Tagged: websites

Accessibility to Library Databases and Other Online Library Resources for People with Disabilities

Accessibility to Library Databases and Other Online Library Resources for People with Disabilities

Are your library’s databases accessible to people with disabilities?  Do they comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines?  How about your other licensed resources, such as ejournals, ebooks, and metasearch engines?  Catalogs, chat software, wikis and other web 2.0 applications?  There is a...

Announcing “Academia.edu” to the University Library Community

Announcing “Academia.edu” to the University Library Community

Dr. Richard Price recently finished his Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he’s just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: – It shows academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental...

“Voting America” visualizes the history of US presidential elections

“Voting America” visualizes the history of US presidential elections

The Voting America project from the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab is interesting because it helps to visualize and analyze historical election data back to 1840. http://americanpast.richmond.edu/voting/ Thanks to Amy Ciccone for sharing this!