Denver Public Library?s new online service is giving city
residents access to popular eBooks directly from their homes and
offices. The Library serves over a half-million residents and 80% of
the city?s population has a library card and access to the new
service. ?This is an exciting opportunity to provide eBooks to the
city,? said Michelle Jeske, Manager of Web Information Services. ?This
year, we saw a 24% increase in the number of online library
transactions. eBooks that can be downloaded from our website fit very
well with this kind of public demand,? she added.
Denver Public Library Launches New Digital Library
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Crossmap.com Launches Comprehensive Christian Digital Library
Crossmap.com Launches Comprehensive Christian Digital Library09/25/2004 04:14 AM Crossmap is announcing the launch of its digital library, offering a
comprehensive collection of articles, books, and paintings among other
resources. We have formed partnerships with several other Christian
resource sites to freely offer the greatest selection of Christian
materials. [PRWEB Sep 25, 2004]
Denver Public Relations Resource, Absolutely PR, Recaps 2004's Key National and Local Placements, Plus Results of Trade and Denver Localization Media Awareness Campaigns
British Library Launches British Library Direct06/05/2005 11:20 PM The British Library has announced British Library Direct, which is a
pay-as-you-go service that offers nine million articles from 20,000
international research journals. These articles go back five years,
and...
The
Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of
scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific
and medical literature a freely available public resource. The
internet and electronic publishing enable the creation of public
libraries of science containing the full text and data of any
published research article, available free of charge to anyone,
anywhere in the world.
Immediate unrestricted access to
scientific ideas, methods, results, and conclusions will speed the
progress of science and medicine, and will more directly bring the
benefits of research to the public. To realize this potential, a new
business model for scientific publishing is required that treats the
costs of publication as the final integral step of the funding of a
research project. To demonstrate that this publishing model will be
successful for the publication of the very best research, PLoS will
publish its own journals. PLoS Biology launched its first issue on
October 13, 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine will follow in
2004.
PLoS is working with scientists, their societies,
funding agencies, and other publishers to pursue our broader goal of
ensuring an open-access home for every published article and to
develop tools to make the literature useful to scientists and the
public. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
The CIO for Philadelphia, Dianah Neff, says
'It's a technology whose time is here.' Other cities have announced
similar plans but none as comprehensive as Philadelphia. Lev Gonick,
chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University, which is
spearheading a WiFi project in Cleveland said, 'We like to say it
should be like the air you breathe - free and available everywhere. We
look at this like PBS or NPR. It should be a public resource.' " [patrickWeb]
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R. Crumb at the New York Public Library
R. Crumb at the New York Public Library04/18/2005 06:24 PM David Pescovitz:
Comic artist extraordinaire R. Crumb's memoir was published his month.
His only US public appearance to promote the book was last week at the
New York Public Library. He was interviewed on stage by art critic
Robert Hughes who previously compared Crumb to Bruegel and Goya. I
can't wait to read The R. Crumb Handbook! From the New York
Times:
"I want everyone to love me," he said, half-mockingly, after
explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial
stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were
hurtful to many people. "Please love me," Mr. Crumb added.
A woman in the audience then shouted, "We love you!," and Mr. Crumb
held up his hands, cringing, to stop the applause.
"O.K., you love me," he responded, laughing. "You're killing me, you
love me so much. You're choking me. Now back off."
There is a wealth of information available at the public library for
personal investors. Information comes in a variety of formats,
including reference books, circulating books, periodicals,
newsletters, loose-leaf services, CD-Roms, electronic databases, and
Internet sites. This has been added to Financial Resources
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New York Public Library Offers Free Wi-Fi
New York Public Library Offers Free Wi-Fi01/16/2004 11:01 AM Fifty-three libraries in the Bronx and Manhattan will offer free Wi-Fi
access: The libraries will provide filtered Internet access and
full-text searching on the database they've licensed. Alert librarian
Jenny Levine notes that the service filtered but the library's initial
disclosure is inadequate....
The Next Best Thing to Visiting the New Seattle Public Library
NYPL: Style Guide: Need to
come up with HTML and CSS coding standards for your company? You
could do a lot worse than this resource — a set of well-written,
easy-to-understand guides from the New
York Public Library.
"Nokia, Samsung, and Siemens have teamed up with big names in
printers to ensure that printing from mobile phones becomes as easy as
desktop printing.
The Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium (MIPC) today announced
that mobile handset makers Nokia, Samsung, and Siemens have become
strategic members of the consortium. MIPC is an industry group founded
by Canon, Epson, and HP to drive solutions and implementation
guidelines for providing users with easy to use mobile printing of
pictures taken with camera phones.
MIPC expects to have their first set of printing guidelines
available during the second half of 2004. Existing connectivity
technology standards and solutions such as Bluetooth wireless
technology, printing from memory cards and PictBridge will be the
underlying connectivity platforms for the consortium's work. What if
any licensing conditions there will be for the consortium's guidelines
is unclear.
According to research firm InfoTrends, camera phone users will
print over five billion images in 2004. That number is expected to
grow to 37.2 billion printed pictures in 2008, when, InfoTrend
predicts, 85% of all mobile phones sold will include an embedded
camera." [infoSync
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A resource directory with more than 500 documents and web links on
ethnomathematics, indigenous math, and mathematical expression in
world cultures. Organized for browsing by subject, geographical area,
cultural group, and language.
The
MIT theses library provides digitized Master's and Doctoral theses
from 1879 to the present. Theses are presented as scanned images, with
PDFs and hardcopy available for ordering from the MIT Libraries. The
page also links to MIT's Barton catalog, where users can perform a
search on all MIT theses. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)04/17/2004 06:05 AM Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) provides free
access to an archive of international literature on the commons,
common-pool resources and common property. Features for authors and
readers include advanced searching; browsing by region, sector, and
author name; an author submission portal for uploading a variety of
document formats; and a service that uses email to alert subscribers
to new documents in their area of interest. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds
New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds04/10/2005 09:35 PM The New York Public Library has decided to sell 19 works of art from
its collection so that it can better compete in acquisitions of
important books and collections.
The Tibetan and
Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using
Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and
the Himalayas for free access from around the world. Serving a wide
range of communities, we publish multilingual studies, multimedia
learning resources, and creative works concerned with the area's
environments, cultures, and histories. This has been added to Theology Resources
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MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center
at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in
Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of
this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the
emerging best practices of the American digital library community and
apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of
scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual,
multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing
audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and
teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students
of African languages in both the United States and Africa. It also
provides a valuable model for creating and distributing a diverse
array of materials in a region with very limited electronic
connectivity. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
"The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect
and make available a repository of digitized video content for the
digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other
research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide
range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic
segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that
describe video content; the development of face recognition
algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result
sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve
similar problems will have access to the same video content, the
repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will
enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences
are used for text retrieval." The project has demonstrated the
efficacy of many technical processes for organizing, searching, and
scaling video DLs. This has been added to Research Resources
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First Internet digital film library debuts11/11/2003 11:40 AM The CinePaint Digital Film Library, launched on Halloween, has placed
the first digital intermediates on the Internet. These frames are
sequences from the 1903 George Méliès film, Tom Thumb et
Dum Dum. Méliès is an important pioneer in motion
picture history, credited with creating the genre of science fiction
in 1902 with his famous film, A Trip to the Moon.
This 100-page
report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a diverse set
of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes
them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully from
the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review
rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of
the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with
its organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience,
status, and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements
are presented in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of
the nuances inherent in seemingly straightforward factual information,
such as "audience" or "size."
New Zealand Library to Build Digital Archive
New Zealand Library to Build Digital Archive04/10/2005 11:58 PM The National Library of New Zealand is planning to build a digital
archive, with an initial budget of $24 million to create a digital
repository. Not only Internet content but...
ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the
Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available
information, including software, music, literature, art, history,
science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a
collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University
of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. This has been added to Directory Resources
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Kepler - A Digital Library For Building Communities
The purpose of Kepler is to give any user the ability to
easily self-archive publications by means of an "archivelet": a
self-contained, self-installing software system that functions as an
Open Archives Initiative data provider. Kepler archivelets are
designed to be easy to install, use and maintain. Kepler is a perfect
solution for those that need to be OAI-PMH compliant, but do not have
the resources for more complex OAI-PMH software installations.
In this web site we document and make code available
from an NSF supported project to develop Kepler for communities that
wish to tailor their publication and search services and enforce
configurable standards. Our long-term vision is to provide tools and
software for communities to easily deploy digital libraries that are
customized for their needs, can be populated, managed, and are "open"
for development of future services. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject
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Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online
Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online12/02/2003 01:16 AM The University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions
collection, which represents about a third of the University of
California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print
titles. Most of the books are available only from computers on...
The Digital Mirror: Treasures of the National Library of Wales
Google Turns a New Page with Digital Library Project
Google Turns a New Page with Digital Library Project12/19/2004 03:06 PM Google announced an agreement Tuesday with Oxford University and some
leading U.S. research libraries to begin converting their holdings
into digital files searchable over the Web.
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
The Digital Library for Earth System Education
(DLESE) is a grassroots community effort involving educators,
students, and scientists working together to improve the quality,
quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth
system at all levels. DLESE supports Earth system science education by
providing:
* Access to high-quality collections of
educational resources * Access to Earth data sets and imagery,
including the tools and interfaces that enable their effective use in
educational settings * Support services to help educators and
learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources * Communication networks to facilitate interactions and
collaborations across all dimensions of Earth system education
DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers
and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets,
visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and
much more. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, DLESE is
being designed, built, and governed by community members from around
the country. To this end, the DLESE Steering
Committee has developed the DLESE
Strategic Plan.
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"I want everyone to love me," he said, half-mockingly, after
explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial
stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were
hurtful to many people. "Please love me," Mr. Crumb added.