Via LLRX.com: Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials – Hays Butler and Emily Feltren document the process and successful implementation of dynamic, extensive project conducted over the past three years by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) working with law librarian volunteers around the country to build the first-ever National Inventory of Legal Materials, an inventory of print and electronic legal materials at all levels of government. More than 350 volunteers have added nearly 8,000 legal titles to the inventory so far.”
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Daily Archives: January 13, 2013
New on LLRX – FOIA Facts – What Ive Learned
Via LLRX: FOIA Facts – What Ive Learned – Scott A. Hodes’ New Year’s commentary is both an overview and a roadmap to the FOIA process. Scott’s experience has taught him that requesters do not realize that their biggest obstacle to having their requests processed in a timely manner is not usually FOIA offices. The… Continue Reading
Report – Confronting Costs: Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System
“Health spending as a share of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) has climbed steadily over the past half-century. Today, it constitutes 18 percent of GDP, up from 14 percent in 2000 and 5 percent in 1960, and we are well on our way to 21 percent by 2023, based on current projections. This increased dedication… Continue Reading
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
“Although the United States spends more on health care than any other nation, a growing body of research shows that Americans are in poorer health and live shorter lives than people in many other high-income countries. U.S. Health in International Perspective synthesizes available research, taking an in-depth look at this disadvantage in health and lifespan.… Continue Reading
Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs
Internet Archives Blog: “Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements. Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago. Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total… Continue Reading
Report on NYC Public Libraries – Branches of Opportunity
Branches of Opportunity, January 2013, Center for an Urban Future – “As more and more New Yorkers turn to digital books, Wikipedia and other online tools for information and entertainment, there is a growing sense that the age of the public library is over. But, in reality, New York Citys public libraries are more essential… Continue Reading
White House – National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding
“This National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding (Strategy) aims to strike the proper balance between sharing information with those who need it to keep our country safe and safeguarding it from those who would do us harm. While these two prioritiessharing and safeguardingare often seen as mutually exclusive, in reality they are mutually reinforcing.… Continue Reading
Digital Licenses Replace Print Prices as Accurate Reflection of Real Journal Costs
Digital Licenses Replace Print Prices as Accurate Reflection of Real Journal Costs by Paula Gantz, Association of American Publishers – Scholarly Publishing Division, Volume 11, No. 3, Summer/Fall 2012 “Instead of purchasing subscriptions to individual journals, librarians are pursuing licensing agreements that provide perpetual digital access to a body of content. For major institutions with… Continue Reading
EU – Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
News release: “The Commission has launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a 40 billion boost to the EU’s economy each year. Europes public administrations are sitting on a goldmine of unrealised economic potential: the large volumes of information collected by numerous public authorities and services. Member States such as… Continue Reading
Privacy on the Go – Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem
Privacy on the Go – Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem, Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, California Department of Justice. January 2013 “Today, 85 percent of American adults own a cell phone and over half of them use their phones to access the Internet. The mobile app marketplace is also booming with more than 1,600 new… Continue Reading
