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Feed: LIBRARY STUFF
The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development
Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
07-Feb-12 By: Steven
NYT – “The new version of Wolfram Alpha arrives Wednesday afternoon. Its formal name is Wolfram Alpha Pro, and Dr. Wolfram calls “Step 2, the next step of what can be done with this approach,” which he describes as a “computational knowledge engine.” This is a premium version of the search engine: $4.99 a month, [...]
Libraries to be “pop-up” tourist information points during Olympics
07-Feb-12 By: Steven
Surrey News – “Libraries and museums will become “pop-up” tourist information points for the 2012 Games to help cater for the influx of tourists. The move was inspired by the “pop-up” phenomenon, which has seen temporary restaurants and retail stores appear in homes, businesses and street corners across the world.”
Goodbye, state funding for California libraries
07-Feb-12 By: Steven
KALW – “The bad news is that state funding for California libraries has been completely eliminated. There’s not really any good news about that except that it was expected. This past July, state library funding was sliced in half, and there was a trigger amendment attached to the budget that would eliminate state funding for [...]
The UK’s highest court launches a Twitter account to broadcast its latest rulings
06-Feb-12 By: Steven
The Next Web – “The highest court in the UK has launched a Twitter account and will begin tweeting news about its latest judgements imminently. The @UKSupremeCourt account has yet to tweet, but the court’s Twitter ‘broadcast service’ will kick-off by tweeting live coverage of the new justice Lord Reed being sworn in at the [...]
The Reading Life: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ turns 50
03-Feb-12 By: Steven
LA Times – “”Cuckoo’s Nest.” Sure, everyone’s heard of it. But is it worth reading? Before Jack Nicholson won his first Oscar, before there was a bus full of merry pranksters, there was a writing student with a swing-shift job in a mental ward. It’s the Ken Kesey of that era who stares from the [...]
With grant, libraries make tool to simplify citations
03-Feb-12 By: Steven
Columbia Spectator – “For most Columbia undergraduates, making bibliographic citations boils down to a few formatting styles, like MLA and Chicago, to learn in University Writing. But for professors, researchers, and graduate students, there are over 1900 different styles to contend with. Their lives might be about to get a little bit easier—the Columbia University [...]
A Normal Book
03-Feb-12 By: Steven
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FCC Pushes E-Textbooks on U.S. Schools Facing Budget Crunch
02-Feb-12 By: Steven
Bloomberg – “A Federal Communications Commission effort to bring digital textbooks to U.S. students faces resistance from schools with limited budgets for buying devices such as Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPad tablet computer. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced plans yesterday to get all U.S. students from kindergarten through the 12th grade using electronic titles within five [...]
Ethiopia Power of books celebrated by UN chief as new library opens in Ethiopian capital
01-Feb-12 By: Steven
Relief Web – “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon celebrated the benefits that books can bring to young people as he opened a library at an Ethiopian primary school that has been established under an innovative United Nations scheme. At a ceremony yesterday in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, Mr. Ban took part in the hand over of [...]
No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK?
31-Jan-12 By: Steven
NPR – “Jonathan Franzen’s in the news again, this time talking about how e-books are chiseling away at the foundations of civilization as we know it. Absurd, isn’t it? That the author of two of the better regarded novels of the past decade (give or take) would be concerned about how you read his books.”
“Little Free Libraries” pop up in MN and across U.S.
30-Jan-12 By: Steven
WESTLAWNEXT IPAD APP ADDS NEW COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES
30-Jan-12 By: Steven
Press Release – “The WestlawNext iPad app now features enhanced folder sharing capabilities. Users can save their research results, including notes and KeyCite® warning flags, in folders that can be instantly shared with others. For instance, an attorney or researcher in an office can share research with an attorney in a court setting or collaborate [...]
Checking Out – Porn Books & Librarians
30-Jan-12 By: Steven
Paris Review – “Porn books and librarians have always had a passionate, mutually defining relationship—it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word pornography. So it comes as no surprise that the sexy librarian, a fixture of the pornographic imagination, is most at home in books. Each [...]
Libraries turn to cloud for e-book lending
29-Jan-12 By: Steven
MPR – “Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, expanding their collections of e-books they can loan to patrons. That trend has 3M’s attention. The company has a long history of serving libraries. And 3M sees a big business opportunity in helping libraries build, manage and lend [...]
Brentwood pilot program brings eReaders to homebound
26-Jan-12 By: Steven
Contra Costa Times – “This winter local homebound seniors will have a chance to enjoy a new high-tech way of reading thanks to an innovative new Brentwood Library program that will serve as a countywide model. Under the program, they will have the opportunity to borrow Kindle Touch eReaders to access popular books and magazines [...]
What If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
26-Jan-12 By: Steven
ARL – “Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARL is proud to unveil the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Based on [...]
President Clinton’s Former Chief Of Staff Says: “Yes We Scan” (TCTV)
25-Jan-12 By: Steven
Techcrunch – “While efforts to digitize the contents of libraries has been going on for years now by organizations such as the Internet Archive and Google, the Library of Congress and, in fact, the U.S. Government, has yet to embark on its own comprehensive digitization program. There are efforts here and there, but nothing tackling [...]
Fair-Use Guide Hopes to Solve Librarians’ VHS-Cassette Problem
25-Jan-12 By: Steven
Chronicle of Higher Education – “The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call “the VHS-cassette problem.” Here’s the scenario: An academic library has a collection of video tapes that is slowly deteriorating, thanks to the fragile nature of analog media. A librarian would like to digitize the collection for [...]
New library e-catalogs offer expanded selection
25-Jan-12 By: Steven
AP – “Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry. OverDrive Inc., a major e-distributor for libraries, announced Wednesday the launch of a vastly expanded list for patrons, featuring not just e-books available for lending, but hundreds of thousands [...]
Audiobooks.com creates unlimited Netflix-like streaming
25-Jan-12 By: Steven
VatorNews – “There has been a lot of news and innovation in the publishing industry as of late. The iPad and the Kindle have been entering houses at record rates and is bringing entire libraries into a touch screen tablet. Apple also recently released iBooks 2 and iAuthors to allow people to independently publish textbook [...]
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