecedented economic study released today. According to the study commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and conducted in accordance with a World Intellectual Property Organization …

Subjects: Congress, Copyright, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

Public libraries are sole source of online employment and education information for millions of Americans

ALA: “Ever-growing patron demand for computer and Internet services in U.S. public libraries has stretched existing Internet bandwidth, computer availability, and building infrastructure to capacity, according to a new study “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007,” conducted by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Information Use Management and Policy …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Reading Books in the Digital Age Subsequent to Amazon, Google and the Long Tail

Reading Books in the Digital Age subsequent to Amazon, Google and the long tail by Terje Hillesund, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. First Monday, volume 12, number 9 (September 2007), “In the last decades, the book industry has changed and is now characterised by two (or three) opposite tendencies: Many publishing firms …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Libraries, Search Engines

Google Adds New Features to Book Search, Advanced Search and Google Reader

Google Launches New Features to Collect, Share, and Discover New Books – ComputerWorld: “Users may now…”create and search their own library built on Google Book Search, so they can organize, annotate and do a full text search through the books they have chosen…share their expertise by allowing them to annotate their libraries with labels, write …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management, Libraries, RSS, Search Engines

Nixon Tapes and Transcripts Now Available Online

“Between 1971 and 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of his phone calls and meetings. These recordings were made in the Oval Office (commonly designated by the abbreviation “OVAL”), his hideaway office in the Executive Office Building (“EOB”), the Cabinet Room (“CAB”), Camp David (“CDHW”), and on various White House telephones (“WHT”). Currently, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX.com for August 2007

Legal Information Management in a Global and Digital Age: Revolution and Tradition, by Claire M. Germain IM a Librarian: Establishing a Virtual Reference Service with Little Cost or Technical Skill, by Bonnie Shucha Search at the Foundation of the Enterprise, by John I. Alber Technology and the Generation Gap, by Genevieve Zook E-Discovery Update: Understanding …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries, Marketing

FLARE: Foreign Law Research

Foreign Law Research: “FLARE is a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Bodleian Law Library, Squire Law Library, British Library, and School of Oriental and African Studies. It is working to improve the coverage and accessibility of foreign legal materials at the national level and …

Subjects: Legal Research, Libraries

Current Awareness Search Engine Indexes 1,400 RSS Feeds on Library Related Topics

“LibWorm Beta is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output …

Subjects: Blogs, Libraries, RSS, Search Engines

Lawyers Without Borders Seeks Book Donations

“Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), an organization that coordinates volunteer lawyers with nonprofit groups, rule of law initiatives, and other human rights work, is seeking donations of law books for courts and lawyers in Albania and Liberia. The law library of the Supreme Court of Albania in the capital of Tirana, which is accessed by judges, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

NASA and Internet Archive Team to Digitize Space Imagery

Press release: “NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines