Principles for financial market infrastructure: disclosure framework and assessment methodology, December 2012 “The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a disclosure framework and assessment methodology for their Principles for financial market infrastructures (PFMIs), the new international standards for financial market infrastructures: the disclosure framework… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2012
GunPolicy.org provides evidence-based, public health-oriented information on armed violence around the globe
“The international bulletin of firearm injury prevention since 1997, Gun Policy News provides daily global and regional bulletins of small arms policy, armed violence prevention and gun control news published in mass media. GunPolicy.org is hosted by the Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney. The School provides internationally recognised leadership in public… Continue Reading
Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature
Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature. Stephanie J. Schulte, Assistant Professor and Education and Reference Services Coordinator, Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 4 Oct. 2012 “Objectives The purpose of this review is to examine the development of embedded librarianship, its multiple meanings, and activities… Continue Reading
European Banking Union: Key issues and challenges Report
European Banking Union: Key issues and challenges Report, December 12, 2012. Published by the Authority of the House of Lords, 7th Report of Session 201213. “A European banking union is urgently required in order to restore credibility and stability to the euro area banking system, and to break the vicious cycle between banks and sovereign… Continue Reading
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds “is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Councils series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previous editions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends and potential discontinuities. We distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will likely occur… Continue Reading
Local Insights Digital Report – Local Search and Advertising Review
“The YPSM Local Insights Digital Report focuses on uncovering trends across the rapidly evolving local advertising ecosystem. This Insights Report is based on internal data from more than 2.2 billion searches and 39 billion impressions from a full year across the YPSM Local Ad Networks 300+ online and mobile publishers…Across the YPSM apps, our marquee… Continue Reading
Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012
CRS – Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012 “Ninety-four women currently serve in the 112th Congress: 77 in the House (53 Democrats and 24 Republicans) and 17 in the Senate (12 Democrats and 5 Republicans). Ninety-two women were initially sworn in to the 112th Congress, two women Democratic House Members have since resigned, and… Continue Reading
FTC and Google Settlement Reporting in the Works
POLITICO: “Federal regulators may end a two-year antitrust probe of Googles search business by letting the company make voluntary changes, such as limiting use of restaurant and travel reviews from other websites and letting search ad campaigns be easily ported to rival search services, two sources with knowledge of the case told POLITICO. The FTC… Continue Reading
CRS – U.S. Farm Income
U.S. Farm Income, Randy Schnepf, Specialist in Agricultural Policy. December 10, 2012 “According to USDAs Economic Research Service (ERS), national net farm incomea key indicator of U.S. farm well-beingis forecast at $114 billion in 2012, down 3.3% from last years record, but still the second-highest total on record. In addition to near-record farm income, farm… Continue Reading
FindLaw – Data Stored on Cell Phones Not Protected, Fed. Court Rules
FindLaw – “Data stored on personal cell phones is not protected by the Stored Communications Act (SCA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled. As mobile technology changes rapidly, legal questions remain about the extent of digital privacy protection. The Fifth Circuit determined that the act does not protect information stored… Continue Reading
Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog
Dempsey is OCLC Vice President and Chief Strategist: “This article discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions for libraries. There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and catalog data. Yet it comes at a time when the catalog itself is being reconfigured in… Continue Reading
Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation and Infographic from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey
“The U.S. Census Bureau released additional tables from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation. The Census Bureau has produced this tabulation about the labor force after every census since the 1970s. However, for the first time, this tabulation uses estimates from American Community Survey data, collected over a five-year period. Todays tables… Continue Reading
