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Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting (Association of Research Libraries)

The complete list of papers/presentations available can be found here. The meeting took place October October 14–15, 2009 in Washington, DC. Here are the titles of a few papers/presentations we want to take a look at: + Source: ARL Hat Tips: OATP and Peter Scott ...

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Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition

Its been a week since Settlement 2.0 was released. We have a comprehensive press review along with many related documents from the past week here. Until the next major event and our next press review, we will continue to post Settlement 2.0 news and analysis with a focus on stories, analysis, an...

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Bing Posts “Behind Bing” Tour

Take a multimedia tour of 14 features that Bing offers up. Each tour stop includes a video overview, some “behind the feature” comments (feel free to skip), and direct links to that specific feature. A useful way to get up to speed on some of the features that are unique to Bing. Yes,...

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P2P Comes to the Aid of Audiovisual Search

From the Article: Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new ‘query by example’ methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such d...

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Library of Congress Updates their Flickr Photochrom Collection

From an e-Mail Announcement: The “Photochrom Travel View” set in Flickr now features more than 750 prints, including scenes in Canada, Wales, Belgium, and (most recently) The Netherlands photographed at the turn of the twentieth century. The Belgian scenes, in particular, feature peop...

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Crossing the digital divide to Grandma’s house

Crossing the digital divide to Grandma’s house How do you get to grandma’s house in the digital age? It’s like asking five New Yorkers how to get to Brooklyn: Everyone’s got a different answer and no one’s necessarily wrong. Say you live in St. Petersburg and grandm...

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