+ 40+ Terabytes of New Aerial Imagery from MS Virtual Earth: The Complete List
Includes lot of new bird’s eye imagery.
+ The Man Who Guards Clinton’s Wikipedia Entry (via /.)
+ Preview of new Windows Search adds cross-PC indexing (via BetaNews)
+ OCLC releases EZproxy 5.0 authentication and access software

+ Obama Briefly Mentions Google in 60 Minutes Interview
Sen. Barak Obama tells Steve Kroft on the topic of his experience:
Well, you know, there are a lot of companies that have been around longer than Google, but Google’s performing.
++ See Also: Obama spoke at Google in November. Here’s the transcript and video (via Google Blogoscoped)
++ See […]

The New York Public Library Acquires Papers of American Historian and Kennedy Presidential Advisor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Arthur Schlesinger papers consist of almost 300 linear feet of correspondence, journals, manuscripts of his writings, research files, phone logs, sound recordings, videos, date books, and clippings and will be housed in the Library’s Manuscripts and Archives […]

National Archives Supports IG Audit of Presidential Libraries’ Artifacts
In a statement issued on Thursday, November 8, 2007, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein said:
“I welcome the Inspector General’s recommendations included in the ‘Audit of the Process of Safeguarding and Accounting for Presidential Library Artifacts’. This audit which was completed on October 26, 2007, examined […]

New Webcast Available from MIT: Marketing the Arts: The Secret Weapon
Presentation by Michael Kaiser, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Recorded on June 9, 2007, Running Time: 52 Minutes.
Kaiser’s talk focuses on marketing, the kind that “creates excitement around an organization.” In his efforts to restore flagging dance, theater and opera groups, Kaiser […]

Posted 10 September 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ Global Currency Hedging (Harvard Business School Working Papers)
+ Clinton and Giuliani Seen as Not Highly Religious; Romney’s Religion Raises Concerns (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
+ Media Policy and Free Speech: The First Amendment at War With Itself (Social […]

Campaign Finance 2008: The New College Try
by Luke Rosiak
Nearly four years after academia donated almost $30 million to unseat George W. Bush and Republicans, college professors and others in the education field have contributed more money to federal politics than the oil industry and drugmakers, with a nearly unanimous goal of putting a […]

Nixon Library to Become Part of the National Archives Presidential Library System and to Release Formerly Withheld Nixon Special Political Documents and Tapes

The legal transfer on July 11, 2007, of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation to the National Archives. The new Richard Nixon Presidential Library and […]

Yahoo Releases oneSearch for Mobile and Another Look at Ask.com Mobile
Yahoo has released their new “oneSearch” service for Yahoo Mobile. It’s discussed in this Reuters article and can be seen on any web browser by going to http://us.m.yahoo.com/. Yahoo will release the oneSearch feature on other country/regional Yahoo sites moving forward.
Previously (screen cap), the […]

Donations to ever-more-costly presidential libraries must be disclosed

Common Cause Vice President for Advocacy Celia Wexler testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to urge support for a proposal to require disclosure on contributions made to presidential libraries.
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“Our campaign finance laws, particularly the ban on soft money, are supposed to sever the […]

Lincoln Resumes Position as Americans’ Top-Rated President

Since noted historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. declared Abraham Lincoln to be the country’s best president in his 1948 poll of 55 historians, similar polls of scholars have consistently placed Lincoln among the top three presidents in U.S. history.
The American public agrees. In each of seven surveys Gallup has […]

Resources of the Week: State of the Union Address
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
By the time you read the next “edition” of Resource of the Week, this year’s State of the Union address will already have come and gone. President Bush will address Congress and the nation on Tuesday, January 23. We offer […]

Before we begin, please note that this is far from a comprehensive list. It’s just a beginning. Many large web archiving projects (in many languages) are coming online all of the time. Plus, others already exist that we did mention in this first go around. In other words, more to come.
European Archive Foundation Launches Free […]

No surprise. We knew Live Search was about to go live (no pun) with recent updates and even blog posts announcing a bunch of new changes.
This AP story has more.
Among other changes, Live Search will include improved ways to refine a search engine query so a user can better differentiate whether they are searching, for, […]

Search Briefs
Earlier this week we began beta testing LookAhead technology on DocuTicker. This new feature offers direct links to actual posts (as opposed to just search results) as you enter letters into the search book. Much more about our new beta, LookAhead technology (including an overview Gary wrote about LookAhead last September) here.
Today, Yahoo introduces […]