Yahoo Webscope: A reference library of interesting and scientifically useful...
The Yahoo Webscope Program is a reference library of interesting and scientifically useful datasets for non-commercial use by academics and other scientists. All datasets have been reviewed to conform...
View ArticleAmazing Photos of the Sahara Desert’s Lost Libraries
Polish photographer Michal Huniewicz, 31, has been traveling the world for the last seven years with the goal of visiting and photographing some of the most interesting - and remote - places on earth....
View ArticleOnline Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data.
Abstract: Consumers constantly enter into blind bargains online. We trade our personal information for free websites and apps, without knowing exactly what will be done with our data. There is...
View ArticleWhat Are the Most Beautiful Libraries in Washington, D.C.?
For many, the Library of Congress is the most beautiful library in Washington, D.C., if not the DMV area. Maybe even the nation. But there are plenty of other libraries in the nation's capital that...
View ArticleThe Plan to Give Every Cellphone User Free Data
“I felt conflicted, frankly,” said Steve Song, a telecommunications policy activist. “I do think it’s problematic to have one of the largest companies in the world managing a large chunk of the world’s...
View ArticleLebanese refuse to turn the page on public libraries
Beirut: Lebanon boasts the highest rate of reading among Arab states and ranks an impressive 37th globally. But, despite its 95 per cent literacy rate, many believe that the pursuit of knowledge...
View ArticleWhat books were taken to the Antarctic 100 years ago?
When Sir Ernest Shackleton set off for Antarctica on his ship Endurance, he made sure he had plenty of reading material. But details of precisely what books he took have remained hidden in this...
View ArticleApple and the FBI: Why is this relevant to libraries?
Why is this relevant to libraries? I think it’s past time that we start paying very close attention to the details of our data in ways that we have, at best, hand-waved as a vendor responsibility in...
View ArticleAngus, Thongs author Louise Rennison dies – BBC News
Louise Rennison, author of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, has died. The book, which was part of her series of her hugely popular books The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, was made into a...
View ArticleALCTS’ Piercy Award to LYRASIS’ Annie Peterson
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) named Annie Peterson, Preservation Services Librarian at LYRASIS, the winner of the 2016 Esther J. Piercy Award. The award will...
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