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Japan: English Language Interface to National Diet Library’s Current Awareness Portal Now Available From the National Diet Library: Since its launch in 2006, Current Awareness Portal (CA) has aggregated wide variety of news on libraries around the world as well as library and information science. The Portal has published these news in Japanese as a quarterly journal (CA), email magazines (CA-E), a

Japan: “National Diet Library Embraces Digitization and On-line Reading” The following article about digitization at the National Diet Library in Japan is part of a feature titled “Checking Out Libraries”  published by GLOBE, an English-language publication from Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. The article also includes info about digitization efforts at the National Library of Korea. From the Article: The

Video: An Introduction to the “Digitize this Book” Service From Duke University Libraries Back in February we posted about the introduction of the Digitize this Book service that Duke U. Libraries had just began to offer Duke students, faculty, and staff. In a Nutshell: Starting this semester, Duke University faculty, students, and staff can request to have certain public domain books scanned on d

From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Today W3C launched a new Digital Publishing Activity to make the Web a platform for the digital publishing industry, and to build the necessary bridges between the developers of the Open Web Platform and the publishing industry. Today’s eBook readers and tablets for electronic books, magazines, journals and educational resources use W3C technologies such a

Bibliographic Management: Thomson Reuters Launches Free Online Version of EndNote It appears the bibliographic management wars are heating up. As you know, a couple of weeks ago Elsevier acquired Mendeley. Today, news from Thomson Reuters about a New EndNote Tool: EndNote Basic includes storage for two gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styl

Cool! Harvard Library Lab Releases 20 Project Overview Videos Online Here’s some very interesting viewing for library/database/information retrieval types (geeks). 20 new videos about different Harvard Library Lab projects and programs including Library Cloud and the Awesome Box project that we mentioned the other day. You’ll not only learn about the projects but you’ll also meet some of the peopl

Japan: “National Library Joins Digital Wave, Will Offer Books Online” From The Asahi Shimbun: Japan’s largest library will begin offering online access to selected books on Feb. 1, starting with 13 works that include some of the country’s most famous epics and folk tales and a novel written by one of its most acclaimed novelists. The National Diet Library is trying out its new online delivery syst

From a Japan Times Editorial: That Japanese public libraries are thriving may come as no surprise to anyone, but an education ministry report found that the number of books checked out by elementary school children from the 3,274 public libraries nationwide reached an average of 26 per child in fiscal 2010. That is up from 18.8 in 2007, a significant and commendable upswing to the highest level ev

An Introduction to Linked Data for Libraries: Take a Look at a New Video from OCLC Research Released yesterday by OCLC Research. Kudos on making it available and the overall presentation. Useful! A short introduction to the concepts and technology behind linked data, how it works, and some benefits it brings to libraries. About Gary Price Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consu