The November/December 2009 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available
Before we post a selection of what in the new issue of D-LIB, ResourceShelf would like to thank Bonita Wilson for editing a great publication. She has been the sole editor of D-LIB since July, 2001. This is her last issue as editor. She'll now have more time to engage in the "other things" she likes doing at her home on the Chesapeake Bay in VA. She'll continue with CNRI in a part time capacity.
+ Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections
by Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center
+ Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations
by Daniel R. Rehak, LSAL; and Nick Nicholas and Nigel Ward, Link Affiliates, Australia
+ From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation Planning at the Bavarian State Library Using a Collection of Digitized 16th Century Printings
by Hannes Kulovits and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology; and Anna Kugler, Markus Brantl, Tobias Beinert, Astrid Schoger, Bavarian State Library
+ Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility
by Samson C. Soong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
+ The Importance of Digital Libraries in Joint Educational Programmes: A Case Study of a Master of Science Programme Involving Organizations in Ghana and the Netherlands
by Marga Koelen, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation; and Jonathan Arthur Quaye-Ballard, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
The Practice and Perception of Web Archiving in Academic Libraries and Archives
by Lisa Gregory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania Literary Journal: Google Websites as an Easy Publication Route
by Anna Faktorovich, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
