“In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.orgOCLCs freely available end user interface on the Weband conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide. The report, Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want, presents findings from these research efforts in order to understand: The metadata elements that are most important to end… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
CBO: Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009 “Households and businesses in a modern industrial economy like that of the United States emit a number of different greenhouse gases through a wide variety of activitiesany or all of which might be regulated under a mitigation program. The Environmental Protection Agency… Continue Reading
Financial Stability Oversight Board Issues Report on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
News release: “he Financial Stability Oversight Board (Oversight Board) today issued its second quarterly report to Congress on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA). The report covers the period January 1 to March 31, 2009. The report highlights the oversight activities of the Oversight Board during the quarterly period. It also presents the Oversight Board’s… Continue Reading
List of 19 Banks Undergoing Stress Tests
WSJ: The government confirmed the following list of the 19 banks undergoing stress tests. WSJ: “The U.S. government may end up acquiring a significant ownership stake in banks as it works to stabilize the financial system, according to a draft report from top regulators — the starkest acknowledgment yet of the extent to which the… Continue Reading
White paper on process and methodologies employed by federal banking supervisory agencies in capital assessment of large U.S. bank holding companies
Federal Reserve Board: “A white paper describing the process and methodologies employed by the federal banking supervisory agencies in their forward-looking capital assessment of large U.S. bank holding companies was published on Friday. The white paper is intended to assist analysts and other interested members of the public in understanding the results of the Supervisory… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve System publishes annual financial statements
News release: “The Federal Reserve System on [April 23, 2009] published the annual financial statements for the combined Federal Reserve Banks, the 12 individual Federal Reserve Banks, the limited liability companies (LLCs) that were created in 2008 to respond to strains in financial markets, and the Board of Governors for the years ended December 31,… Continue Reading
FAA Bird Strike Database Now Available
News release: “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will make its entire Bird Strike database available on a public website this Friday, April 24. Portions of the database have been publicly available since the information was first collected in 1990, but the public will now be able to access all of the database’s fields. The FAA… Continue Reading
BLS Economic News Release: Mass Layoffs in March 2009
News release: ” Employers took 2,933 mass layoff actions in March that resulted in the separation of 299,388 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a… Continue Reading
Report: Switching Intent among Customers Increases up to Threefold When Banks Are Acquired
News release: “The likelihood of customers switching banks increases by up to three times after their bank merges with or is acquired by another financial institution, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Report…The report examines the drivers of customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction with their new banks following mergers that… Continue Reading
House Hearing on Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy: Recent Developments on April 23, 2009. The hearing focused on technologies that network operators utilize to monitor consumer usage and how those technologies intersect with consumer privacy. The hearing explored three ways to monitor consumer usage on broadband… Continue Reading
IMF World Economic Outlook – Crisis and Recovery, April 2009
“In the most severe recession since World War II, the global economy is projected to shrink by 1.3 percent in 2009, with a slow recovery expected to take hold next year, according to the IMFs April 2009 World Economic Outlook (WEO). While the rate of contraction should moderate from the second quarter of 2009 onward,… Continue Reading
GPO Launches Federal Digital System (FDsys)
Public Printer of the United States: “I am pleased to announce the launch of FDsys, GPO’s new Federal Digital System, an innovative tool to enable Americans and people worldwide to search and access the documents of the U.S. government. FDsys is an one-stop site on which to find current, authentic, published information from all three… Continue Reading
