Not only does the library of congress have a blog they also started a flickr partnerships to share “more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections [...] on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.”
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Archive for January, 2008
Image collections of Library of Congress on Flickr
Posted in news on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OECD overhauled its statistical service
Posted in resources on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Peter Suber reports that OECD improved access to their statistical databases:
“The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has overhauled its statistical service, making it easier to locate relevant statistics in the OECD’s databases.
OECD.Stat, now available in beta, enables users to search all 50 of the OECD’s statistical databases at the same time.”
The original announcement [...]
Article about the Virtual Library
Posted in about, news on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ron Davies an expert in information systems wrote a review of the CGIAR Virtual Library, which was published in The Electronic Library.
His main Conclusion is that the project was overall a success, and that there are good reasons for creating specialized library portals that pool different resources on specific subjects together in one place alongside [...]
