LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for Tutorials: Nicole C. Engard continues her series on best practices for libraries to leverage open source tools with a guide on publishing tutorials for using library resources. Rather than creating a printed pathfinder, she suggests creating a video tutorial instead, as the learning experience is often more engaging and has deeper impact when users see something done versus reading about it.
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Daily Archives: December 19, 2010
Law.gov announces 2 yr plan to release opinions of appellate and supreme courts of 50 states and federal government
News release: “Public.Resource.Org will begin providing in 2011 a weekly release of the Report of Current Opinions (RECOP). The Report will initially consist of HTML of all slip and final opinions of the appellate and supreme courts of the 50 states and the federal government. The feed will be available for reuse without restriction under… Continue Reading
Tests find cancer-causing chemical in 89 percent of cities sampled
News release: “Millions of Americans are drinking water contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical that came to national attention in the 2000 feature film Erin Brockovich. Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) found hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, in the drinking water of 31 of 35 selected U.S. cities. Among those with the highest levels… Continue Reading
WSJ: Unique Phone ID Numbers Explained
WSJ: “More than half the smartphone apps tested by The Wall Street Journal sent a serial-number-like identifier for the phone to tracking companies. Some tracking companies use these IDs to create profiles of cellphone users for marketing purposes. The use of these identifiers poses a greater risk than tracking technologies typically used on PC Web… Continue Reading
More Than 100 New Species Described by California Academy of Sciences in 2010
News release: “Global biodiversity surveys over the past few years have provided increasing evidence that our planet is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction. Plants, animals, and microorganisms are disappearing thousands of times more rapidly than they have for more than 65 million years, and for the first time in Earth’s history, human… Continue Reading
BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, November 2010: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in November. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate increases, 15 states registered rate decreases, and 14 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twenty-eight states and the District… Continue Reading
ForeignAssistance.gov – U.S. Government foreign assistance investments now accessible in user friendly formats
“The Foreign Assistance Dashboard provides a view of U.S. Government foreign assistance funds and enables users to examine, research, and track aid investments in a standard and easy-to-understand format. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard was initiated by the Department of State and USAID under the policy guidance of the National Security Staff. Future iterations of the… Continue Reading
New Report Finds Marriage Trouble in Middle America
News release: “Drawing on the latest national data, a new report concludes that marriage is in trouble among so-called “Middle Americans,” defined as the 58 percent of adults who have a high school diploma and possibly some post-secondary education, but no four-year college degree. The 2010 edition of the State of Our Unions report was… Continue Reading
Misinformation and the 2010 Election A Study of the US Electorate
Misinformation and the 2010 Election – A Study of the US Electorate, December 10, 2010, by Clay Ramsay, Steven Kull, Evan Lewis, of WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO), an international collaborative project, managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, with the aim of giving voice to public opinion around the world on… Continue Reading
