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Presidential Libraries: Search for Obama Library Director to Begin Soon, Three Archivists Already Hired
From The Chicago Tribune: After selecting architects and a site for the Obama Presidential Center, President Barack Obama faces another key decision: choosing a director for his library and museum. The job hasn’t been advertised yet, but if recent practices hold a director could be in on the job by early next year. [Clip] The […]
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New Report from Ithaka S+R: “Taking Steps Toward ‘Interactive Learning Online'”
May 2, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From the Ithaka S+R News Release: Extraordinary pressure is mounting on colleges and universities—especially public universities—to address the ever-increasing growth in the costs of higher education and to improve student learning outcomes. Online learning holds great promise to address these issues, but requires these institutions to operate in substantially different ways. “Barriers to Adoption of […]
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Oregon St. University: Rare, Once-Lost Pioneer Chinese Immigrant Docs Go Online
April 28, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From Oregon Public Radio: Rare, once-lost historic records about pioneer Chinese immigrants to the Northwest have found a new life online. The digital archive is hosted by Oregon State University. A Chinese-American civic group hopes the document trove can help families locate ancestors gone missing early in the last century. This document collection includes names, […]
Canadian Government Cuts Funding for Public Internet Access
April 8, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From Global News: Ottawa is pulling the plug on its support for a program that helps connect Canadians to affordable Internet access at schools, community centres and libraries. Industry Canada sent out letters on Thursday notifying program coordinators it would not renew funding for the Community Access Program or CAP, a service accessed disproportionately by lower-income […]
Rankings: Take at Look at the Independent Publishers Group “Top 100 E-Books” List
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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We learned about this list by ways of a mention on the IPG News web page. Direct to List See Also: Amazon Removes Kindle Versions of IPG Books After Distributor Declines to Change Selling Terms From Publishers Lunch (February, 2012) [IPG President Mark] Suchomel writes: “Amazon.com is putting pressure on publishers and distributors to change […]
Open Access To Scientific information: Policy Guidelines Released by UNESCO
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From the UNESCO Web Site: Addressing a major concern of Member States, UNESCO has released a new publication entitled Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access to demystify the concept of Open Access and provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. [Clip] Besides strengthening capacities to adopt Open Access (OA) […]
Wikipedia’s Official Mobile Apps Say So Long to Google Maps
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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By Charles Cooper: First it was Foursquare. And then Apple. Now, it’s Wikipedia’s turn to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia’s decision, announced in a blog post, is likely to raise more questions about the company’s decision to charge so-called high-volume users of its Maps APIs, which formerly were free. In March, Google started […]
Posted in: Apps, Mobile Access
New from NCSL: Pension Legislation Database
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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New from the National Council of State Legislatures and the Pew Center on States: From the Database Intro: Current legislation on pensions and retirement is available in a searchable database. You can search 2012 pensions and retirement bills by topic, primary author, state, bill number, status or keyword. The database is updated every two weeks. […]
Vancouver’s History Goes Digital
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From the Vancouver Sun: West Vancouver’s photographic history went digital this month. Approximately 5,000 historical photos depicting more than 70 years of the district’s evolution are in the process of being converted to a digital format and posted online, thanks to the West Vancouver Memorial Library. “They really look good online,” said systems librarian Maryann […]
Interactive Website Maps Pittsburgh’s History
April 7, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Mapping and Historical Site Viewer” — http://peoplemaps.esri.com/pittviewer/ — popped up on someone’s Facebook page, then spread. Jonathon Denson of McKees Rocks described it as “an awesome mapping tool” on his Discovering Historic Pittsburgh website. Someone then posted it on City-Data.com, where Gene Wilson of Allegheny West found it. [Clip] To […]
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Jason Priem, UNC SILS Ph.D. Student and Co-PI Heather Piwowar, receive $125K Grant to Track the Impact of Scholarly Work on the Web
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From a UNC School of Information and Library Science Announcement: Jason Priem, a third-year doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), and Heather Piwowar, a postdoctoral research associate at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, have been awarded a grant totaling $125,000 from […]
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Now Available: Video of 9th Columbia University Libraries Symposium
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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Videos from the symposium were made available online a couple of days ago. “New Models of Academic Collaboration” was the title of the event that took place on March 23, 2012. From the Columbia U. Calendar Description Promo: Research Libraries are discovering the value of collaboration among and within institutions. As these collaborative models evolve, […]
Audiobooks: Two Reasons to Congratulate Hugh McGuire and the LibriVox Team
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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What are those two reasons? Direct to LibriVox web site. 1. LibriVox reports that over 100,000,000 public domain audiobooks have been downloaded (free) from their digital collection on the Internet Archive site. “The LibriVox collection is one of the most popular on the Internet Archive,” said Brewster Kahle, Founder and Director of the Internet Archive. […]
Posted in: Audio, Publishing
Just Released: Free iPad App from IBM Reinvents Iconic ’60s-Era Infographic on History of Math
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From IBM: To celebrate the history of math and its impact on the world, IBM has released Minds of Modern Mathematics, an iPad app that re-imagines a classic 50-foot infographic on the history of math created by husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames and displayed at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City. […]
Mobile: iPhone Users More Likely to Access Wi-Fi than Android Users in the US and UK
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From comScore: A U.S. analysis of Wi-Fi and mobile Internet usage across unique smartphones on the iOS and Android platforms reveals that 71 percent of all unique iPhones used both mobile and Wi-Fi networks to connect to the Internet, while only 32 percent of unique Android mobile phones used both types of connections. A further […]
Posted in: Mobile Access, Statistics
New World Economic Forum Report and Data Set Looks at Emergence of a New Digital Divide
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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Direct to: The Global Information Technology Report 2012 Direct to Network Readiness Index 2012 Data Platform (Interactive, Visualizations) via a WEF News Release: Despite efforts over the past decade to develop information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, a new digital divide in terms of ICT impacts persists, according to the latest rankings […]
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British Library Acquires Original Manuscript of Benjamin Britten’s ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From The British Library: The British Library has acquired the draft score of ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, one of the most famous compositions of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Completed on New Year’s Eve 1945, this original manuscript charts the composer’s earliest ideas for what has become one of the most frequently performed pieces […]
Posted in: History, Humanities
The New York Public Library Digitizes Early American History
April 6, 2012
by Gary D. Price
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From the NYPL Announcement: Thousands of historical documents at The New York Public Library – including material handwritten by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and papers from authors such as Mark Twain – will soon be accessible to the public online, thanks in large part due to a generous gift of $500,000 from The Polonsky […]
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August 13, 2016
by Gary D. Price
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