GREENR

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. A one-stop site, this resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in highly accessible, visually appealing research areas, covering relevant categories including energy systems, health care, food, climate change, population, economic development. Researchers view content in a way that resembles the open web, allowing them to browse to find answers as well as entering search terms.

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)

Search, browse and display the full text back issues of the Chicago Defender. The Chicago Defender was one of the leading and most influential newspapers of the African American community, with about two thirds of its readership outside the Windy City. With an estimated readership of about 500,000, the newspaper was a major voice in African American history.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th Century

Search, browse and display the full text of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th Century. These Sessional Papers (sometimes referred to as “blue books”) provide information on matters of policy and administration and were “ordered by the House to be printed.” They include three categories: Bills – drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages. If the Bill passes through these stages, it will become an Act of Parliament. House Papers – documents resulting from the work of the House and its Committees. Command Papers – Government papers (from Ministers) conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to the attention of the House, presented by Command of Her Majesty.

2/15/10 SCF lecture – Promise and perils of electronic theses and dissertations…

4:30-6 pm, Posner Center, Carnegie Mellon University + live webcast. Shawn Martin, University of Pennsylvania – abstract/bio – video forthcoming

Full title: Promise and perils of electronic theses and dissertations: expanding the reach of graduate work online

SCF = Scholarly Communications Forum

This talk kicks off the new Scholarly Communications Forum at Carnegie Mellon, a lecture series that replaces and builds on the Authors Rights and Wrongs series (2007-2009). Lecture is co-sponsored by the Digital Libraries & Cyberscholarship Colloquium.

2/3/10 DLCC lecture – How to read 15 million books in one sitting…

4-5 pm, 1305 Newell Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University. Bill Schilit, Google Research – abstract/bio

Full title: How to read 15 million books in one sitting (or mining a hypertext of quotations and ideas from very large digital libraries)

DLCC = Digital Libraries & Cyberscholarship Colloquium Series

Andrew Carnegie Collection online!

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh have created a joint digital archive of Andrew Carnegie materials on the Web at http://diva.library.cmu.edu/carnegie/. Integrating five physical collections in one searchable full text resource, the site demonstrates a larger vision, which is to facilitate and host a digital repository of Andrew Carnegie materials held by institutions worldwide. The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Collection online was funded by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants from 2007 to 2009. “The Andrew Carnegie Collection not only includes interesting and plentiful source materials but represents a great opportunity to make a whole that truly is more than the sum of its parts,” said Gabrielle V. Michalek, head of the Archives and Digital Library Initiatives Department at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. … more

ICUDL 2009

ICUDL 2009 “Global Collaboration for a Global Digital Library” marks the fifth in a series of International Conferences on the Universal Digital Library (UDL). The vision of the UDL is to create a global knowledge resource to preserve digitally and to provide free access to all human knowledge. This vision has been broadened from “books” to include other knowledge formats, such as multi-media and monuments. Conference videos:

• Part 1 “Always On” – Mark Donner, Google
• Part 2 “Effect of students and Faculty/Researchers on Digital Libraries” – Susan Gibbons, University of Rochester
• Part 3 “The Google Book Settlement” – Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon
• Part 4 “Visible Legacies for Y3K” – Les Earnest, Stanford University
• Part 5 “Machine Translation for Digital Library Content” – Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon
• Part 6 PANEL: Dr. Xianxiong Ge, Fudan University; Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon; Steven Rosenberg, Carnegie Mellon West; Chris Tomer, University of Pittsburgh

Testing & Education Reference Center

The University Libraries now provide access to Testing & Education Reference Center, a new database offering resources for standardized test preparation and education and career research.

Peterson’s, well known for their test preparation materials and university and career search tools, has partnered with Gale publisher to create a dynamic new database to guide students in their academic and professional development. 

Testing & Education Reference Center offers a wide array of resources indispensable to undergraduate and graduate students whether they are applying to a graduate level program or locating and interviewing for potential employment opportunities. more

1/15/10 DLCC lecture – DiLiA: Interactive Exploration of Digital Libraries for Information Discovery

Dr. Kai-Florian Richter, research scholar/visiting faculty from Bremen University (University of Pittsburgh)  – abstract/bio

DLCC = Digital Libraries & Cyberscholarship Colloquium Series

St. Clair profiled in “Thinkers” …

Gloriana St. Clair was profiled in Mark Roth’s “Thinkers” column
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09341/1019030-298.stm (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 12/07/09).