http://www.resourceshelf.com A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:30:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The complete list of papers/presentations available can be found here. The meeting took place October October 14–15, 2009 in Washington, DC. Audio of the presentations is also available. Here are the Titles of the Sessions (Each Session Includes Presentations by One or More Presenters): + New Models for Federal Depository ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/proceedings-of-the-155th-arl-membership-meeting-association-of-research-libraries/ Its been a week since Settlement 2.0 was released. We have a comprehensive press review along with many related documents from the past week here. Until the next major event and our next press review, we will continue to post Settlement 2.0 news and analysis with a focus on stories, ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/google-books-settlement-2-0-evaluating-competition/ Take a multimedia tour of 14 features that Bing offers up. Each tour stop includes a video overview, some "behind the feature" comments (feel free to skip), and direct links to that specific feature. A useful way to get up to speed on a few features that are unique to ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/bing-posts-behind-bing-tour/ From the Article: Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new ‘query by example’ methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. A team of researchers ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/p2p-comes-to-the-aid-of-audiovisual-search/ From an e-Mail Announcement: The "Photochrom Travel View" set in Flickr now features more than 750 prints, including scenes in Canada, Wales, Belgium, and (most recently) The Netherlands photographed at the turn of the twentieth century. The Belgian scenes, in particular, feature people at work and recreation, in addition to the ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/library-of-congress-updates-their-flickr-photochrom-collection/ Crossing the digital divide to Grandma's house How do you get to grandma's house in the digital age? It's like asking five New Yorkers how to get to Brooklyn: Everyone's got a different answer and no one's necessarily wrong. Say you live in St. Petersburg and grandma lives in Palm Beach. Mapquest would ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/crossing-the-digital-divide-to-grandmas-house/ A Never Ending "Virtual Stream" of Digitized Text by Gary Price, Senior Editior When Chris Sherman and I were writing and then giving book talks and presentations about The Invisible Web, we said John Mark Ockerbloom's Online Books Page was an essential resource for anyone interested in digitized, full text books. ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/collection-development-want-a-non-stop-stream-of-recently-digitized-ebooks-to-choose-from-check-this-out/ From the Announcement: The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will advance technology that can recover and digitally re-master rare early sound recordings made on wax cylinders – including experimental recordings created in the 1880’s by Alexander Graham Bell -- even when the original cylinder is cracked or ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/imls-funds-research-on-3d-scanner-technology-to-save-endangered-recordings/ The blog has a new look that's very easy on the eyes. You'll also find links to the District Dispatch RSS and Twitter feeds. If the intersection of the library world with the world of U.S. politics is of interest, District Dispatch (D) is essential reading. So, a ResourceShelf tip ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/congrats-and-kudos-to-alas-washington-office-team-on-the-new-look-of-their-district-dispatch-blog/ From the Announcement: Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American Collection features original historical documents including: + Ratified Indian Treaties – dating back to 1722 + Indian Census Rolls ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/another-new-digitization-project-from-nara-and-footnote-the-native-american-collection/ From the Article: Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site. It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights. [Snip] Customers of USocial use it to boost follower and friend numbers on social network sites such ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/buying-your-friends-and-followers-on-social-networks/ From the Article: The tunes may be a little avant-garde for most tastes. They're unlikely to give Britney Spears and Beyoncé a run for their money, but are impressive achievements all the same. Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions to fit in single, 140-character tweets. The trend started ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/twitter-tunes-the-album-ready-for-download-free/ From the Article: Judge Denny Chin has given his preliminary approval to the Google Book Search settlement agreement and established a timeline to move the agreement toward a final resolution. A final settlement/fairness hearing has been set for February 18 at which Judge Chin will hear arguments to determine whether the ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/20/judge-gives-preliminary-approval-to-google-deal-sets-feb-18-for-final-hearing/ Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Assistance Network for Online Journalists Source: Citizen Media Law Project We are delighted to announce (PDF) the public launch of the Berkman Center's Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono (i.e., free!) initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics from across the ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/citizen-media-law-project-launches-legal-assistance-network-for-online-journalists/ This has been "Word of the Year" week. First, The New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 “Word of the Year" was announced. The winning word? Unfriend. Example: Steve unfriended Julie on Facebook. Our post also includes other words that Oxford University Press was considering. Today, Merriam-Webster released their 2009 Word of the ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-announced/ From the Announcement: A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities across the entire library. Researchers can now ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/hathitrust-offers-full-text-search-of-millions-of-digitized-books-and-journals/ Building an Online Bulwark to Fend Off Identity Fraud Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with desperation during the downturn. Schemes seem to multiply daily, as scammers often half a world away dream up new ways to steal data to enrich themselves. According to ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/building-an-online-bulwark-to-fend-off-identity-fraud/ From the Release: Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office, today filed testimony for the official record of the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education’s hearing, “Improving Literacy Skills of Children and Young Adults.” The comments highlighted the contributions ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/ala-submits-testimony-to-congress-on-libraries-role-in-improving-literacy-skills-of-children-and-young-adults/ Some Courts Raise Bar on Reading Employee Email Big Brother is watching. That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about using email. But recent cases have shown that employees sometimes have more privacy rights than they might expect when it comes to the corporate email server. Legal experts say that ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/some-courts-raise-bar-on-reading-employee-email/ From a Summary: Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/19/new-research-from-jim-jansen-search-engines-are-source-of-learning/