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NTIA Unveils Program to Help States Map Internet Infrastructure

NTIA Unveils Program to Help States Map Internet Infrastructure (PDF; 21 KB) The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced details of a grant program to fund collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide bro...

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Library of Congress Providing Access to LC Authority Files (Best of ResourceShelf)

First posted in 2002. The Library of Congress, Free Web Access to the LC Authority Files At the beginning of July the Library of Congress began providing FREE “trial” public access to the LC Authority File via the LC Authorities site. For the cataloging community access to these file...

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They Said What? Social Security to Monitor Social Media Sites

From the Article: Social Security Administration (SSA) officials plan to hire a contractor to monitor what the public is saying about their agency on social media Web sites such as MySpace, Twitter and YouTube, according to a contract request from SSA. The agency wants to monitor a type of infor...

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ResourceShelf — 21 hours ago

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Google’s Book Deal Now Officially Being Investigated By Justice Dept

From the Article: While Google agreed to share the revenues with the publishers and authors, libraries, some consumer rights groups and other parties are worried that Google would have solitary and overwhelming control over access to “orphan books”—titles whose authors and right...

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Deciding What Information Is Fair to Use

Reid Goldsborough writes: One of the catchphrases on the internet is “Information wants to be free.” This creates the impression that anything you come across online is free for the using. Not quite. The same laws that protect intellectual property elsewhere can get you in trouble for...

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Webcast — 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database

Webcast — 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database d...

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