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Executive Order: Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation, August 17, 2007: “…Federal agencies shall, consistent with agency missions: (c) Manage wildlife and wildlife habitats on public lands in a manner that expands and enhances hunting opportunities, including through the use of hunting in wildlife management planning…(e)…foster healthy and productive populations of game species and …
Press release: “Since its launch earlier this year, the WorldCat Registry continues to help libraries manage and share essential data that define their organizations, such as institution type, location, URLs for electronic services, circulation statistics and population served. National libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa recently agreed to load their files into the …
“Metavid, hosted by The University of California at Santa Cruz, is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.” …
Press release: “The rich really are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, a new University of Michigan study shows. The studythe most recent available analysis of long-term wealth trends among U.S. households is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) since …
Materials from PLL Programs at AALL 2007 – The Challenge of Electronic Discovery: How Reference Service, Records Management and Litigation Support Interact, Speakers: John Montaña, Esq., PelliGroup, Inc. and Rachelle L. DeGregory, Esq., LexisNexis [PowerPoint document]
Wiki becomes textbook in Boston College classroom – “IT prof says Web 2.0 technology boosts collaboration among students.”
“About the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center – The relationship between Google and AdWords advertisers is built on trust. Advertisers rely on the relevance of our ad placement, our reporting statistics, and the quality of the clicks their ads receive. We take this trust seriously, and we know that AdWords couldn’t exist without it.”
“At Sony, we support the recycling of our products with the same respect we have when creating them. Teaming up with Waste Management, weve built a recycling program that makes it easy to dispose of electronics in an environmentally-safe way. Bring your unwanted Sony product to any participating Waste Management eCycling drop-off center and recycle …
New York Times, Latest Genealogy Tools Create a Need to Know: “As Web sites and genealogical societies proliferate and DNA testing becomes more widely available, the tools for tracing a family tree are becoming more accessible and the hunt is often intriguing. A bit of online detective work can yield a significant amount of …
Public Notice: Auction of 700 MHz Band Licenses Scheduled for January 16, 2008; Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auction 73.
“The National Snow and Ice Data Center has launched this year’s news and commentary Web site [Arctic Sea Ice News] as we follow the Arctic sea ice melt season. From August 10, 2007, through the end of the summer melt season, we will post updates as events warrant.” “Arctic sea ice has now surpassed all …
HHS OIG Announces Recent Criminal Enforcement Actions