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Peek at Space Pix
Software Engineering Patrik Göthe has a nice little project called PeekSpace in which he curates free·to·use space photography — much of it from NASA. As he says, there are plenty of free images of space on the web, but they are scattered in “an unaccessible sea of quantity and flash-slide shows.” So, Patrick has gone […]
Lunchtime Listen: Future Crimes
Lunchtime Listen: Book Discussion on Future Crimes, C-SPAN, Book-TV (February 25, 2015). Marc Goodman talks about his book, Future crimes: Everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable, and what we can do about it (New York : Doubleday, 2015), about how criminals, corporations, and governments use technology to disrupt the lives of people around the world. […]
“An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates
In a new article in Portal, Diana Kichuk examines the reliability and accuracy of digital text extracted from printed books in five digital libraries: the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, the HathiTrust, Google Books, and the Digital Public Library of America. She focuses particularly on the accuracy and utility of the digital text for reading in […]
The Official Senate CIA Torture Report
Update GPO has released an official version of the “THE SENATE CIA REPORT” as Senate Report 113-228. The digital version is available on GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-113srpt288/pdf/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf The print version is available for purchase at GPO’s retail and online bookstore for $29. http://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01571-0 This is a single-volume, 712 page version. It contains: Letter […]
Reflections on the end of a year and the beginning of a new year
January 1, 2014 / 1 Comment on Reflections on the end of a year and the beginning of a new year
James and I were both impressed to see that MLIS student Crystal Vicente posted a link on govdoc-l to her paper about the effects on government information of the government shutdown. It is great to see library students addressing the issues that confront the future of government information. We’d like to see more students […]
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