The University of Michigan is scanning its 7.5 million books and putting their contents online.
This month, they passed the million mark. The commemorative web page provides information about the digitisation project:
a PDF showing the steps involved in digitising a book
presentation slides explaining the size and shape of the digitisation project
photos of the library staff who [...]
The Webometrics.info project uses four metrics to calculate a ranking of the online research profile of the world’s universities:
Size: Number of pages recovered from four search engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
Visibility: Total number of unique inbound links external links, based on results from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
Rich files: Number of PDF, [...]
A study by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) concludes that “research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance [...]
The Western New Year is a scant six weeks old, Chinese New Year has only just started, and already the University community has been treated to two Information Futures Forum lectures by international guest speakers.
Missed the forums? No worries — you can ‘attend’ online instead. Videos of both the forums are now available on the [...]
If you follow all the links, this post will take up about 30 minutes of your life. If you’re interested in the broad field of scholarly information, or if your focus is on user experience or customer service, I think you’ll find it an entertaining and thought-provoking half-hour.
Anthropologist Michael Wesch made a splash in the [...]