Eight publishers, including Lonely Planet, Insight Guides, Random House and Pan Macmillan are named on a new 'Dirty List' released by the Burma Campaign UK this week. The 100-strong list 'exposes companies that are directly or indirectly helping to finance Burma's brutal military dictatorship'

EDUCAUSE Review - September/October 2004 - Volume 39, Number 5 - now available. Subtitled New Tools for Back-to-School: Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games

Registration is now open for the Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2004 - November 8-9, 2004 - Cincinnati, Ohio

Emerald's Journals of the Week for August 31 are Assembly Automation and British Food Journal

LAMA 2004 National Institute - Creating Library Leaders for the 21st Century: What It Takes to Take the Lead - November 18-20, 2004 - Palm Springs, California

Sirsi Corporation has announced that it and eBook-provider BWI have completed the industry’s first seamless integration of eBooks with an integrated library system, Sirsi’s Unicorn Library Management System and online public access catalog solutions. The result is that now for the first time, library users can search for and download BWI’s eBooks directly through Sirsi’s iBistro, iLink, or Web2 OPACs, just as they search for and retrieve information about on-shelf materials

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 120 - September 2004 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available

First Diversity Group Conference Diversity - Dare to Win! - 4 October 2004 at the University of Wolverhampton Science Park, UK. Programme now available

KM Europe 2004 - 8-10 November - Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Library of Congress has announced the final release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, available on the American Memory Web site. The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher

INFOmatch, the recruitment consultancy operated by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, has become a registered signatory authorised to countersign criminal record checks on job seekers via the Criminal Records Bureau

ALAhead to 2010 - strategic planning process on future directions for the American Library Association

Thirty-First Annual Report and Accounts 2003-2004 from The British Library is now available

The Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Collections and Technical Services in Academic and Research Libraries, a citation and $1000 sponsored by Thomson Scientific, seeks to foster advances in collections or technical services by providing fellowships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields. Research projects in the compilation of bibliographies are ineligible for this award. Submission deadline is December 3, 2004

The judging panel for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has announced the longlist of books for this year

The Doping Journal is an independent open access peer-review non-profit scholarly serial on doping science

Registration for Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords is now open. This year the conference is being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia from October 13-16, 2004. Registration is limited to 200 people

The Library + information Show 2005 will be held April 20-21 at NEC, Birmingham, UK

JournalCentral is a directory of free and open access medical journals on the Internet. The directory features free full text access journals and also hosts a separate list of journals available free for professionals from developing countries

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Heavenly Bodies. Answers here:

1. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
2. Halley's Comet appears how often: every 56, 66 or 76 years?
3. What is the largest planet in the solar system?
4. What is the nearest planet to the earth?
5. Which galaxy does the sun belong to?
6. When the moon passes between the sun and the earth, is this called a "solar eclipse" or a "lunar eclipse"?
7. Which planet was discovered in 1930 by US astronomer Clyde Wilhelm Tombaugh?
8. Which of the nine major planets is closest to the sun?
9. The phrase "morning star" is normally applied to which planet?
10. Titan is the largest satellite of which planet?

Eye-to-Eye - An e-newsletter dedicated to connecting Ingenta and its library communities - Issue 13 now available

David Ruddy of Cornell University Library has announced that DPubS now has its own website

Copyright for corporate information professionals. This one day introductory course will provide a basic grounding in the key issues relating to copyright for information services in the corporate sector. It will provide a potted overview of copyright basics, the current law and its application in the commercial sector - Speaker: Paul Pedley - 5 October, 2004 - London, UK

Information Automation Limited has announced that the 2004 bibliography of writings about e-books has been updated with several new references

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Vol. 31, No. 6 - August/September 2004 now available

ERPANET has announced the launch of its re-designed website. Fully dynamic, the new site reflects user feedback and will make ERPANET's many resources easier to locate and use. There is also an RSS feed

Cornell University Library is developing an open source publication management system that will provide authors and publishers with a more affordable way to publish scholarly research on the Web. In making its DPubS software available to libraries, university presses, and other independent publishers, Cornell will expand opportunities for creative communication among scholars around the world

CSIRO PUBLISHING has begun to rollout enhanced journal article content in HTML. The improved HTML delivery includes internal linking in the paper to references, tables and figures; navigation tools to move within the paper; figures available in two viewing sizes; comprehensive external reference linking. See this example

SCONUL Newsletter has changed its name to SCONUL Focus with Number 31, Spring 2004

Nominations for the 2004 CILIP Jason Farradane Award, sponsored by Kompass, are now invited. The CILIP Jason Farradane Award, supported by UKOLUG and ICLG and sponsored by Kompass, is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information field

LLRX.com August 22, 2004 update is now online

Free Pint Newsletter 166 - 26 August 2004 - now available

Endeavor Information Systems has announced the availability of the second issue of Endeavor Explorer, the newsletter focused on Endeavor's systems, services, customers and leaders

Museums and the Web 2005 - the international conference for culture and heritage on-line - April 13-16, 2005 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Call for papers now available

The schedule of track sessions and workshops is now available at the conference web site for the 2004 HighEdWebDev Conference October 10-13 in Rochester, NY

ERPANET has announced a workshop on the preservation of born digital art. This one-day event, co-sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 8 October 2004

infoLIST Small Systems Fair - An exhibition solely for suppliers and prospective buyers of Small Library Management Systems - 21 October 2004 - Royal Over Seas League, Park Place, London, UK

The Turing Digital Archive contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge

Denmark's Aarhus Public Libraries and the China Evergreen Rural Library Service Center have been honored with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2004 Access to Learning Award. The award celebrates their innovative efforts to provide no-cost access to information technology in their very different communities

The Aslib website gets a face-lift

Cambridge University Press has announced that it is the new publisher for the Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, which is published on behalf of the Canadian Political Science Association/Association canadienne de science politique and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

The Public Library Association is now planning the 2006 PLA National Conference, which will be held in Boston, March 21-25, 2006. The most important part of that planning is assembling the slate of preconferences and the 100+ concurrent program sessions that will be presented during the conference. The deadline for submitting all proposals is November 30, 2004

Elsevier has launched an online demonstration of Scopus, its bibliographic database, due for release later this year

Metadata Leadership by Roy Tennant is now available from Library Journal

The third beta of IngentaConnect has been launched and now includes browsing by subject categories, personal registration, reference linking and forward citation linking, and Fax/Ariel content

The 5th Annual Conference of the LTSN Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences aims to bring together academics from the computing and library and information science disciplines interested in sharing good practice and integrating innovative techniques to enhance the quality of their learning, teaching and assessment - 31 August-2 September, 2004 - University of Ulster

libcoop: Pakistan Library Cooperation Group for librarians, library directors, and information professionals engaged in Pakistani Libraries who need to share information and common concerns about Library Administration, Library Management, Staffing, Library Cooperation...

KIMNET (formerly the Aslib IRM Network) is a community of interest involving professionals from a wide range of disciplines in a common quest to learn more about the effective management of knowledge and information

New Ways of Listening to Library Users: Tools for Measuring Service Quality - October 1-2, 2004 - Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Held for two weeks each November in schools and libraries across the north east of England, The Northern Children's Book Festival is Europe's largest free children's book festival. 42 of the UK's finest children's writers, poets, illustrators and storytellers are taking part this year. This year's Festival takes place November 8-20

Emerald's Journals of the Week for August 23 are Industrial Robot and Structural Survey

Marti Hearst, a professor at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a prototype search program designed to turn Web searches into something that approximates browsing the stacks of a library. The Flamenco search tool uses descriptions of archived items to display items grouped by criteria such as artist, period, medium, and subject

tonneten library :: syndication - Generating ideas about syndicated content (e.g. RSS, Atom) for special libraries - a blog by Drew Duckworth

The first annual report and resource accounts on the work of UK The National Archives has been published, along with the first report of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. In her foreword to the report, the Chief Executive, Sarah Tyacke, highlights The National Archives' achievements during the year in reaching new audiences, preserving digital records, bringing history alive and supporting colleagues across government

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, August 12-18, are now available

HeinOnline: The Modern Link to Legal History - August 20, 2004 update now available

Swets Information Services has announced that it has launched SwetsWise Title Bank, a customized gateway to a library's entire online and print holdings

DC-2004 - The 2004 Dublin Core Annual Conference will be held from 11-14 October 2004 at the Shanghai Library - Preliminary conference program now available

Hosted by VNU Exhibitions and Information World Review, the International Information Industry Awards offer the chance for the global information industry to recognise the achievements of information teams, information, knowledge and content management projects, vendors and individual information professionals. Closing date for nominations is 1 October 2004

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of The Olympic Games. Answers here:

1. Which city is the venue for the 2004 Olympic Games?
2. Where in Greece were the original Olympic Games held from 776BC?
3. Were the Olympic Games held during the First World War and the Second World War?
4. When the Olympic Games were revived in 1896, in which city were they held?
5. In the year 2000, which US woman tennis player won gold medals at the Olympic Games as well as at Wimbledon and the US Open Championships?
6. How often are the Winter Olympic Games held?
7. In which US city were the Olympic Games held in 1996?
8. In which year did Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party attempt to use the Olympic Games in Berlin for propaganda purposes?
9. Which US swimmer won Olympic gold medals in 1924 and 1928, and also appeared as Tarzan in films?
10. Which British athlete won the men's Triple Jump at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games?

American Library Association's Office for Diversity has extended the deadline for submissions to the September-October issue of Versed to August 30, 2004

Call for proposals and program ideas - NASIG 2005 Annual Conference - May 19-22, 2005 - Hilton Minneapolis and Towers, Minneapolis, MN

Journal of Digital Information has announced a special issue on Information Design Models and Processes - Volume 5, issue 2, August 2004

The August 2004 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

WEBLIS is an Integrated Library System based on CDS/ISIS. Available free of charge from UNESCO and ICIE

Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press has announced that it has signed an agreement for Stanford University's HighWire Press to host its entire journals collection, beginning January 2005. Through this partnership OUP and HighWire aim to develop a leading online environment in academic publishing

Cell Press has announced that access to the recent online archive of Cell, and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection, will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent archive of these journals includes content that is 12 months old or older and dating back to content from 1995. Each month as new issues are published, the old issues will be added to the freely accessible recent archive

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association, has announced its upcoming educational offerings

The University of California, San Diego Libraries and the New York University Libraries, working together with the Five Colleges Libraries, have been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development and implementation of the Archivists' Toolkit, a suite of open source software tools for processing and managing archival information

The Northeast Document Conservation Center has announced its fall series of one-day preservation workshops in association with the Bay State Historical League, the Essex National Heritage Commission, and the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System. This series is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council

NYLA Institutes are regional workshops focusing on current hot topics and offered in locations across New York State. Sponsored by NYLA's Continuing Education Committee, these topics change annually and range from staff development to technology to collection development to leadership

1837online.com is based in London, England and is part of an independently-owned business that is dedicated to providing high quality genealogical services to professional and non-professional researchers. On this site you will find the entire copy of the indexes of Birth, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002

Intelligence Tools: Data Mining, Visualization - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 27-28, 2005 - Call for Offers of Presentations - The focus of this new annual conference is best practice in the derivation of intelligence from data. The meeting highlights the implementation of sophisticated techniques and procedures for gathering, analyzing and presenting intelligence; intelligence that is a vital factor in decision-making in enterprises or in government bodies

Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. The 107th edition is now available and includes several thousand additional family articles, new to this publication. While adhering to the established format, the box set of three large volumes will also feature Knights, Scottish and Irish Chiefs and Scottish Feudal Barons

The conference programme for online information 2004 - London, UK - November 30-December 2 - is now available online

Portland Press Limited has announced that from 1 January 2005 it will publish Biology of the Cell on behalf of its joint owners: the Société Française des Microscopies and the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France

JIBS: Resource/Reading List Software: The Reality - 9 September 2004 - Said Business School at the University of Oxford. The workshop will bring together both major vendors from this growing marketplace and librarians who are implementing and utilising the systems

Brooklyn Public Library has received a grant of $516,732 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a pilot training project called PULSE (Public Urban Library Service Education) Project. The project, done in collaboration with the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science, gives students pursuing a Masters in Library Science the opportunity to experience the different career opportunities available at a major urban public library

The Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum presents Hawthorne, an exhibition of papers, rare books, artwork, and other objects relating to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Highlights from the Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group's Open Access Declaration (Draft) are now available

Logical Methods in Computer Science is intended to become an internationally leading journal in theoretical computer science. Access is free and there are no page charges for authors. The journal will be open for paper submission on September 1, 2004

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will receive a collection of some 1,000 recordings that preserve the 17-year history of performances produced by fellow Lincoln Center constituent Jazz at Lincoln Center. The recordings will be available for listening by the general public in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. The collection is being given to the Library by Jazz at Lincoln Center and preserves hundreds of the original concerts it has produced at Lincoln Center and performed on tour since its origins in 1987

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:11 (September 2004) is now available

Madeleine Lefebvre, University Librarian, Saint Mary's University, is writing a book to be published by Scarecrow Press in 2005 called The Romance of Libraries. It will include true stories of people who met and fell in love in a library setting, which could be a library, or library school, or other related locale. She wants to hear from people with a story to tell

Arts Council England, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) have announced the launch of a £120,000 national training initiative to raise awareness of children’s literature in primary and secondary schools. Through this initiative, due to begin in January 2005, professional librarians from Schools Library Services will deliver training to alert trainee teachers to the potential of libraries and the importance of enthusing children about books and writers

Emerald's Journals of the Week for August 16 are Journal of Services Marketing and Sensor Review

The current Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Federal Register (FR) are now available via science.gov, the US Federal interagency science Web portal, which provides a federated search across multiple databases from multiple agencies

The 2004 CBC Literary Awards Competition is now open. CBC Radio and Radio-Canada invite you to put your talent to the test and enter your short stories, poetry, and travel writing. The deadline is November 15, 2004

The Technical Advisory Service for Images, TASI, has announced further workshops in its 2004 training programme

Calendar of programs and events from Online Programming for All Libraries is now available

2005 Canadian Library Association Conference - Telus Convention Centre - Calgary, Alberta - June 15-18, 2005 - Invitation and Call for Proposals

Info@UK Issue 41, August 2004, is now available. Info@UK is the guide to major UK Information Society developments and news. The bulletin is compiled by the Information Management Research Institute, Northumbria University on behalf of the British Council

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of card games. Answers here:

1. What is the American name for the card game known in England as patience?
2. The game of bridge derived from which other card game?
3. In which card game do the cards represent the members of a tradesman's family?
4. Five-card draw, five-card stud and seven-card stud are popular varieties of which card game?
5. Which card game has a name which is the French for "twenty-one"?
6. Which card game uses a pack from which one card has been removed and players try to avoid holding the unpaired card at the end of the game?
7. In which card game are a player's losses paid by removing an article of clothing?
8. Which card game, resembling baccarat, has a name which is the French for "railway"?
9. Which card game is usually played by four persons and uses a pack of 32 cards, with the jack of trumps (called the right bower) ranking highest?
10. Edmond Hoyle, an authority on card games, wrote "A Short Treatise" on which card game in 1742?

Thomson Gale has added more new content to its Gale Virtual Reference Library platform now offering 155 eBooks available for collection building

Infotrieve, Inc. has announced the launch of its new federated search solution, ArticleFinder eXtreme (AFX), designed to shorten discovery cycles and deliver cost savings to special libraries by leveraging their existing resources. AFX can be integrated into Infotrieve’s Virtual Library technology platform, allowing users to simultaneously search their library’s holdings, subscription and public databases

Presentations from dg.o2004, Digital Government Online 2004 conference, are now available

The August 2, 2004 issue of Open Access Now is now available online

Presentations given at the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories, Bangalore, India, July 27-29, 2004, are now available

Free Pint Newsletter 165 - 13 August 2004 - now available

Wazzup? Info from Infopeople - a blog that replaces the "New on the Site" section of the Infopeople website. Wazzup? will not only include information about new additions to the Infopeople website, but will present general news from and about Infopeople, and will also offer library-related information that various Infopeople staff members (hereafter referred to as "Infopeeps") think might be of general interest

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, August 5-11, are now available

Swets Information Services has announced that it will make a large electronic journal selection of EDP Sciences and IOS Press available to Chinese users via a rapid broadband connection with SwetsWise Online Content

DELOS Information Day - University of Bath, UK - September 15, 2004 (in connection with ECDL 2004) - DELOS, a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, is an initiative funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme

Libraries in the age of Amazoogle: some issues and responses: the example of OpenWorldCat by Lorcan Dempsey - JISC/CNI Conference, 8/9 July 2004

As part of the new SAGE Journals Online platform, all existing URLs for SAGE journals are changing. Though SAGE will continue to provide full-text content via Ingenta for the remainder of 2004, re-directs from the existing URLs will not be possible. Therefore, you will need to update your systems and catalogues to reflect the new platform URLs

Beyond Boolean: Effective Web Reference Strategies Web-based workshop. Register at anytime to work at your own pace during 2004/2005. Registrants will receive a certificate confirming 8 hours of continuing education contact hours on completion. This workshop involves individually paced Web-based work in consultation with the teacher and other students through the Web and e-mail

ASSIGN News from Social Science Libraries and Projects - August 2004 now available

Presentations from E-Learning, Information Literacy and Library Induction - ASSIGN One Day Conference, 21 July 2004 - are now available

The 2005 Program Committee and the Committee on Education and Professional Development (CEPD) respectively invite submissions for program proposals and pre-conference program proposals for SAA's 69th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 15-21, 2005. Deadline: October 8, 2004

Ovid's Resource of the Month program allows you to "test drive" different products for free. This month's resource: Analytical Abstracts

Roughing It: Printing and the Press in the West: A Conference Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of The Bibliographical Society of America at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, October 18, 1904 - October 14, 2004 - A Joint Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America and the St. Louis Rare Book Librarians Group, Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri—St. Louis, and Washington University Libraries Department of Special Collections

7th ISKO-Spain Conference - The human dimension of knowledge organisation - Barcelona, Spain - 6-8 July 2005 - The focus of the conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organisation and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or internet services, databases and digital libraries

In a ceremony in the State Librarian's office in Sacramento on August 2, 2004, Susan Hildreth was officially sworn-in as the new the State Librarian of California

Netspeed 2004 will be held October 21 - 23, 2004 at The Glenmore Inn, Calgary, Canada. Conference brochure is now available

Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Fall 2004 Meeting - Open Access: Removing the Barriers - September 19-21, 2004 - Phoenix, Arizona

Emerald's Journals of the Week for August 9 are Journal of Economic Studies and Personnel Review

The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is proposing to amend its regulations to permit the Library of Congress to record unpublished radio and other audio and audiovisual transmission programs. The Copyright Office regulations already provide for the Library of Congress to obtain copies of unpublished television transmission programs, either by recording fixations or by demanding copies in the form of a transfer, loan or sale at cost. This revised regulation makes similar provisions for audio transmission programs and includes transmission programs made available by radio broadcasts and by digital communications networks such as the Internet. Comments are due by September 7, 2004

Eurotoolbox: Promoting European-language material in libraries - 28 September 2004 - Goethe-Institut London

The American Dental Education Association has announced that the Journal of Dental Education will now be published online, in addition to being available in print. A free trial period for access to the JDE Online will be available until October 1, 2004

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced its 2005 journal prices

The Society for General Microbiology has announced its 2005 journal prices

The Directory of Open Access Journals now lists 1149 journals. Currently 316 journals are searchable on article level. 58551 articles are included

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of board games. Answers here:

1. In which board game do players progress by correctly answering questions on geography, entertainment, history, art and literature, science and nature, and sport and leisure?
2. In which board game do you try to get the opposing king into a position called "checkmate"?
3. In which board game can players advance rapidly up ladders?
4. Which well-known game was invented in 1931 by a New York architect, Alfred M. Butts?
5. Which game uses a specially marked board divided by a space, called the bar, into two tables, each of which has 12 alternately coloured points or triangular spaces?
6. Is the national game of Japan called "mah-jong" or "go"?
7. Which board game was devised in the USA in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow, using the street names of Atlantic City?
8. What shape is the board used in Chinese checkers (or chequers)?
9. Which board game using counters and dice has a name which is Latin for "I play"?
10. Name four of the six characters (their names representing their colours) in the game of Cluedo (known in North America as "Clue")

open-ils.org - information central for the development effort of an open source Intregrated Library System (ILS). This currently unnamed ILS is being developed and maintained by the Georgia Public Library Service for use by the Georgia Library PINES Program, a consortium of 249 public libraries. This software can be downloaded for free, and anyone can contribute to development efforts

Nature Publishing Group has announced the launch of its newest collection of RSS newsfeeds that delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists' desktops. All Nature-branded journals in the life sciences now have associated RSS newsfeeds with rich metadata, while other Nature-branded and NPG titles are slated soon to follow

BioMed Central has announced that it is to consult with librarians and funding bodies about future mechanisms for funding Open Access publishing. The consultation workshop will take place in London on 31 August. The conclusions of the meeting will be published in September

Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission. Copyscape will also show you who is quoting your site

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, July 29-August 4, are now available

Ovid Technologies and SIRC have announced that they will provide free access to SIRC SportDiscus, a premier sports medicine database, to physicians, coaches, athletes and sports administrators throughout the Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece

The Electronic Document Systems Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the document communications industry, has announced the creation of an industry resource designed to provide access to pertinent research, with educational value, from sources within the industry

Entrez is a new utility which enables simultaneous searching of PubMed, PubMed Central, OMIM, online books and other specialty databases. From The National Center for Biotechnology Information

The World Almanac E-Newsletter - Volume 4, Number 8, August 2004 is now available

Archivist of the United States, John W. Carlin, has announced the two companies that will lead the way in designing a technological solution to the challenge of preserving electronic information across space and time. These design contracts are valued at $20.1 million. At the end of the one-year design competition, The National Archives will select one of these two contractors to build the Electronic Records Archives, a revolutionary system that will capture electronic information, regardless of its format, save it permanently, and make it accessible on whatever hardware or software is currently in use

Iron Ladies: Women in Thatcher's Britain - 21 October 2004 to 2 April 2005 - This ground-breaking exhibition considers the impact of Thatcherism on British women in the 1980s. Cold war ideology, political and social protest and the changing status of women in the workforce will all be examined, alongside consideration of Margaret Thatcher's experiences as Britain's first female prime minister and her subsequent legacy for women and the women’s movement - The Women's Library, London, UK

New professional training courses from the British Universities Film & Video Council have been announced

Professional Writing for Librarians - ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum Course August 23-September 24, 2004

Developed at James Madison University, the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) software brings the digital image library into the teaching and learning process

The SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #76 - August 2, 2004 now available

The Natural History Museum in London, UK has received £5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to build the Darwin Centre Phase Two. The Darwin Centre, built in two phases, is a world first in science communication where visitors can see behind the scenes, question Museum scientists about their work and discover how collections are used for research into important issues like climate change and disease prevention

Hodder Arnold Journals 2005 price list now available

Taylor & Francis has announced the launch of its Newsletter for Librarians and Information Professionals. Published on a quarterly basis, the Newsletter will bring updates on initiatives at T&F, plus news on topical issues. The first issue will be published September 2004

The 2004 American Printing History Association conference will be held September 30-October 1 at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, focusing on the topic of illustration. Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration will be the 28th annual conference of APHA, and will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of renowned artist and wood engraver John DePol

Radical Reference is a service provided by librarians from all over the United States to give assistance to demonstrators at the Republican National Convention in New York City, August 29-September 2, 2004. They will answer your reference questions via blog, e-mail, chat, and in the street

LACASIS 2004 Fall Workshop - Balancing Access, Privacy and Security in Your Orgnization - October 1, 2004 - Pomona, California

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2004 - October 25-27 2004 - Baltimore, MD - Call for papers now available

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, August 2004: Festivals

Off the shelf: a workshop on the provision and use of e-books in libraries, resource centres and information services - 13-15 December 2004 - Cape Town, South Africa

Emerald's Journals of the Week for August 2 are International Journal of Social Economics and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management

Presentations from the WILSWorld Conference 2004 - Madison, Wisconsin - July 27-28 2004 - are now available