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Get Assistance from a Federal Depository Librarian: Government Information Online Pilot Project “U.S. Government agencies provide information on a wide variety of topics, from nutrition and health care to gardening and saving money on your electric bill. Other topics include laws and regulations, statistics, international affairs, public safety, and more. If a government agency does …
Released today by the GAO: Telecommunications: Greater Involvement Needed by FCC in the Management and Oversight of the E-Rate Program. GAO-05-151, February 9. Highlights. See also GAO Report: E-rate Mismanagement Continues Unabated – Barton to Accelerate Legislative Plans in Light of Findings
Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? [Library Link of the Day]
From Lynn Lenart at the University of Akron School of Law, her Law Library Pathfinder to Law Blogs – Blawgs. Thank you for including beSpacific. “The purpose of this pathfinder…is to provide a starting point for law students and law faculty interested in identifying blogs they wish to monitor or to provide basic information for …
The following article, in PDF, begins on page 1 and continues on page 13: Information Free-for-all? by Trudy Bell, from IEEE’s The Institute Quarterly, March 2005. [Peggy Garvin] Related beSpacific postings on open source journals and public access to scientific sources. See also, Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled?
From Wired, The Book Stops Here – “Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia.”
Press release: Free Online Collection of 275,000 Images from World-Renowned New York Public Library Launches March 3 “A large, rich treasury of images (including Civil War photographs, illuminated manuscripts, Japanese prints, New York City views, and early American maps) from the collections of The New York Public Library will be accessible free of charge over …
SB 682, introduced 2/22/2005 by Senator Simitian: The act would prohibit identity documents (including library cards) created, mandated, or issued by various public entities from containing a contactless integrated circuit or other device that can broadcast personal information or enable personal information to be scanned remotely. Related references: Smartcard Industry Report Compares Technology With RFID …
From Wired, a critique of the Wall Street Journals’ adherence to a fee based subscription strategy that prevents search engine indexing of their extensive, authoritative, and highly regarded content. This in turn results in very limited linking to their articles by a ever expanding community of bloggers and website publishers. The debate should and will …
How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time.
Clinton Library Opens Presidential Papers for Research: “The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum…announced that it is making over 100,000 pages of Clinton presidential records available for research. They represent the first public release of Clinton presidential records since the end of the Clinton Administration.” From the George Bush Presidential Library: Information on release …
“On February 23, 2005, Christie’s in New York will sell Jeremy’s Origins of Cyberspace Library. This library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications documents the scientific and technological foundations of the Internet. What makes the Origins of Cyberspace so special is that it goes to the very beginning of the developments that led …
