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Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience (31 pages, PDF) ABSTRACT: To deliver information about library news, services and resources to the science faculty and students at Georgia State University, several librarians developed a blog, Science News. Despite the increasing popularity of blogs (or weblogs), few libraries have taken advantage of …
Libraries: Inauguration Hours, January 20 and Other Closings
UNESCO Starts Assessing Situation of Archives and Libraries in Asia Disaster Region
New on LLRX.com for December 27, 2004: The Federal Web: Content at the Ten-year Mark – Peggy Garvin, author of The United States Government Internet Manual, takes researchers on a tour of content they can expect to find on federal, executive branch websites, and where on the site they can expect to find it. Notes …
On December 30, 2004, GPO issued an RFP to “procure Web Harvesting Services.” From the Statement of Work: “The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) requires the services of a vendor that can provide a number of different products and/or services related to the discovery, harvesting, and assessment of documents and publications from Web sites using …
This article from the New York Times discusses pioneering work by Prof. R. Manmatha and colleagues to develop a digital application to read and search collections of archival, handwritten manuscripts. This software will be of tremendous value to researchers and scholars around the world.
Law Libraries Mix Online with Hard Copy to Ease Access, Cut Costs: “”At the heart of much of the federal Judiciary’s work is legal researchthe hunt for precedent, consensus, legislative intent, and other decision-making factors. Federal court librarians can ease that often-daunting task amid today’s technology explosion.”
Digitizing books: A mountainous task for Google Major collections readied for online, one page at a time.
From the Uk Guardian, Iraq’s library struggles to rise from the ashes -Remains of national history are slowly pieced together.
On the extreme right hand side of the Library Journal homepage, there are links to The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries – Fiction and The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries – Nonfiction. The lists are compiled weekly.
From the New York Times, The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google. Related reference, A Reading Diary, by the author of the article, Alberto Manguel.
From C-SPAN, a 7 part series that commenced November 15, 2004 and continues through March 2005, that “examine(s) how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives.”
