All 50 finalists from across the U.S.were in New York last week, where they participated in an exhibition of their artwork at the New York Public Library (until July 19). Four national finalists will each receive a $5,000 college scholarship:
New ActionScript 3 Library For The API - Google Analytics Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
French National Library to Open Archives to Microsoft Bing - PCWorld Calling it the unfolding of a new era of social search, Bing this week revealed big changes to their search results. Here's a roundup of this week's other columns and news stories...
Microsoft Partners With Cornell University Library For Live Book Search I'm sure it will pop up soon.As opposed to Ask’s Smart Answers (featured last week) which freely links to 3rd party informational databases, Microsoft relies heavily on its...
Google's blogging (and here) about how it is supporting the 25th anniversary of the American Library Association's Banned Book Week by posting information about novels that have been challenged or banned from being in libraries within the...
Nickelodeon – A vast library of shows from the number-one entertainment brand for kids including “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Zoey 101,” “The Fairly OddParents,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” and many more.
A new exhibit looking at the last 100 years of UK newspapers is now open at the British Library in London. Another week has passed which means it's time for a look at a few new or updated specialty search tools that they have posted about on...
Library Journal has an interview with Gary Price, of Ask.com and formerly the News Editor of Search Engine Watch. Using Search Engines For Test Taking - The School Library Journal has an article named "Cheating via Google?
New Mashup Combines Public Library Location Info with Google and Yahoo Maps - If you live in the US or Canada you no longer can say you don't know where public libraries in your area or any area for that matter are located.
Starz also has a deal with Real Networks (Starz Ticket) that offers a rotating library (about 40 titles/week) of movies for downloading and offline viewing at $12.95/month. CinemaNow also offers a library for downloading to the Windows Mobile...
Ticket) that offers a rotating library (about 40 titles/week) of movies for downloading and offline viewing at $12.95/month. CinemaNow also offers a library for downloading to the Windows Mobile Portable
I would like to encourage you to take a look (if you haven't already) at my post about "other" question answering services that discusses what libraries of all types offer "virtually" in terms of question answering without having to visit the...
RLG, a highly respected organization in the library world with more than 150 research libraries as members, has announced a partnership with LookSmart. national libraries and renowned universities? SearchDay published an article I wrote last week...
I do my best to explain the basic differences between Google Print for Publishers and Google Library in this post. Copyright and Google Library Project Today, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, spoke at the Association of National Advertisers Annual...
Online Debate Over Google Scanning Project Underway - The Friday Project's Google Debate program has begun, which will have various solicited parties offering up opinions on the Google Print program's library scanning project.
China: National Library opens digital portal. Information Week May 26 2005 9:33PM GMT Search Engine Strategies London opens tomorrow, and we have attendees and exhibitors at the conference from all over the world.
The move, said the president of France's national library, is to prevent "the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world. The VNUnet.com article: Sun unveils all-knowing music library, has...
Hey, this week is National Library Week. What Levy gets wrong is that books and other objects are also assigned what Library of Congress Subject Headings. Another classification scheme called Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is used in many...
Google book plan sparks French war of words from Reuters notes that the head of France's national library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is concerned with Google's plan to digitize library books. Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national...
In our article about Google's library digitization project last week and this SEW Blog post, we noted another large library digitization project from the Internet Archive. Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the...
