Data on Demand is a collection of data sets put together by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  It contains data for a variety of topics, such as campaign fundraising, home foreclosures, popular baby names, and school instructional hours.

This is a great ready-reference list for libraries in Wisconsin… it would be even greater to compile a database of available database sets like these across the country (or even around the world)!

from ResourceShelf

Big news from the Google Book Search Library Project today:

The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today’s addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC is a national consortium of 12 research universities, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

There are a lot of libraries in that list, and having lived in Northern Illinois for most of my life, I am familiar with many of them (and in fact am planning to visit another one, Ohio State University, within the next couple of weeks to look at a hard-to-find book).

thanks to Ryan Eby for an e-mail post to Web4Lib

Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project.

This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles!

from Search Engine Watch

The University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Library and Information Studies is hosting a conference titled “Back in Circulation Again (Again)” on September 8-9, 2006.

from Jean