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From The Canadian Press: A recent dust-up between Wikipedia and Canada’s largest university raises questions about how collaborative the popular website that bills itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” truly is. The online information portal recently took a professor from the University of Toronto to task for one of his classroom assignments. [...]
Update: Read What Goodreads CEO, Otis Chandler has to say about the Amazon acquisition. From the Blog Post: It’s important to be clear that Goodreads and the awesome team behind it are not going away. Goodreads will continue to be the wonderful community that we all cherish. We plan to continue offering you everything that [...]
A library branch in Park Slope, Brooklyn, boasts a fleet of iPads, but some local parents aren’t all that enthused. For his three-year-old, parent Josh Skaller says, “there’s an immense opportunity to discover new things to read, and anything that’s pulling her away from that gets in the way of the purpose of the trip to the library.”
Students at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School will participate in a 3-D scanning of Mission Santa Ines, part of the “El Camino Real” project to scan all of California’s 21 Spanish missions, four presidios and three pueblos over the next two to three years.
Note: At the bottom of this post, after today’s DPLA news, make sure to look at a brief overview of the Smithsonian Collections Database. This searchable and browsable resource comes direct from the SI and is available today (free). From the DPLA Announcement: The Smithsonian Institution will join with the Digital Public Library of America [...]
From The Washington Post: Saving for an American Girl doll might take months or even a year. But now there’s a way for local kids to bring one home without paying the $110 price tag. Beginning this month, anyone with an Arlington County library card can sign up to borrow one of eight dolls for [...]
