Official Google Blog: “An excellent guide often best brings an art gallery or museums collections to life. Starting this week, were hoping to bring this experience online with Art Talks, a series of Hangouts on Air on our Google Art Project Google+ page. Each month, curators, museum directors, historians and educators from some of the… Continue Reading
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EFF Surveillance Self Defense – Secure Deletion
“Secure deletion involves the use of special software to ensure that when you delete a file, there really is no way to get it back again. When you “delete” a file for instance, by putting the file in your computer’s trash folder and emptying the trash you may think you’ve deleted that file.… Continue Reading
Recent college graduates in the U.S. labor force: data from the Current Population Survey
Monthly Labor Review Online, Thomas Luke Spreen, February 2013, Vol. 136, No. 2: “Data collected each October in the School Enrollment Supplement to the Current Population Survey provide an annual snapshot of the demographic characteristics, labor force activity, and school enrollment status of each year’s cohort of recent college graduates Every year, thousands of recent… Continue Reading
Average Food Prices: a snapshot of how much has changed over a century
Jonathan Church and Ken Stewart: “In January 1913, when the U.S. Department of Labor was formed, the buffalo nickel would soon replace the Liberty Head nickel, women were protesting for the right to vote, and a family could buy a pound of potatoes for less than two cents. Fast forward 100 years to January 2013,… Continue Reading
Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland, An OCLC Research Report “The top challenges for archives and special collections in the UK and Ireland are outreach, born-digital materials and space. Alignment of special collections with institutional missions and priorities is an ongoing challenge. The special collections sector is undergoing a… Continue Reading
Article – Twitter as a reporting tool for breaking news
“This study focuses on journalists Paul Lewis (The Guardian) and Ravi Somaiya (The New York Times), the most frequently mentioned national and international journalists on Twitter during the 2011 UK summer riots. Both actively tweeted throughout the four-day riot period and this article highlights how they used Twitter as a reporting tool. It discusses a… Continue Reading
Report – Strengthening America's Commitment to Passenger Rail
A New Alignment: Strengthening America’s Commitment to Passenger Rail, by Robert Puentes, Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane “American passenger rail is in the midst of a renaissance. Ridership on Amtrak the primary U.S. carrier is now at record levels and growing fast. This research shows that the countrys 100 largest metropolitan areas are… Continue Reading
Health Status, Health Insurance and Medical Services Utilization: 2001-2011
“A table package that highlights the relationship between the use of medical services (such as visits to doctors and nights spent in the hospital), health status, health insurance coverage and other demographic and economic characteristics. The statistics come from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.” Continue Reading
Availability and Price of Petroleum and Petroleum Products Produced in Countries Other Than Iran
News release and Full Report with data: “The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that global liquid fuels1 consumption outpaced production in January and February 2013, resulting in a 1.3-million-barrel-per-day (bbl/d) average draw in global oil stocks. Crude oil prices moved higher during this period, rising above the trading range they had been in for… Continue Reading
Report – More than One in Six Americans Report Inability to Afford Enough Food
News release: “Millions of Americans continued in 2012 to struggle to afford enough food, according to new, up-to-date food hardship data from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). More than one in six Americans (18.2 percent) said in 2012 that there had been times over the past 12 months that they didnt have enough… Continue Reading
New York Federal Reserve – Financial Stability Monitoring
Financial Stability Monitoring, February 2013, Number 601. Authors: Tobias Adrian, Daniel Covitz, and Nellie J. Liang “While the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) broadens the regulatory reach to reduce systemic risks to the U.S. financial system, it does not address some important risks that could migrate to or emanate from entities outside the federal safety net. At… Continue Reading
American Lawyer – Women Partner Watch 2013: Gaining Ground
Women Partner Watch 2013: Gaining Ground: The interactive chart …represents The American Lawyer’s latest attempt at answering a simple question: How many women make partner at the nation’s largest law firms these days? We took our initial stab at answering the question last year. First, Aric Press, editor in chief of American Lawyer parent ALM,… Continue Reading
