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Monday, 17th October 2005

More Use RSS Than Have Heard Of It

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RSS
Source: ClickZ Stats: Traffic Patterns
More Use RSS Than Have Heard Of It
"The number of tech-savvy Internet users who knowingly sign up for RSS syndicated content is only four percent, while another 12 percent are somewhat aware of the term RSS. Twenty-seven percent of adult Internet users access RSS feeds through personalized start pages, though they don't know that's what they're doing on personalized portal pages."
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Congressional Research Service
Source: ALA
CRS to Cut 59 Positions; No Librarians Affected
"The Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service has announced that it plans to eliminate 59 of its 694 positions by September 30, 2006. The layoffs are the first in the 91-year history of the agency, which provides research and analysis for members of Congress."
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Public Libraries--New York
Source: Buffalo News
Top librarian upset by area's bleak situation
"New York's top librarian said Erie County's library crisis is the worst she has ever seen and urged local library officials to press state leaders for more help. Concerned over library cuts and closings, Janet M. Welch, the state librarian and assistant commissioner for libraries, came to Buffalo last week to get a better sense of the problems facing the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System and offer her assistance."
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Digital Libraries
Source: D-Lib
The October Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online
Articles include:
+ The CREE Project: Investigating User Requirements for Searching within Institutional Environments
+ Using Machine Learning to Support Quality Judgments
+ Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog
+ Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository
+ Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
+ Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors
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Rare Books
Source: Nashua Telegraph
Librarian Discovers Some Rare Items
"The Rhode Island Historical Society has come across a rare, and lucky, find: a document written by the state's founder, Roger Williams. The first edition of the 1644 writings, 'The Bloudy Tenent,' were found by a librarian in August, but only recently verified as authentic."

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