• Ebook Sanity

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:15:10
    Treating the digital like the physical is insanity of the highest order. Jason said: publishers that restrict content in an attempt to control it in the same way as they can control a print book are fighting a losing battle.  - What are we protecting? - A misfit between models - Beyond the First Sale principle [Source: By Jason Griffey [...]

  • National Library of China shares collections through OCLC

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:07:39
    The National Library of China will share its rich collections with libraries and researchers around the world as a new participant in the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing service. Since November 2009, 2.4 million records from the National Library of China have been added to WorldCat, the world’s largest online resource for finding library materials. With those records [...]

  • Libraries, Ebooks, and Competition

    Updated: 2010-09-02 03:24:27
    People keep writing articles about how valuable libraries are, even with ebooks and the Internet and all. Well, doh. Of course libraries are important. What people are overlooking is that the reason libraries are having such fits dealing with a changing environment is not that libraries are unrecognized as fountains of value, it’s that libraries [...]

  • World’s largest oceanography library goes digital

    Updated: 2010-09-02 03:16:00
    Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world’s largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publically accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries.  Visit the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library here. addthis_url = [...]

  • 牙科新聞

    Updated: 2010-09-02 02:24:18
    16– 31 August 2010 香港   1.  牙仔長「青苔」刷牙刷不掉 1-2歲  [明報] 2010-08-29 D04 Happy Pa Ma 姚嘉榕 2.  滿口細菌 攜手攻牙  [明報] 2010-08-24 D06 健康 何慧凝 3.  牙病與重疾  [大公報] 2010-08-22 C07 新園地 醫學與養生 思健 4.  細菌依附致牙周病  [成報] 2010-08-20 A12 醫健 醫者健談 5.  洗牙  [都市日報] 2010-08-19 P22 健康 健康口腔 6.  博愛廉價牙科服務長者  [星島日報] 2010-08-19 A12 港聞 7.  早晚牙刷刷  [成報] 2010-08-16 F03 副刊 健康寶庫 陳珮誼 8.  點穴：迎香穴消鼻塞牙痛  [蘋果日報] 2010-08-16 E14 KnowBody    [Source: Wisenews] addthis_url = [...]

  • E-Texts for All (Even Lucy)

    Updated: 2010-09-01 03:16:01
    A colleague’s perspective helps guest columnist Char Booth see the difficulties librarians face in building their ebook collections.  - Ebooks and DRM - Dollars = leverage - Usability is accessibility - Educating ourselves [Source: By Char Booth, E-Learning Librarian, University of California, Berkeley Aug 5, 2010, Library Journal] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D6496'; addthis_title = 'E-Texts+for+All+%28Even+Lucy%29'; [...]

  • Ebooks and the Retailization of Research

    Updated: 2010-09-01 02:56:51
    When it comes to research, we need a commons, not a common market. - What we stand to lose - Supply-side scholarship - Ebooks designed for scholarship [Source: By Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Jul 22, 2010, Library Journal] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D6493'; addthis_title = 'Ebooks+and+the+Retailization+of+Research'; addthis_pub = [...]

  • Revealing the invisible heritage of Panjab

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:45:08
    A searchable collection of millions of rare pages on Sikhs and the Panjab has been published online. The Panjab Digital Library (PDL) includes texts of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and is available to anyone with internet access here. This launch was made possible in part by the Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research [...]

  • More than a million Asian books going online

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:31:20
    The JoongAng Daily quoting the 12 May issue of Asahi Shimbun has reported that Korea, Japan and China will launch an online library with content from their national libraries. Users will be able to read books in each language, search text, and reportedly read content in their mother tongues courtesy of an automatic translation system. Currently, the [...]

  • The Happy Planet Index

    Updated: 2010-08-31 05:41:00
    In this TED talk, Nic Marks of the new economics foundation asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people.

  • Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice

    Updated: 2010-08-25 21:51:55
    This is an abstract of a paper by Nitesh Tripathi and Shefali Bhattarya both from the University of Florida published in the Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries. Experience has shown that development efforts that ignore indigenous knowledge (IK), localsystems of knowledge, and the local environment generally fail to achieve their desired objectives. IK systems are [...]

  • Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security

    Updated: 2010-08-24 22:28:00
    The Department of Defense can play an important role in supporting innovation and commercialization of clean, low-carbon energy, thereby directly contributing to America's future economic competitiveness and bolstering national security.

  • A Different Way of Knowing: Tools and Strategies for Managing Indigenous Knowledge

    Updated: 2010-08-24 22:07:03
    This  abstract of a paper by Amanda Stevens, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada discusses the necessary roles that librariaes and information professionals can play in the management and preservation of indigenous knowledge . There is a growing need to preserve indigenous knowledge, as indigenous communities around the world face ongoing threats to [...]

  • Responding to Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

    Updated: 2010-08-24 21:06:00
    Harvard researchers present qualitative analysis of three options for mitigating the risk of climate mega-catastrophes: drastic abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, geo-engineering, and large-scale advance adaptation.

  • A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport: Financing the Vision ASAP

    Updated: 2010-08-24 19:17:00
    By investing in sustainable low-carbon transport systems today, developing countries will reap various economic, social, and environmental benefits during the next half century and beyond.

  • Application of ICTs in Nigerian Secondary Schools

    Updated: 2010-08-23 20:47:43
    Here is an abstract of an article available for download on the University of Nebraska, Lincoln digital commons. This paper examines ICT applications in Nigerian secondary schools. It reveals that ICTs should be adopted in Nigerian schools to improve the educational system and help the students receive a solid education, enabling them to live successfully. Though [...]

  • Slum Tourism

    Updated: 2010-08-11 21:24:40
    The New York Times has an interesting op-Ed contribution from Kennedy Odede a Kenyan student at Wesleyan University titled Slum Tourism. He comments insightfully on the practice of foreign tourists visiting slums in developing countries such as Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya and Mumbai in India, these visits are mostly an intrusion in the lives of the people who live [...]

  • The United Nations Millenium Development Goals Report 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-06 20:11:04
    In a forward to the 2010 Millenium Development Goals Report Ban Ki-Moon the United Nations General Secretary wrote: The Goals represent human needs and basic rights that every individual around the world should be able to enjoy—freedom from extreme poverty and hunger; quality education, productive and decent employment, good health and shelter; the right of [...]

  • Introduction to Kente Weaving in Ghana (YouTube)

    Updated: 2010-08-06 18:17:14
    This video provides brief  instructions on Kente weaving in Ghana. Kente is the traditional cloth of Ghana, woven predominantly in the Ashanti and Volta regions of Ghana. Traditionally it is strip-woven exclusively for royalty and worn to reflect prestige and wealth, usually for ceremonial and festive occasions. Each cloth has a specific name based on the pattern [...]

  • Is oil always a curse in Africa? Maybe not in Ghana

    Updated: 2010-08-06 18:01:00
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Friday August 6, 2010 Is oil always a curse in Africa Maybe not in Ghana By Don Cayo 6 Aug 2010 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Paul Collier Ghana resource wealth Resources don't have to be a curse , as a country like Canada can attest , but in much of the world they almost always . are Indeed , nbsp British economist Paul Collier , author of The Bottom Billion : Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it , identifies having resources especially high value , easily transportable ones , is one of the four poverty traps that keeps subSaharan Africa so . poor But , as I found when I visited diamond-rich Botswana a few months ago , this doesn't have to be the case . Click here for my previously

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