The week(s) in Tweets: 10/3/09 - 10/16/09
News from the OCLC Twitter stream, from 10/3/09 through today.
- Now online: Distinguished Seminar Series, "Finding
the Phoenix" by Helene Blowers, Dir of Digital Strategy, Col Metro Lib
- Google Editions aims to bring e-books to all devices (Ars
Technica)
- OCLC Research and The RIN Announce Joint Project on
Research Support Services
- Join OCLC for a
Dewey Breakfast at AASL & chat about the DDC's value for school libraries.
Register now.
- Register for OCLC's "Once it's digital, anything is
possible," w/ Managing Director of Digital Library Collections at U Buffalo
- Webcast of Anne R. Kenney's Distinguished Seminar
SeriesPresentation, "Approaching an Entity Crisis" now available
- OCLC offers Metadata Services for publishers to enhance
title metadata
- Outgoing: Bibliographic Statistics 2009
- xISBN now includes optional WorldCat.org links
- The Democratization of Online Social Networks (Pew)
- Register for OCLC events at #CLA09, including update
lunch, QP users' mtg, +9 more presentations.
- University of Utah releases iPhone apps for the study of
human anatomy
- Emphasis on Ebooks (hangingtogether.org)
- Hearst Takes A Stab At Semi-Automated [semi-semantic?]
Content With LMK (TechCrunch)
- World's largest collection of cartoon art & comics at
OSU. Billy Ireland Cartoon Lib and Museum
- Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces (Smashing
Magazine)
- Holiday Outlook for eReaders and eBooks: Even Better Than
Previously Thought
- Discoverability .. a report that's worth a look (Lorcan
Dempsey)
- Hodge at #PLA delays DCMS Library Review
- Kindle now $259, available worldwide with wireless
delivery (Ars Technica)
- Trendsmap -
Real-time local Twitter trends
- FTC to Bloggers: Disclose Freebies or Face $11,000 Fine
(ReadWriteWeb)
- NYTimes.com announces custom RSS tool: a simple way to
query Times Article Search API & consume the results.
- Nat'l Archives & Records Administration and US Gov
Printing Office publish Federal Register in XML
- Knight Commission Says Libraries Crucial to Democracy;
Foundation Offers $3.1M in Grants - 10/5/2009 (Library Journal)
- Book Metadata Outside of the Library (Metalogue)
- Google announces nine new side panel search options
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