The ResourceShelf and a few other blogs point to the announcement of a major initiative to digitize United States newspapers. The National Digital Newspaper Program seeks to make 30 million pages of old newspapers available in 2006. National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Bruce Cole announced the program in a speech at the National Press [...]
LIS News says this week (Nov. 15 to 21) is National Children’s Book Week.
Great! Here’s one week when I don’t need to be shy about reading kid’s books.
The last paragraph of this negative piece on blogs and Wikipedia fuses a few ideas I’ve been kicking around this blog recently:
“… while Wikipedia is an interesting social experiment and ‘includes information more often associated with almanacs, gazetteers and specialist magazines,’ it’s too untrustworthy to be used as a secondary source. I prefer the expensive [...]
Behind the Bylines
Karen Arenson of The New York Times
Anand Vaishnav of The Boston Globe, who covers K-12 education
Beth Potier of the Harvard Gazette
A reporter from The Appian, the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s newspaper
J.D., who works on The Appian, introduced the evening by talking about the importance of education writing.
Anand started off in the education [...]
Shimon’s giving one away, perhaps because he finished his project already.
I came up with what I think is a brilliant idea, but a very bright programmer told me it probably isn’t possible. I can’t program, anyway, so it’s not something I can actually do. If you’re desperate for an idea and are willing to share [...]
In just a few hours, three journalists covering the education beat will talk about their careers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Longfellow Hall in the Eliot-Lyman Room. One of them is Beth Potier of the Harvard University Gazette.
Notes
Blogs for Information Dissemination and Knowledge Management, ASIST Annual Meeting 2004
Jessica Baumgart
Garrett Eastman, Rowland Institute, Harvard University
Christina Pikas, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Kris Liberman, Fidelity Investments
I have lengthy notes from this presentation, so they’re in my stories section.
I have not yet been able to successfully post my presentation. If the server doesn’t let [...]
Information Visualization for Searching and Browsing: Theories and Applications, ASIST Annual Meeting 2004
Javed Mostafa, Indiana University
Allison Druin, University of Maryland
Xia Lin, Drexel University
Jin Zhang and Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Moderator: Jin Zhang
Javed Mostafa started out by showing screen shots of search engines using visualization. How do we get users to go deeper into the search? [...]
Information Visualization for Searching and Browsing: Theories and Applications, ASIST Annual Meeting 2004
Javed Mostafa, Indiana University
Allison Druin, University of Maryland
Xia Lin, Drexel University
Jin Zhang and Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Moderator: Jin Zhang
I have a long post about this session on search engines and search technology, focusing on the International Children’s Digital Library, so I’ve [...]
I keep comparing the ASIST Annual Meeting to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conferences I’ve attended. The content seems quite different. The sessions I attended were often based on academic research. Many of the sessions I go to at SLA are based on people doing things in their jobs. There’s a difference between theory and [...]