http://www.resourceshelf.com A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:44:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, we already posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app today (NASA Images) but like they say, one iPhone App deserves another, especially on the weekend. Here's an iPhone/iTouch app that some people have been asking for. It's a "very simple" front-end for Google Wave from company named Waveboard. It's not ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/07/how-about-an-iphoneitouch-app-for-google-wave-its-here/ On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It's a free app. Today, something new. Now, it's time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/07/new-iphone-app-nasa-images/ National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative (PDF: 154 KB) From Highlights (PDF; 45 KB): NARA has completed two of five planned increments of ERA, but has experienced schedule delays and cost overruns, and several functions planned for the system's initial release were deferred. Although NARA initially ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/gao-national-archives-progress-and-risks-in-implementing-its-electronic-records-archive-initiative/ From the Announcement: Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/david-ferriero-confirmed-by-u-s-senate-as-10th-archivist-of-the-united-states/ A post on the Twitter Blog says that the company is beginning to "experiment" to improve the relevance when you run a search on a trending topic by returning "higher quality" and thereby more useful results. The improvement won't be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/twitter-begins-work-to-improve-relevance-of-trending-topic-searches/ From the Description: Web content changes all the time. If we don't save that content before it disappears, a major part of our cultural history will be lost. The Library of Congress is working to provide permanent access to web content of historical importance. It selects websites for collection, requests permissions from ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/new-video-from-discusses-web-archiving-web-archiving/ Overview ||| Complete Special Report There are six lists available. The primary list is Agenda Setters. Other lists can be accessed via the down menu at the top of each list. + Top Agenda Setters (The Primary List) (Sir Tim Berners-Lee #1) + Top Business Leaders (Steve Jobs #1) + Top Entrepreneurs (Jack Dorsey, ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/lists-rankings-agenda-setters-top-50-most-influential-individuals-in-the-worldwide-technology-and-it-industries/ Access the Complete Interview (via Silicon.com) The interview runs three pages. Here are a few points that we found to be most interesting. However, the entire interview is a "must read." + "One of the things that's important to know about Wikipedia is that the entries that are edited by hundreds of ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-with-silicon-com/ This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The guide is divided into the following sections: + Print Publications + Online Resources +++ Selected Individual Poems +++ Collections ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/a-new-web-guide-from-the-library-of-congress-poetry-of-september-11/ Barbara Quint writes: The primary attraction for the new Wall Street Journal Professional Edition [an online resource] lies in its incorporation of Factiva content. The service will integrate content from 17,000 Factiva sources with WSJ.com content to create news flows covering key industries, companies, etc. Users will also be able to ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/factiva-expanding-web-presence-in-wall-street-journal-professional-edition/ From the Announcement: The Modern Language Association (MLA) has signed an agreement with Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, to include [its] MLA International Bibliography in the Summon web-scale discovery service. The agreement enables the Bibliography to be discoverable through the Summon service... The MLA International Bibliography provides a ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/06/mla-to-include-international-bibliography-in-the-summon-web-scale-discovery-service/ Something very new from Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland. From the Web Site: Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to a selection of audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. As part of Images for the Future, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/05/a-very-new-searchable-collection-of-open-images-from-the-netherland-to-reuse-remix-and-mashup/ Direct links to each statistic on this OECD page. Access to this database and its data is free of chage and contains data grouped into three categories: Labour market outcomes + Unemployment rates, employment to population ratio and labour force participation rates + Unemployment, employment, labour force and population of working age (15-64) + Unemployment ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/05/online-oecd-employment-database/ Webcast: Preserving OSTI's Printed Archive A three minute video from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy. Here's the Blurb: The American public has invested billions of dollars in the atomic energy and subsequent related programs. This investment has mostly been in the form of ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/05/wecast-preserving-ostis-printed-archive-255/ Once again, the U.S. Census is online with another useful compilation of facts that include direct links to the sources where the facts are found. This time we're posting a "Fact for Features" about Veterans Day which will take place next Wednesday. Access the Complete Document Here is just a small ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/05/fast-facts-compilation-veterans-day-2009-november-11th/ These guides are not only useful our UK readers but also to others located in places around the globe. Why might these guides be useful? Two ideas. 1) If you're working with people who have an interest in international business. 2) It's quite possible you'll learn (the info pro) about ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/04/the-british-library-business-ip-centre-publishes-22-research-guides-all-accessible-free-online/ OverDrive has updated their rankings page to reflect the most popular downloaded titles from libraries using OverDrive during the month of October. Access the Complete List The complete list includes the Top 10 eBooks or audiobooks in eight categories. Most audiobooks include an excerpt. You'll find it by clicking a title ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/04/october-rankings-published-most-download-ebooks-and-eaudiobooks-from-overdrive/ The Detroit Free Press joins many other newspapers as part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Overall, the collection contains more than 25 million pages dating back to 1764. From the News Release: News from the Motor City — from before statehood to the American Civil War to the birth and growth of ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/04/proquest-releases-digitized-archive-of-the-detroit-free-press-1831%e2%80%901922/ Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he's best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: "We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library," he says. "Do we want that under ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/04/internet-archive-founder-brewster-kahle-profiled-in-forbes/ From a Post by Matt McGee: Google and its UK map provider, Tele Atlas, are cleaning the egg off their faces this week over the appearance of a town called Argleton in Google Maps. ...and there’s even an Argleton place page with photos and more. Matt also points out that there is Google ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/04/google-maps-creates-a-completly-new-town-in-the-uk/