DEDICATED TO PIONEERS INCLUDING:
S. R. Ranganathan, P. N. Kaula, R. N. Sharma, J. F. Harvey, D. J. Foskett, J. P. Danton, M. M. Jackson, etc.
This Blogosphere has a slant towards India [a.k.a Indica, Indo, South-Asian, Oriental, Bharat, Hindustan, Asian-Indian (not American Indian)].
Sunday, December 28, 2008
EU's new digital library operational again
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's first large-scale digital library, Europeana (www.europeana.eu), was online again Tuesday, a month after it crashed after being overwhelmed by readers' interest.
"Europeana works again ... after we have quadrupled server capacity," European Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr told a daily news briefing. continue reading
Please wait, you are in queue, Your Click is Important to Us: "We launched the Europeana.eu site on 20 November and huge use - 10 million hits an hour - meant it slowed to a crawl. We are doing our best to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version."
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- No bottom yet? No problem! Wall Street needs another bull, is already secretly blowing a newer, bigger bubble. How do we know? Simple. They're bubble-blowers by nature. It's locked in their DNA, controls their brain waves. It's the divine spark that guides their destiny and America's too. .... continue reading
International and Comparative Librarianship ************
Just released:
Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 1: An international perspective, Ed. by Ravindra Sharma / IFLA Headquarters, 2011 | Hardcover | RRP Euro [D] 99.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 150.00. *
ISBN 978-3-11-027056-3
IFLA's International and Comparative Librarianship Communitas
ICL Communitas Launched:
A Web Resource for Teaching and Learning International and Comparative Librarianship Through International Collaboration. For further information, please contact Clara M. Chu cmchu@uncg.edu, SET Member and ICL Coordinator. Continue reading