Archive for the 'Research' Category
From today's Washington Post:
"It's odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books.
The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google's chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home [...]
Excellent article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education by Linda Kerber, President of the American Historical Association, about the importance of preserving our nation’s historical record. In the article she discusses three recent incidents where the government has withdrawn information that was previously accessible to the public, and the impact that this will have [...]
For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future.
Personally, I’m still holding out for the flying cars.
Court to Rule on Delaware Public Records Law
By RITA K. FARRELL
Published: May 12, 2006
PHILADELPHIA, May 11 — A panel of federal appeals court judges will rule on the constitutionality of Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act, which denies nonresidents access to public records in the state, the legal home of many major corporations.
The three-judge panel of [...]
Courtesy of Michael Arrington’s Techcrunch:
More Microsoft news today: Live.com has announced the upcoming launch of QnA, and a few screen shots have been conveniently leaked as well (see end of post).
QnA is a question and answer service that looks like it will be a very close copy of Yahoo Answers. Google’s comparable service, Google [...]
National Archives Says Records Were Wrongly Classified
WASHINGTON, April 26 — An audit by the National Archives of more
than 25,000 historical documents withdrawn from public access since
1999 found that more than a third did not contain sensitive information
justifying classification, archives officials announced Wednesday.
They said the removal of the
remaining two-thirds was technically justified, though many had already
been [...]
“You have no idea what they have here. I’m not the college-educated guy. I’m the street-educated guy. This has been my college.”
Mr.
Sabol, 49, is one of more than 63,000 entrepreneurs, investors and
small-business owners who have been trained at the business library to
search its thousands of print and electronic resources for real-life
business applications. The library is [...]
"TALK of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when
traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance
requirement. But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search
engines making today's students dumber?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/opinion/26tenner.html
From my perspective, I don't believe that it is making them dumber, but instead gives them a degree of confidence that the [...]
From Bonnie Shucha’s WisBlawg-From the UW Law Library:
Artwork courtesy of UW’s Document Assistant, Margaret Booth.
“The celebration marks the evolution of a publication that began as a
two-column, 16-page gazette of the burgeoning federal bureaucracy
created by the New Deal. It has progressed from a diary of completed
rulemakings — usually about five items a day at first — [...]
From Bob Tedeschi’s E-Commerce Report Column in today’s NY Times:
SINCE Google reached its perch atop the Internet world, challengers have emerged from all over Silicon Valley. So why not from Jersey City?
That’s the home of Accoona.com, the latest entry on the list of would-be search engine kings. The privately held Jersey City-based company announced last [...]
