British Library ready to shelve digital data

A repository that already safeguards Leonardo DaVinci’s notebook and copies of the Magna Carta is delving into unchartered archival territory.

The British Library soon will archive e-mails and other unpublished works that have been produced by influential scientists in electronic form, and therefore require special treatment.

“You cannot put digital material on the shelf and expect it to last for 100 years as with a paper manuscript,” said Jeremy John, above, the library’s curator of digital manuscripts.

John plans to make such manuscripts available for public research, possibly by next year.

Charity

Chiropractic business conducts food drive

The Chiropractic Experience in Lawrence is having a Thanksgiving Canned Food Drive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at the clinic, 2449 Iowa, Suite R.

The collections will be donated to the Salvation Army.

Individuals or families who want to have their spine evaluated can do so for a donation of 20 canned food items. Existing practice members who donate five or more cans will be entered into a drawing for prizes.

Motley Fool

Name that company

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Survey

Salespeople selling sales time short

Are you in sales? Do you spending most of your time actually selling, or do you find that you’re mostly doing administrative tasks?

Apparently, plenty of sales folks are spending only a fraction of their work time — 10 percent — selling, according to an annual survey of sales force effectiveness. Most of their work days are consumed by paperwork, travel and problem solving, according to Proudfoot Consulting, a management consulting firm based in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

“When you think about how critical sales performance is to a company’s top line, it is shocking how little time sales reps spend on what they were hired to do — sell,” said Luiz Carvalho, Proudfoot’s chief executive.