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Posts Tagged ‘project’

Report Suggests Students Don’t Need Many Library Services at Crunch Time

27 Jan

There is an interesting report from Project Information Literacy (based at Washington University Information School) called How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crunch Time. Here is the abstract: Abstract: The paper presents findings from 560 interviews…

 

Checking Out Exotic Scraps and Marvellous Rarities on The Public Domain Review

20 Aug

A project of the Open Knowledge Foundation made possible by funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation, The Public Domain Reivew “aspires to become a bounteous gateway into the whopping plenitude that is the public domain, helping our readers to explore this…

 

Something New in the Academic Law Journal Genre: UDC-DCSL’s Illustrated Law Journal

29 Jul

The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law has launched the Illustrated Law Journal (ILJ) project “to use web technology and Free Culture licenses to generate meaningful visual illustrations of laws and legal concepts… .”…

 

Legal Project Management Books for Lawyers (and Private Sector Law Librarians and Members of the Legal Academy, Too)

21 Jun

Slaw’s Ted Tjaden writes that there are relatively few substantive books on project management geared specifically to lawyers. In his recent Slaw post, he recommends two recent works because they complement each other. Levy’s Legal Project Management – Control Costs,…

 

The Internet Archive Now Wants to Preserve Physical Information

08 Jun

The Internet Archive has decided that physical books need to be preserved as much as digital information. Jared Keller writes about the project in the Atlantic. Brewster Kahle is quoted on the practice of the Archive’s digitization project, where once…