News release: “Yale Law School Professor Emeritus and Librarian Emeritus Morris L. Cohen, who directed two of the worlds most esteemed academic law libraries, passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010, at his home in New Haven. He was 83. Cohen was one of the towering figures of late 20th century law libraries and among the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
White House – Overview of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review
Overview of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review – Overall Assessment: “The core goal of the U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan and Pakistan theater remains to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al-Qaida in the region and to prevent its return to either country. Specific components of our strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan are working well… Continue Reading
A Half-Empty Government Can't Govern: Why Everyone Wants to Fix the Appointments Process, Why It Never Happens, and How We Can Get It Done
A Half-Empty Government Can’t Govern: Why Everyone Wants to Fix the Appointments Process, Why It Never Happens, and How We Can Get It Done. William A. Galston and E.J. Dionne, Jr., The Brookings Institution, December 14, 2010. “Abuses of the confirmation process, far from strengthening the executives accountability to the legislative branch, instead call forth… Continue Reading
Broadband satisfaction: What consumers report about their broadband Internet provider
Broadband satisfaction: What consumers report about their broadband Internet provider, FCC Working Paper, December 2010: “Most Internet users have a very good understanding of the information on their bills regarding how to contact customer service or the price they pay. However, when asked about the clarity of information on their bill about speed, restrictions on… Continue Reading
Higher Education, Lower Admittance Rates
News release and related charts: “For the first time, Harvard topped over 30,000 applicants for the Fall 2010 admission season. Despite a down economy, students are swallowing the bitterly high tuition fees and applying at record highs this year, leading schools to accept fewer applicants. Heres a closer look at why admittance rates are down… Continue Reading
Facilitating Access to Copyright Works for Visually Impaired Persons
Stakeholders’ Platform Launches Project to Facilitate Access by VIPs to Published Works: “An unprecedented initiative to facilitate access to published works by the visually impaired and the print disabled was announced on October 23, 2010, in New Delhi, India at the 5th meeting of WIPOs Stakeholders Platform. The Platform approved the launch on November 1,… Continue Reading
What Is the Price of College? Total, Net, and Out-of-Pocket Prices in 2007-08
What Is the Price of College? Total, Net, and Out-of-Pocket Prices in 200708, Christina Chang Wei, MPR Associates, Inc. and Tracy Hunt-White, National Center for Education Statistics “Included in this report are the average prices paid by undergraduates attending one of the four major types of institutions: public 2-year, public 4-year, private nonprofit 4-year, and… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for Tutorials
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… Continue Reading
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
