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The article details the efforts of the online resource known as the Internet Archive to preserve Internet news web sites as well as digitizing and archiving physical newspaper collections from around the world.

The article focuses on a selection of internet resources related to poetry, covering topics such as online collections, educational platforms, and poetry analysis tools. Topics include the diverse range of resources available for poets, educators, and enthusiasts to explore and engage with poetry in the digital age.

The article focuses on providing a comprehensive list of online resources for various areas within the study of religion. It discusses that these resources encompass topics like methods and theories, religion and the social sciences, theology/philosophy of religion, religion & culture and specific religious traditions. The provided websites and databases cater to both scholarship and pedagogy; and offering valuable insights and materials for those interested in the field.

The paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study which was conducted with a view to determining the effect of an intervention in the form of the application of teacher-designed Internet-based resources (i.e., websites, podcasts, movie clips) that students could use autonomously on the development of pronunciation of the English regular past tense -ed ending. The sample consisted of 45 Polish secondary school learners. Participants were divided into three groups, two treatment and one control. The intervention spanned two weeks. The lessons in treatment group 1 were conducted by means of online resources and those in treatment group 2 were carried out in a traditional way (i.e., without autonomous recourse to computer-assisted pronunciation teaching). The students in the control group did not receive any instruction related to the pronunciation feature in question over that time. The data were gathered by means of perception and production tests administered before (pretest) and after (immediate and delayed posttests) the treatment, and subjected to quantitative analysis. The results, supported by the participants' evaluation of the two types of pedagogic intervention, indicate that although the effects of the experimental treatments proved to be comparable, the use of online resources produced more durable gains and was more favorably evaluated by learners. This provides a rationale for using computer technology as a tool for enhancing traditional teaching of English pronunciation in secondary school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LibGuides is a popular web platform to thematically curate and promote information sources. While guides bridge curricular and research objectives to library collections, there is little discussion about Indigenizing content and design as a decolonization strategy. The study identified and evaluated 357 guides for Indigenous Studies (IS) created by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Data compiled from Springshare’s LibGuides Community and ARL member webpages was analyzed for Indigenous representation, content, and user experience (UX) against a rubric of Indigenous critical pedagogical practices and protocols. The findings reveal variety in vocabulary terms to describe Indigenous peoples and subjects, organization, and topics and foci, as well as a lack of interdisciplinarity. The discussion highlights opportunities for libraries to reimagine guides as Indigenized and decolonized information sources that validate Indigenous ways of knowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's experience of teaching piano to students with dyslexia which can help teachers how to provide the best instruction for such students. Most teachers research information on their own to create the most effective teaching methods. She mentions that the task is becoming easier due to available online materials and internet resources, and she wishes to teach the piano student with dyslexia to show her that she has more patience now.

The article offers information that the websites featured in this column are free online tools that can help facilitate different aspects of collaboration whereas some focus on communicating with teammates in a structured, organized, and searchable way. It also discusses that the Public Services Quarterly Internet Resources Column is designed to be a clearinghouse for free, online websites.

The article reports on the move by The Missouri Bar to publish links of all decisions by the Supreme Court of Missouri and the Missouri Court of Appeals online on a weekly basis.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of using an online educational resource that presents research-informed strategies for women's pleasure, OMGyes.com, as a resource to empower women to broaden the ways in which they understand, advocate for, and enjoy sexual pleasure. A cohort of 870 adult women was given access to OMGyes.com and asked to explore the resource over a four-week period and complete online pre/post questionnaires. Participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the relatability, usefulness, and functionality of OMGyes.com. We observed statistically significant, large effect size increases in participants' knowledge about their own pleasure preferences, their confidence and positivity about that knowledge, as well as how pleasurable their sexual experiences were during both masturbation and partner sex. Many participants reported that after using OMGyes.com they felt more motivated to explore their preferences and more confident to explain their preferences to their partners. Our data suggest that OMGyes.com may be useful for positively impacting how women think about sexual pleasure, how they understand their own specific preferences, how they advocate for what they enjoy with partners, and how they actually experience pleasure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on updates in the activities of the Utah State Bar's Access to Justice (ATJ) Office, particularly its launching of the Utah pro bono opportunity portal in cooperation with Paladin to advance equity in the legal system and expand access to justice. Also cited is how the portal can help legal professionals, law students, and retired lawyers who want to serve their communities.

In this work, we describe the capabilities of Magnonic Holographic Memory (MHM) for parallel database search and prime factorization. MHM is a type of holographic device, which utilizes spin waves for data transfer and processing. Its operation is based on the correlation between the phases and the amplitudes of the input spin waves and the output inductive voltage. The input of MHM is provided by the phased array of spin wave generating elements allowing the producing of phase patterns of an arbitrary form. The latter makes it possible to code logic states into the phases of propagating waves and exploit wave superposition for parallel data processing. We present the results of numerical modeling illustrating parallel database search and prime factorization. The results of numerical simulations on the database search are in agreement with the available experimental data. The use of classical wave interference may results in a significant speedup over the conventional digital logic circuits in special task data processing (e.g., √n in database search). Potentially, magnonic holographic devices can be implemented as complementary logic units to digital processors. Physical limitations and technological constrains of the spin wave approach are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspective of economic demand theory, this study examines the factors that determine daily changes in Twitter following of Major League Baseball teams as a form of derived demand for a sport product. Specifically, a linear regression model is constructed by taking consideration of factors relevant to fan interest: team performance, market characteristics, scheduling, and so on. The results reveal specific determinants that have significant relationship with Twitter following. From a team management perspective, factors such as the content of social media messages, certain calendar events, and postseason appearances can be used to enhance fan interest on social media. In so doing, it brings together communication inquiries and economic literature by delineating a comprehensive and nuanced account of interpreting sport social media from a consumer demand perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Article Discusses Modern Innovative Technologies of Mass Media such as an Electronic Library, Online Testing Project Methodology, The Use of New Information Technologies, Internet Resources Help to Implement a Student-Centered Approach in Teaching a Foreign Language For Self-Taught. In English Lessons With The Help of Innovative Technologies, it is Possible to Solve a Number of Didactic Tasks: to Form Reading Skills and Abilities Using the Materials of the Global Network; Improve the Writing Skills of Students; Replenish Students' Vocabulary; to Form Students' Motivation to Learn English on their own, to Broaden the Horizons of Students, to Establish and Maintain Business Connections and Contacts With Their Colleagues in English-Speaking Countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining remarkable attention in both academic and industrial worlds. The main goal of the IoT is laying on describing everyday objects with different capabilities in an interconnected fashion to the Internet to share resources and to carry out the assigned tasks. Most of the IoT objects are heterogeneous in terms of the amount of energy, processing ability, memory storage, etc. However, one of the most important challenges facing the IoT networks is the energy-efficient task allocation. An efficient task allocation protocol in the IoT network should ensure the fair and efficient distribution of resources for all objects to collaborate dynamically with limited energy. The canonical definition for network lifetime in the IoT is to increase the period of cooperation between objects to carry out all the assigned tasks. The main contribution in this paper is to address the problem of task allocation in the IoT as an optimization problem with a lifetime-aware model. A genetic algorithm is proposed as a task allocation protocol. For the proposed algorithm, a problem-tailored individual representation and a modified uniform crossover are designed. Further, the individual initialization and perturbation operators (crossover and mutation) are designed so as to remedy the infeasibility of any solution located or reached by the proposed genetic algorithm. The results showed reasonable performance for the proposed genetic-based task allocation protocol. Further, the results prove the necessity for designing problem-specific operators instead of adopting the canonical counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online subject guides are commonly used by libraries to provide information support to students. LibGuides (a cloud-based commercial product launched in 2007) represents one of the latest incarnations of the traditional subject guide or portal, and are widely used across American academic libraries. In Ireland however, library subject guides of entirely local design and hosted on a local web server still dominate. This paper outlines the project management process involved in implementing a LibGuides pilot at University College Dublin Library, including the planning, design and implementation of a new range of subject-related guides. The pilot nature of the project necessitated a strong focus on evaluation, particularly in assessing the effectiveness and suitability of LibGuides as a platform for delivering information literacy support, both from an administrative and end-user perspective. A two-stranded approach was used in this review process, incorporating quantitative web statistics and analytics alongside qualitative feedback from students, academic staff and Library staff. Feedback that was gathered suggested that the LibGuides subject guides were generally viewed very positively by both staff and students. Notwithstanding this, awareness (as indicated through usage statistics) remained moderate during the pilot, pointing to the importance of the visibility, positioning and promotion of guides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Virtual reunification is the strategy of reassembling physically dispersed heritage collections to produce a consolidated, digitized representation of scattered artifacts, literary and artistic works, and/or archival records of a single origin or common provenance. Scholars of digitization predict that interest in virtual reunification projects will continue to grow among heritage institutions, particularly in cases where dispersed collections present geographic, material, and political challenges that can more easily be overcome in the digital realm. This article highlights key characteristics of virtual reunification efforts taken from existing reunification projects and available literature on the topic, and it also offers ways to frame and approach virtual reunification. While available literature on virtual reunification focuses on specific project details and technical considerations, this article presents models that help to understand organizational and management challenges that virtual reunification planning may face. It concludes by identifying areas for further research in this emerging digital practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the future of the WPA Listserv (WPA-L) remains uncertain, this article reflects on the ways the WPA-L has functioned as an important site of disciplinary knowledge-making and emotion work for the field of composition studies. It examines the potential of the listserv format for democratizing participation in the enterprise of disciplinary knowledge-making and examines how perspectives and lifeworlds of a diverse field have come into contact on the platform. Such a dynamic showcases tensions, ongoing dialogue, and emotionally felt perspectives not often visible in (or sometimes erased from) traditional sites of scholarly publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several online resources from China and Japan, including online resources for methods and theories in the study of religion, online resources for the psychology of religion, and online resources for science and religion.

The article reviews several web sites for social science learning and inquiry-based projects, including the Neolithical Mystery Tour which explores a 5,000 year old Stone Age community on the islands off the coast of Scotland, the Cruel Reality which takes users on a tour of the German concentration camp Plaszow in Krakow, Poland, and The Great Game and Afghanistan.

Rigorous research into the historical past of Web technology-driven innovation becomes timely as technological growth and forecasting are attracting popular interest. Drawing on economic and management literature relating to the typical trends of technological innovation, we examine the long-term development of Web technology in a theoretically informed and empirical manner. An original longitudinal dataset of 20,493 Web-related US patents is used to trace the growth curve of Web technology between the years of 1990 through 2013. We find that the accumulation of corporate Web inventions followed an S-shaped curve which shifted to linear growth after year 2004. This transition is unusual in relation to the traditional S-curve model of technological development that typically approaches a limit. The point of inflection on the S-curve coincided reasonably closely with the timing of the dot-com crash in year 2000. Moreover, we find a complex bi-directional relationship between patenting rates in Web technology and movements in the NASDAQ composite stock index. The implications of these results are discussed in theoretical and practical terms for sustained technological growth. Specific recommendations for different stakeholders in commercial Web development are included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our goal in this article is to understand the historical sequences as well as consequences of the internet on the development of the academic field of communication. As a field that has one foot in the study of a most basic and necessary human activity, and another foot in the study of innovative technology, has scholarship in the field of communication followed internet developments? Is there a lag between technological developments and communication research focused on those developments? We attempt to answer our questions by searching for keywords (such as computer, internet, CMC, etc.) in content from communication journals from 1970 to 2000. We find that a large number of keywords were entirely absent, and many of the occurrences involved the same small number of terms, indicative of a relatively narrow and/or shallow amount of interest in these phenomena. The dominance of terms like 'computer' and 'internet' (and, eventually, 'Web') indicate a generalist tone at work in these articles. There is relatively little breadth in the vocabulary related to computers and the internet, suggesting that the field of communication that was seemingly trying to digest the entire (constructed) category of behavior associated with computers and the internet in one gigantic linguistic bite rather than focusing on activities taking place via this new medium. There was not yet a sense of meaningful differentiation in what internet-based communication could involve; 'internet' communication was simply communication occurring by means of an internet-based delivery system; a new medium, figuratively and literally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1997, the recently appointed French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin took a firm stance in favor of the Internet and announced an ambitious program to develop information technology and networks. In a country characterized by the lingering presence of the Minitel and bureaucratic reluctance to Internet solutions, this allocution, referred as the Hourtin speech, has been acknowledged as a turning-point in French internet policies. However, little is known about the dynamics that made such a statement possible. Based on interviews and personal archive of key actors, this paper offers to investigate the administrative and political processes that enabled such a change of position at the highest level of the State. While the role played by civil servants or government officials in promoting the development of the Internet in France has often been overlooked in internet histories, we offer new insight on the political work and administrative mobilizations that contributed to the diffusion of internet solutions and more broadly, to the advent of a digital revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Video-Streaming ist weltweit auf dem Vormarsch. Die Covid-19-Pandemie wirkt wie ein Katalysator der bereits seit längerem virulenten Entwicklung hin zum Online-Zugang zu Filmen. Der Beitrag bietet eine erste Bestandsaufnahme wesentlicher Trends des Filmmarkts und untersucht die Auswirkungen auf die Bestandsentwicklung im Bereich audiovisuelle Medien für Öffentliche und wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken im deutschsprachigen Bereich mit Schwerpunkt Deutschland und der Schweiz. Wie wirken sich die umwälzenden Veränderungen des Marktes auf die Arbeitsfelder in Bibliotheken konkret aus und mit welchen Strategien können die Bibliotheken auf die Herausforderungen reagieren? Diskutiert werden Perspektiven wie Konsortienbildung, domänenübergreifende Kooperation mit anderen Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen zur Vernetzung von Daten und Inhalten, gemeinsame Lobbyarbeit für verbesserte rechtliche Regelungen sowie Vereinbarungen mit den Verwertungsgesellschaften. Video streaming is on the rise worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic acts like a catalyst in the rapid development towards online access to films. The article outlines key trends in the film market and examines the effects on collection development of audiovisual media for public and academic libraries in German-speaking countries, with a focus on Germany and Switzerland. How do the disruptive changes in the market impact work in libraries and what strategies can libraries pursue to react to the challenges? Perspectives such as the formation of consortia, cross-domain cooperation with other cultural heritage institutions in the field of linking data and content as well as lobbying for improved legal regulations and agreements with collecting societies are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public and research libraries have long provided resources in electronic formats, and the tension between providing electronic resources and patron privacy is widely recognized. But assessing trade-offs between privacy and access to electronic resources remains difficult. One reason is a conceptual problem regarding intellectual freedom. Traditionally, the LIS literature has plausibly understood privacy as a facet of intellectual freedom. However, while certain types of electronic resource use may diminish patron privacy, thereby diminishing intellectual freedom, the opportunities created by such resources also appear liberty enhancing. Adjudicating between privacy loss and enhanced opportunities on intellectual freedom grounds must therefore provide an account of intellectual freedom capable of addressing both privacy and opportunity. I will argue that intellectual freedom is a form of positive freedom, where a person's freedom is a function of the quality of her agency. Using this view as the lodestar, I articulate several principles for assessing adoption of electronic resources and privacy protections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]