A Librarian’s Perspective on RSS and News Aggregators
RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up? by Steven J. Bell, Director of the Library, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University.
Category «Libraries»
Digital Document Preservation: Remember Microfiche – Well Its Back!
Marketplace response to the challenges of preserving digital documents appears to be incorporating a “back to the future” perspective according to this recent article, Upgrade and Archive: The Ongoing Threat of Data Extinction. The continual push to digitize documents into virtual libraries must be balanced against the critical issues associated with the lifespan of hardware …
New on LLRX.com for August 31, 2003
Cost, Value and ROI for Knowledge Management in Law Firms Blogs for Public Lawyers Disaster Preparedness: Locking Out Former IT Personnel Choosing a Digital Camera Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) – Legal Definitions of Child P****graphy, Obs****ty and “Harmful to Minors” Notes from the Tech Trenches: Free News Alerts Privacy Under the FOIA vs. Historians/Journalists …
Library of Congress Overwhelmed By New Acquisitions
This AP article documents the critical shortage of space at the Library of Congress, which houses the largest library collection in the world. The library is in the process of building offsite storage warehouses (as many as 13) in nearby Maryland.
Public Access to Essential Gov’t Docs
From the GPO: Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format: The list comprises 48 titles, along with associated web links as available. “The dissemination of information products through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) includes a variety of formats. As directed by Congress, the primary method of making publications available to the FDLP is …
LC to Acquire Significant 9/11 Archive
The Library of Congress announced the official acquisition, on September 10, 2003, of a collection comprising over 130,000 “written accounts, e-mails, audio recordings, video clips, photographs, websites, and other materials that document the attacks on New York City, Washington D.C., and western Pennsylvania and their aftermath.” On that day, LC will also host a symposium, …
A Study on the Virtual Law Library
Feasibility and Viability of the Digital Library in a Private Law Firm – “The authors reveal the results of a research study on the feasibility and viability of the digital library. Using information derived from surveys of law librarians, legal publishers, and attorneys, they provide a snapshot of the current state of the digital library …
Memorandum on Disabling Software Filtering
Memorandum of Legal Opinion, Library Procedures for Disabling Software Filtering and Unblocking Web Sites, by Janet M. LaRue, Chief Counsel, Concerned Women for America. (via LISNews.com)
H-P Develops Prototype E-book
From BBC News: “Researchers at Hewlett Packard have developed a prototype electronic book which can hold a whole library on a device no bigger than a paperback. The brushed metal device is about one centimetre thick and looks like an oversized handheld computer. The technological tome is dominated by a screen and a series of …
Law Librarians Leverage Best of Online and Print
From the ABA Journal eReport: GOING BEYOND GOOGLE – Law Librarians Stress Legal Research by the Books. The article’s author, Hope Viner Samborn, a lawyer, is co-author of The Legal Research and Writing Handbook (Third edition, 2003).
Oxford Dictionary of English Adds 3,000 New Words
From the Oxford Dictionary of English press release, news of the addition of 3,000 new words and phrases to their database of 350,000 entries, including the following techie terms: blog, bounce (as in e-mail), CD-RW, CGI, click rate, cyberstalking, data smog, DNS, DoS, and many more. A full list of the new additions and their …
New GPO Access Training Resource
The GPO Access Training Booklet, July 2003, 73 pages in pdf, is available here. GPO Access is one of the premier e-gov resources, providing access to over 2,900 databases, including the daily editions of the Federal Register and the Congressional Record. This manual’s content, which includes a number of screen shots, covers searching strategies, resources …
