Professional Reading Shelf
Books
Source: Book Business
Creating the Perfect Title
“An Anglo-American research team for Lulu.com, a Web site for self-publishers, recently analyzed the titles of every novel that topped the hardback fiction section of The New York Times Best Sellers list from 1955 to 2004, and then compared those titles to the titles of less successful novels by the same authors. The study’s goal was to determine the perfect title for a best-selling novel. The computer model, designed by statisticians who analyzed the titles of fiction best-sellers over the past 50 years, found that “Sleeping Murder,” the last published novel by Agatha Christie, was “the perfect title” for a best-selling novel.”
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Digital Preservation
Source: DPC/PADI
DPC/PADI What’s new in digital preservation
A comprehensive look at what’s been going on in digital preservation. Compiled by Deb Woodyard-Robinson at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Marian Hanley at the National Library of Australia.
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Access to Information–United States
Source: GAO
New GAO Report: Managing Sensitive Information: DOE and DOD Could Improve Their Policies and Oversight
“In the interest of national security and personal privacy and for other reasons, federal agencies place dissemination restrictions on information that is unclassified yet still sensitive. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have both issued policy guidance on how and when to protect sensitive information. DOE marks documents with this information as Official Use Only (OUO) while DOD uses the designation For Official Use Only (FOUO). GAO was asked to (1) identify and assess the policies, procedures, and criteria DOE and DOD employ to manage OUO and FOUO information; and (2) determine the extent to which DOE’s and DOD’s training and oversight programs assure that information is identified, marked, and protected according to established criteria.” Direct to abstract and full text.

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