via LLRX.com – OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-‘Hunger Games’ connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder: David H. Rothman’s current commentary on the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America highlights successful components of the project and prospective concepts that would support attaining the goal of a national digital library system.
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Daily Archives: August 12, 2012
How Bank Competition Affects Firms' Access to Finance
Love, Inessa and Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad, How Bank Competition Affects Firms’Access to Finance (August 1, 2012). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6163. Available at SSRN “Combining multi-year, firm-level surveys with country-level panel data for 53 countries, the authors explore the impact of bank competition on firms’ access to finance. They find that… Continue Reading
Deloitte – Tidying up: What reorganization can do for federal agencies
“Driven by budgetary constraints, federal government managers are considering reorganization at the agency or program level according to a new study by the Government Business Council (GBC) and Deloitte. But, while more than half (51 percent) attribute reorganization to limited financial resources, a mere 29 percent say their agency is equipped to manage the human… Continue Reading
Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development
Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development: “The amount of data in the world is exploding – large portion of this comes from the interactions over mobile devices being used by people in the developing world – people whose needs and habits have been poorly understood until now. Researchers and policymakers are beginning… Continue Reading
The Problem of Data – Council on Library and Information Resources
The Problem of Data, Lori Jahnke and Andrew Asher, Spencer D. C. Keralis with an introduction by Charles Henry. August 2012. CLIR Pubublication No. 154. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of dataso much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. IBM, Bringing… Continue Reading
The European Debt Crisis and the Dollar Funding Gap
The European Debt Crisis and the Dollar Funding Gap – Jason Miu, Asani Sarkar, and Alexander Tepper “Against the backdrop of the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, the difficulties faced by European banks in borrowing U.S. dollars have attracted increased attention. The inability to borrow dollars has been partially responsible for European banks decisions to… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Reports State Pension Systems Assets Rise Nearly $325 Billion in 2011
News release: “The nations state-administered defined benefit retirement systems totaled $2.5 trillion in cash and investment holdings in 2011, a 14.6 percent increase from $2.2 trillion in 2010, according to new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. Earnings on investments were $410.6 billion, up from $291.1 billion in 2010. (See Table 1.) These statistics come… Continue Reading
CNNmoney – How much will that college really cost?
How much will that college really cost? -(“includes tuition, fees, room and board and books; excludes grants or scholarships”) Continue Reading
